RTVE will broadcast the 2026 World Cup to be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico in the summer of 2026 after the agreement reached with FIFA. It is the first time that three countries share the organization of a World Cup.
The competition will be held from June 11 to July 19, 2026 and it will be the longest in historysince 48 teams from the five continents will compete for the first time, instead of the 32 of the previous ones. They will be disputed 104 games in total, in eleven cities in the United States, three in Mexico and two in Canada62% more than in the previous World Cup, which had 64 games.
RTVE will broadcast one match for each day of the competitionhighlighting all those played by the Spanish team and the most important of the tournament. Among them, the party opening on June 11 from the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City with the debut of the Mexican team, the main round of 16 and quarterfinal matches, the two semifinals and the matches for third and fourth place and the end of July 19 at MetLife Stadium in New York.
He final draw To define the composition of the 12 groups of the World Cup, the December 5 at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Spain leads its qualifying group after the two large victories in Bulgaria and Türkiye and hopes to be one of the seeded teams.
Spain closed 2024 as the third team in the FIFA ranking after Argentina and France and is one of the 8 teams on the planet that have won the World Cup along with Brazil, Germany, Italy, Argentina, France, Uruguay and England since its first edition in 1930.
