{"id":763299,"date":"2026-07-14T23:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763299\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T23:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:45:08","slug":"world-cup-2026-half-time-for-final-to-last-up-to-25-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763299\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Half-time for final to last up to 25 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The half-time break in Sunday’s World Cup final is expected to last between 20 and 25 minutes.<\/p>\n

An 11-minute Super Bowl-style show, co-headlined by Madonna, Shakira and K-pop boy band BTS,<\/a> will take place during the interval at New York New Jersey Stadium.<\/p>\n

While sources within World Cup organisers Fifa suggest the break will be around 20 minutes, it is understood that one option is for the normal 15-minute half-time break and then the planned 11-minute show.<\/p>\n

The laws of the game, governed by Ifab (the International Football Association Board), state that players are entitled to a half-time break “not exceeding 15 minutes”.<\/p>\n

Half-time of last year’s Club World Cup final, also organised by Fifa and held in New Jersey, lasted a total of 24 minutes due to a performance featuring Coldplay, J Balvin, Doja Cat, Tems and Emmanuel Kelly.<\/p>\n

Justin Bieber was last week added<\/a> to the bill for Sunday’s performance which, along with the headliners, also includes Burna Boy, Gustavo Dudamel and the PS22 Chorus featuring Coldplay, with singer Chris Martin having curated the show.<\/p>\n

The World Cup final will kick-off at 15:00 local time (20:00 BST) and there will be a closing ceremony starting at 13:30 local time (18:30 BST).<\/p>\n

Tom Cruise, Laura Pausini, Nicole Scherzinger, Robbie Williams and IShowSpeed are set to perform as part of the ceremony, with Jennifer Hudson to sing the United States’ national anthem.<\/p>\n

Spain booked their place in the final by beating France 2-0 in the first semi-final<\/a> in Dallas on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

They will face either England or Argentina, who meet in Atlanta on Wednesday (20:00 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The half-time break in Sunday’s World Cup final is expected to last between 20 and 25 minutes. An…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-763299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}