A super weekend of live sport will kick off on Saturday starting a mammoth 27 hours of live action, free-to-air, across ITV1, ITV4 and ITVX.<\/p>\n
The stacked weekend includes England\u2019s FIFA World Cup 2026 Quarter Final clash against Norway, live on ITV1 and ITVX from 8:45pm.<\/p>\n
The weekend features action across football, Nations Championship Rugby and ITV Racing: Live from Newmarket.<\/p>\n
Six back to back Nations Championship Rugby matches will take place on Saturday, starting at 6am on ITV1 with New Zealand v Italy and finishing on ITV4 with Argentina v Wales at 7:30pm.<\/p>\n
ITV\u2019s Round of 16 FIFA World Cup 2026 fixtures reached the highest UK broadcasting average across all four matches, with 4.2 million viewers. The two biggest matches on ITV were Brazil v Norway and Argentina v Egypt, both of which peaked with 8.5m viewers.<\/p>\n
ITV\u2019s weekend of sport last week reached an incredible 17.1 million viewers.<\/p>\n
The peak of\u00a016.4 million viewers for England\u2019s win against Croatia, remains the highest rated match of the tournament so far.<\/p>\n
A full rundown of fixtures, channels and times below:<\/p>\n
ITV1<\/p>\n
Nations Championship Rugby: New Zealand vs Italy coverage from 0600 kick off\u00a0 0610Nations Championship Rugby: Australia vs France coverage from 0810 kick off 0840Nations Championship Rugby: Japan vs Ireland coverage from 1040 kick off 1110Nations Championship Rugby: Fiji vs England coverage from 1320 kick off 1410Nations Championship Rugby: South Africa vs Scotland coverage from 1620 kick off 1640FIFA World Cup: Norway vs England coverage from 2045 kick off 2200FIFA World Cup: Argentina vs Switzerland coverage from 1.15am kick off 2am\u00a0<\/p>\n
ITV4<\/p>\n
ITV Racing: The Opening Show – live from 0930ITV Racing: Live from Newmarket – live from 1330Nations Championship Rugby: Argentina vs Wales – live from 1930, kick off 2010<\/p>\n
-ENDS-<\/p>\n
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