World Cup 2026

[Puckoon]

Jonathan Ross and Cardinal O'Faidgh came to me in a dream last night, and well anyway - I have a tenner on England Armagh double this summer at 37-1.

[Blowitupref]

Irish kick off times.

Thursday 11th June

20:00 Mexico v South Africa


Friday 12th June:

03:00 - South Korea vs Czechia
20:00 - Canada vs Bosnia & Herzegovina

Saturday 13th June:

02:00 - USA vs Paraguay
20:00 - Qatar vs Switzerland
23:00 - Brazil vs Morocco

Sunday 14th June:

02:00 - Haiti vs Scotland
05:00 - Australia vs Turkey
18:00 - Germany vs Curaçao
21:00 - Netherlands vs Japan

Monday 15th June:

00:00 - Ivory Coast vs Ecuador
03:00 - Sweden vs Tunisia
17:00 - Spain vs Cape Verde
20:00 - Belgium vs Egypt
23:00 - Saudi Arabia vs Uruguay

Tuesday 16th June:

02:00 - Iran vs New Zealand
20:00 - France vs Senegal
23:00 - Iraq vs Norway

Wednesday 17th June:

02:00 - Argentina vs Algeria
05:00 - Austria vs Jordan
18:00 - Portugal vs DR Congo
21:00 - England vs Croatia

Thursday 18th June:

00:00 - Ghana vs Panama
03:00 - Uzbekistan vs Colombia
17:00 - Czechia vs South Africa
20:00 - Switzerland vs Bosnia & Herzegovina
23:00 - Canada vs Qatar

Friday 19th June:

02:00 - Mexico vs South Korea
20:00 - USA vs Australia
23:00 - Scotland vs Morocco

Saturday 20th June:

01:30 - Brazil vs Haiti
04:00 - Turkey vs Paraguay
18:00 - Netherlands vs Sweden
21:00 - Germany vs Ivory Coast

Sunday 21st June:

01:00 - Ecuador vs Curaçao
05:00 - Tunisia vs Japan
17:00 - Spain vs Saudi Arabia
20:00 - Belgium vs Iran
23:00 - Uruguay vs Cape Verde

Monday 22nd June:

02:00 - New Zealand vs Egypt
18:00 - Argentina vs Austria
22:00 - France vs Iraq

Tuesday 23rd June:

01:00 - Norway vs Senegal
04:00 - Jordan vs Algeria
18:00 - Portugal vs Uzbekistan
21:00 - England vs Ghana

Wednesday 24th June:

00:00 - Panama vs Croatia
03:00 - Colombia vs DR Congo
20:00 - Bosnia & Herzegovina vs Qatar
20:00 - Switzerland vs Canada
23:00 - Morocco vs Haiti
23:00 - Scotland vs Brazil

Thursday 25th June:

02:00 - Czechia vs Mexico
02:00 - South Africa vs South Korea
21:00 - Curaçao vs Ivory Coast
21:00 - Ecuador vs Germany

Friday 26th June:

00:00 - Japan vs Sweden
00:00 - Tunisia vs Netherlands
03:00 - Paraguay vs Australia
03:00 - Turkey vs USA
20:00 - Norway vs France
20:00 - Senegal vs Iraq

Saturday 27th June:

01:00 - Cape Verde vs Saudi Arabia
01:00 - Uruguay vs Spain
04:00 - Egypt vs Iran
04:00 - New Zealand vs Belgium
22:00 - Croatia vs Ghana
22:00 - Panama vs England

Sunday 28th June:

00:30 - Colombia vs Portugal
00:30 - DR Congo vs Uzbekistan
03:00 - Algeria vs Austria
03:00 - Jordan vs Argentina
20:00 - Round of 32

Monday 29th June:

18:00 - Round of 32
21:30 - Round of 32

Tuesday 30th June:

02:00 - Round of 32
18:00 - Round of 32
22:00 - Round of 32

Wednesday 1st July:

02:00 - Round of 32
17:00 - Round of 32
21:00 - Round of 32

Thursday 2nd July:

01:00 - Round of 32
20:00 - Round of 32

Friday 3rd July:

00:00 - Round of 32
04:00 - Round of 32
19:00 - Round of 32
23:00 - Round of 32

Saturday 4th July:

02:30 - Round of 32
18:00 - Round of 16
22:00 - Round of 16

Sunday 5th July:

21:00 - Round of 16

Monday 6th July:

01:00 - Round of 16
20:00 - Round of 16

Tuesday 7th July:

01:00 - Round of 16
17:00 - Round of 16
21:00 - Round of 16

Thursday 9th July:

21:00 - Quarter Final

Friday 10th July:

20:00 - Quarter Final

Saturday 11th July:

22:00 - Quarter Final

Sunday 12th July:

02:00 - Quarter Final

Tuesday 14th July:

20:00 - Semi Final

Wednesday 15th July:

20:00 - Semi Final

Saturday 18th July:

22:00 - Third Place Play Off

Sunday 19th July:

20:00 - Final

All games live on RTÉ

[thewobbler]

Seeing a list that long is just another reminder that our festival of football has become a festival of greed, with football providing the window dressing.

