{"id":54539,"date":"2025-12-07T15:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/54539\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:16:23","slug":"see-which-teams-will-play-in-philly-during-2026-fifa-world-cup-nbc-sports-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/54539\/","title":{"rendered":"See which teams will play in Philly during 2026 FIFA World Cup \u2013 NBC Sports Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia is one of the host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the city has now learned which teams will play here.<\/p>\n

The city of brotherly love will host five Group Stage matches \u2014 June 14, June 19, June 22, June 25, and June 27 \u2014 and a Round of 16 match on the semiquincentennial, July 4, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

FIFA officials announced on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, which teams will be playing in Philadelphia<\/a> during the Group Stage matches: <\/p>\n

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Sunday, June 14 – Ivory Coast vs. Ecuador<\/p>\n

Friday, June 19 – Brazil vs. Haiti<\/p>\n

Monday, June 22 – France vs.\u00a0winner of the Inter-Confederation Play-off Path 2<\/p>\n

Thursday, June 25 – Cura\u00e7ao vs. Ivory Coast<\/p>\n

Saturday, June 27 – Croatia vs. Ghana<\/p>\n

Saturday, July 4 – Round of 16 (W74 vs. W77)<\/p>\n

The\u00a02026 FIFA World Cup<\/a>\u00a0draw took place on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, and determined the 12 groups for the quadrennial tournament<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“This match schedule is exciting, competitive, and wonderfully reflective of the diversity of Philadelphia,\u201d said\u00a0Meg Kane, Host City Executive\/CEO of Philadelphia Soccer 2026. \u201cTo welcome elite teams such as Brazil, France, and Croatia as well as hosting a matchup between a first-time qualifier in Curacao and Cote d\u2019Ivoire who returns to the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 12 years, shows the incredible range of fans that will follow this tournament. Now, the work begins to help prepare Philadelphia for the arrival of these fans in June and to connect with these national federations to ensure an exceptional fan experience for all who come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia is one of the host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the city has now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2013,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-54539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}