{"id":514990,"date":"2026-07-08T01:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T01:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/514990\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T01:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T01:14:15","slug":"fifa-world-cup-quarterfinal-fixtures-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/514990\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup: Quarterfinal fixtures confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FIFA World Cup has been whittled down to its final eight teams, with the quarterfinal match-ups now locked in after a dramatic round of 16.<\/p>\n

This year’s 48-team tournament featured a new round of 32 knockout stage before the traditional round of 16, where several heavyweight nations saw their World Cup campaigns come to an end. <\/p>\n

Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s<\/a> Portugal fell short to Spain, Norway ended Brazil\u2019s campaign<\/a> and Neymar\u2019s hopes of finally lifting the World Cup trophy, and Belgium thrashed hosts USA<\/a> in a match marred by red-card controversy.<\/a><\/p>\n

England<\/a> ended co-hosts Mexico\u2019s tournament in a thrilling encounter, while Argentina survived<\/a> another elimination scare, producing a late comeback to knock out Egypt and keep their title hopes alive.<\/p>\n

Now, just eight teams remain in contention to become world champions. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the full list of quarterfinal fixtures (all times NZT), with the semifinals to follow next week. All games can be viewed on TVNZ+<\/a> with an event pass, with select games also free to view on TVNZ 1.<\/p>\n

Quarterfinal fixtures <\/p>\n

Friday July 10 <\/p>\n

8.00am – France v Morocco – Boston <\/p>\n

Saturday 11 July<\/p>\n

7.00am – Spain v Belgium – Los Angeles <\/p>\n

The winners of these two ties will meet in the first semifinal on Wednesday, July 15<\/p>\n

\"Norway's<\/p>\n

Norway’s Erling Haaland (9) celebrates with Andreas Schjelderup (21) after scoring their second goal during the World Cup round of 16 (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Sunday 12 July <\/p>\n

9.00am – Norway v England – Miami <\/p>\n

1.00pm – Argentina v Switzerland – Kansas <\/p>\n

The winners of these two matches will meet in the second semifinal on Thursday, July 16 <\/p>\n

\"Spain's<\/p>\n

Spain’s Lamine Yamal. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

3rd place play-off \u2013 July 19<\/p>\n

Final \u2013 July 20<\/p>\n

Watch all matches at the World Cup with an event pass on TVNZ+<\/a> <\/p>\n

The next match live and free on TVNZ1 and TVNZ+ is Argentina v Switzerland on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FIFA World Cup has been whittled down to its final eight teams, with the quarterfinal match-ups now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[249930,2966,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-514990","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\/514990","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=514990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}