I see FIFA has this week banned anyone from bringing water bottles into any stadium. They're citing player safety from missiles as their reason.

Saudi, Qatar, Russia, USA and FIFA, they're all in it together, determined to f**k everybody and everything in pursuit of another billion.

[Captain Obvious]

Sunday 28th June:

20:00 - Round of 32

When I might start watching or paying much attention.

[onefineday]

Seeing a list that long is just another reminder that our festival of football has become a festival of greed, with football providing the window dressing.

I see FIFA has this week banned anyone from bringing water bottles into any stadium. They're citing player safety from missiles as their reason.

Saudi, Qatar, Russia, USA and FIFA, they're all in it together, determined to f**k everybody and everything in pursuit of another billion.

Hard to argue with that. The 16 extra teams and extra round dilutes the product and leads to saturation - that said, it's amazing for the likes of cape Verde and curacao to get their to the big stage!
Re the water situation, it's similar to most stadia to some degree and the same rationale is always applied. That said, I see more and more venues are now providing free refill facilities as part of their sustainability credentials. You'd hope (but suspect they don't) that venues have will have such facilities.

[statto]

Seeing a list that long is just another reminder that our festival of football has become a festival of greed, with football providing the window dressing.

I see FIFA has this week banned anyone from bringing water bottles into any stadium. They're citing player safety from missiles as their reason.

Saudi, Qatar, Russia, USA and FIFA, they're all in it together, determined to f**k everybody and everything in pursuit of another billion.

Hard to argue with that. The 16 extra teams and extra round dilutes the product and leads to saturation - that said, it's amazing for the likes of cape Verde and curacao to get their to the big stage!
Re the water situation, it's similar to most stadia to some degree and the same rationale is always applied. That said, I see more and more venues are now providing free refill facilities as part of their sustainability credentials. You'd hope (but suspect they don't) that venues have will have such facilities.

Makes you wonder how Barca fans where able to bring a Pigs head into the stadium to throw at Figo!

[Mourne Red]

Sunday 12th July:

02:00 - Quarter Final


What a stupid time to put a 1/4 final on at.

[snoopdog]

Sunday 12th July:

02:00 - Quarter Final


What a stupid time to put a 1/4 final on at.

Would you not be up getting the buckfast inta ye for the trip to Scarva.

[statto]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cy828v7r5ydo

[Mourne Red]

Sunday 12th July:

02:00 - Quarter Final


What a stupid time to put a 1/4 final on at.

Would you not be up getting the buckfast inta ye for the trip to Scarva.

Got lost once trying to find Aghadergs pitch and ended up in Scarva.. I don't think I'd be too welcome there that night 😂

[Tony Baloney]

Have zero excitement in the build-up to this. I'm sure I'll watch all of the business end of it but there is some dross to get through before that. We'll also have to look at Infantino snuggling up to Trump for a few weeks. 

[johnnycool]

Sunday 28th June:

20:00 - Round of 32

When I might start watching or paying much attention.

Same here.

[Tony Baloney]

Sunday 28th June:

20:00 - Round of 32

When I might start watching or paying much attention.

Same here.

Nearly 3 weeks deep to get to that point!

[Baile Brigín 2]

Seeing a list that long is just another reminder that our festival of football has become a festival of greed, with football providing the window dressing.

I see FIFA has this week banned anyone from bringing water bottles into any stadium. They're citing player safety from missiles as their reason.

Saudi, Qatar, Russia, USA and FIFA, they're all in it together, determined to f**k everybody and everything in pursuit of another billion.

Hard to argue with that. The 16 extra teams and extra round dilutes the product and leads to saturation - that said, it's amazing for the likes of cape Verde and curacao to get their to the big stage!
Re the water situation, it's similar to most stadia to some degree and the same rationale is always applied. That said, I see more and more venues are now providing free refill facilities as part of their sustainability credentials. You'd hope (but suspect they don't) that venues have will have such facilities.

Makes you wonder how Barca fans where able to bring a Pigs head into the stadium to throw at Figo!

In a drum apparantly

[tyroneStatto]

Inter fans throwing the moped in the San Siri 25 years ago would be hard to top.