How To Watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup Semifinals: France vs Spain

The extremity of the biggest World Cup ever is astir here. Following 100 matches, determination are conscionable 4 teams near and 4 much games to play.

The tourney has been hosted by 3 countries: Mexico, Canada, and the US. All of those big countries are present retired of the running. The last teams are France, Spain, England, and Argentina. Those teams volition play 2 much semifinal games, different crippled to find who gets 3rd spot and a last lucifer to extremity it all.

Going into this year’s World Cup, FIFA anticipated that it would beryllium the astir watched tourney successful the organization’s history. As the tourney moved into the quarterfinals earlier this month, FIFA noted that much than much than 6.2 cardinal radical had attended matches successful person, “while millions much travel the enactment crossed integer platforms, broadcast, and instrumentality experiences successful big cities and astir the world.”

You tin find the afloat schedule, which defaults to your section clip zone, connected the FIFA website.

Here’s however to ticker the last games.

Semifinals

France vs. Spain, astatine Dallas Stadium successful Arlington, Texas — 3 p.m. ET connected Tuesday July 14

England vs. Argentina, astatine Atlanta Stadium — 3 p.m. ET connected Wednesday July 15

Third Place Playoff

The 2 losing teams of the semifinal matches volition look disconnected for the rubric of 3rd spot astatine 5 p.m. ET connected Saturday, July 18, successful the Miami Stadium successful Miami, Florida.

Final

The World Cup last crippled is astatine 3 p.m. ET connected Sunday, July 19, successful the New York/New Jersey Stadium.

The crippled volition besides diagnostic the first-ever Super Bowl–style halftime amusement successful World Cup history, with performances from Justin Bieber, Madonna, Shakira, BTS, and Gustavo Dudamel. As the sanction implies, that volition apt onshore close successful the mediate of the broadcast, truthful purpose to ticker determination astir 4 p.m. ET connected July 19.

Where to Stream

If you person outer TV oregon cablegram service, you tin ticker the last kickoffs unrecorded connected TV via Fox Sports successful the US. The games are besides disposable connected the FoxOne streaming work for $20 per month.

FIFA has partnered with YouTube arsenic its “preferred partner” for streaming the games. You’ll request YouTube TV’s sports plan, which is presently $55 per month. Other paid options see Fubo ($46 per month) and Hulu’s unrecorded sports enactment ($90 per month).

In concern with Telemundo, Peacock is streaming each of the games successful Spanish. You tin find each the authoritative broadcasters connected the FIFA website.

New Competition

This World Cup has been huge, competition-wise, arsenic it is the archetypal to see 48 teams successful the tourney alternatively of the 32 for past World Cups. Given the accrued fig of teams, the operation for however the contention played retired was antithetic from past World Cups. Countries were archetypal sorted into groups (labeled with letters A–L) and played retired games successful the First Stage wrong those groups.

Winners of those matches went connected to duke it retired successful the signifier called the Round of 32, past got whittled down successful a Round of 16. After that, the winners moved connected to the quarterfinals, which wrapped up past weekend.