{"id":500217,"date":"2026-06-28T23:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500217\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T23:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:12:14","slug":"fifa-world-cup-all-knockout-stage-fixtures-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500217\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup: All knockout stage fixtures confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FIFA World Cup group stage is over, with the 32 teams advancing to the knockout stage now confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>The 2026 tournament is the first to feature 48 teams, meaning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/06\/25\/what-to-know-world-cup-tiebreakers-and-how-teams-advance-to-knockouts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the knockout rounds<\/a> begin with a round of 32 rather than the traditional round of 16. <\/p>\n<p>The top two teams from each of the 12 groups, along with the eight best third-placed sides, have progressed to the single-elimination stage, where every match is do-or-die.  <\/p>\n<p>All games can be viewed on TVNZ+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with an event pass<\/a>, with select games also free to view on TVNZ 1. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full list of this week&#8217;s matches being played in the US, Mexico and Canada, in NZT. <\/p>\n<p>Fixtures: <\/p>\n<p>Monday 29 June <\/p>\n<p>7:00am &#8211; South Africa vs Canada &#8211; Los Angeles <\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 30 June <\/p>\n<p>5:00am &#8211; Brazil vs Japan &#8211; Houston <\/p>\n<p>8:30am &#8211; Germany vs Paraguay &#8211; Boston <\/p>\n<p>1:00pm &#8211; Netherlands v Morocco &#8211; Monterrey<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 1 July <\/p>\n<p>5:00am &#8211; Ivory Coast vs Norway &#8211; Dallas<\/p>\n<p>9:00am &#8211; France vs Sweden &#8211; New York <\/p>\n<p>1:00pm &#8211; Mexico vs Ecuador &#8211; Mexico City <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/frances-kylian-mbappe-celebrates-after-scoring-the-opening-g-SMYBNRPAMRBJBOHIHZUW3Z2IGM.jpg\" alt=\"France's Kylian Mbappe celebrates after scoring the opening goal of his team during the World Cup Group I match between France and Senegal\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">France&#8217;s Kylian Mbappe celebrates after scoring the opening goal of his team during the World Cup Group I match between France and Senegal (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 2 July <\/p>\n<p>4:00am &#8211; England vs DR Congo &#8211; Atlanta <\/p>\n<p>8:00am &#8211; Belgium vs Senegal &#8211; Seattle <\/p>\n<p>12:00pm &#8211; USA vs Bosnia and Herzegovina &#8211; San Francisco <\/p>\n<p>Friday 3 July<\/p>\n<p>7:00am &#8211;  Spain vs Austria &#8211; Los Angeles <\/p>\n<p>11:00am &#8211; Portugal vs Croatia &#8211; Toronto <\/p>\n<p>3:00pm &#8211; Switzerland vs Algeria &#8211; Vancouver <\/p>\n<p>Saturday 4 July <\/p>\n<p>6:00am &#8211; Australia vs Egypt &#8211; Dallas <\/p>\n<p>10:00am &#8211; Argentina vs Cape Verde &#8211; Miami<\/p>\n<p>1:30pm &#8211; Colombia vs Ghana &#8211; Kansas <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/argentinas-lionel-messi-10-celebrates-after-scoring-the-open-PSNRNW7EE5CSFACU5WCKELVM44.jpg\" alt=\"Argentina's Lionel Messi (10) celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the World Cup Group J soccer match between Argentina and Algeria in Kansas City.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Argentina&#8217;s Lionel Messi (10) celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the World Cup Group J soccer match between Argentina and Algeria in Kansas City. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p>Round of 16 &#8211; July 5-8<\/p>\n<p>Quarter-finals &#8211; July 10-12<\/p>\n<p>Semi-finals &#8211; July 15-16<\/p>\n<p>3rd place play-off &#8211; July 19<\/p>\n<p>Final &#8211; July 20<\/p>\n<p>All games can be watched on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TVNZ+<\/a> with an event pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FIFA World Cup group stage is over, with the 32 teams advancing to the knockout stage now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[249930,2966,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-500217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fifa-info","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}