{"id":327322,"date":"2025-12-05T16:08:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327322\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:08:22","slug":"canada-awaits-opponents-in-group-b-at-2026-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327322\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada awaits opponents in Group B at 2026 FIFA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada\u2019s opponents in Group B will soon be revealed for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 2026 FIFA World Cup draw will start with the non-host teams in Pot A being sorted into groups, and continue with teams from Pot B joining those groups, followed by Pot C and Pot D.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/live\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/live\">Watch coverage LIVE NOW on TSN, TSN.ca and the TSN YouTube page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FUMSZZQFT5G6ROC4NXTVUXJNWM.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>2026 FIFA World Cup Group B (TSN) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada will play its first match of the World Cup against their Pot 4 opponent on June 12 in Toronto. The squad will then relocate to Vancouver for matches on June 18 against the Pot 3 opponent and June 24 against their Pot 2 opponent, with both of those games at BC Place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The group winners, runners-up and the eight best third-place teams will all move into the knockout round of the tournament, which begins with a Round of 32 under the new 48-team format.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada currently sits at No. 27 in the FIFA Rankings, which was the lowest among Pot A teams. The United States entered the draw ranked 14th, with fellow co-hosts Mexico ranked 15th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 2026 tournament represents another chance for Canada to earn their first-ever points at a World Cup. The country went winless in 1986 and 2022, but have their highest-ever expectations under head coach Jesse Marsch this time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s opponents in Group B will soon be revealed for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The 2026 FIFA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-327322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}