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2026 World Cup

By StanSP, in World Cup 2026

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Super_horns

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FIFA World Cup TV picks confirmed:

Group Stage


Opening match - ITV
England v Croatia - ITV
England v Ghana - BBC
England v Panama - ITV

Scotland v Haiti - BBC
Scotland v Morocco - ITV
Scotland v Brazil - BBC

Wales/NI - 1 match BBC, 2 matches ITV if qualify
ROI - 2 matches BBC, 1 ITV if qualify

 

How the fixtures are selected 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn81y63wn27o

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filbertway

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2 hours ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

Friendlies confirmed in March at Wembley.

 

Uruguay (Friday 27th)

Japan (Tuesday 31st) 

Exactly the kind of fixtures that will prepare us for Ghana, Croatia and Panama

Thefox81

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9 minutes ago, filbertway said:

Exactly the kind of fixtures that will prepare us for Ghana, Croatia and Panama

Thought they were an odd choice myself. Surely a central american team and an african one?

filbertway

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4 minutes ago, Thefox81 said:

Thought they were an odd choice myself. Surely a central american team and an african one?

Yeah you'd have thought so wouldn't you haha. I was being extremely sarcastic in my original message :D 

 

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I've never really been sure how beneficial it can actually be to arrange friendlies against teams because they're geographically close to the ones you've got in the groups. Say we were playing one against Nigeria - what would that actually tell us about what it's going to be like to play against Ghana? They've got a different manager and a completely different set of players. Are we more likely to beat Panama if we play a friendly against Honduras instead of Japan? It's not like there's a really strictly defined Central American or West African way of playing football and if you think about a team doing the reverse and e.g. trying to get a feel for playing against England by arranging a friendly against Scotland, I don't know that it would make much sense.

 

If we were playing away then I could see the logic in picking geographically to try and recreate what the conditions will be like, but they're both at home. A couple of decent teams to actually give us a test rather than two minnows we wouldn't really learn anything from strolling past makes sense to me.

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filbertway

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10 minutes ago, Guest said:

I've never really been sure how beneficial it can actually be to arrange friendlies against teams because they're geographically close to the ones you've got in the groups. Say we were playing one against Nigeria - what would that actually tell us about what it's going to be like to play against Ghana? They've got a different manager and a completely different set of players. Are we more likely to beat Panama if we play a friendly against Honduras instead of Japan? It's not like there's a really strictly defined Central American or West African way of playing football and if you think about a team doing the reverse and e.g. trying to get a feel for playing against England by arranging a friendly against Scotland, I don't know that it would make much sense.

 

If we were playing away then I could see the logic in picking geographically to try and recreate what the conditions will be like, but they're both at home. A couple of decent teams to actually give us a test rather than two minnows we wouldn't really learn anything from strolling past makes sense to me.

 

You make a very fair point to be fair, I'd argue we don't really need to prepare for Panama anyway lol

 

And Ghana, I'm just guessing here but I imagine most are plying their trade in Europe anyway.

 

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Stuntman_Mike

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1 hour ago, filbertway said:

Exactly the kind of fixtures that will prepare us for Ghana, Croatia and Panama

We do have another two games in June too, so maybe they will be.

 

Personally I think they're good choices, I'd just have played one away from Wembley. 

Stuntman_Mike

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4 minutes ago, VLC86 said:

Outrageous match price tickets for all qualifying countries. 

My pal is registering an interest for us today, just to see what we're looking at to price it up. Not sure it's going to be doable lol

 

2 nights in Boston coming up close to £500 cheapest on booking.com for England's game v Ghana.

MPH

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2 hours ago, Samilktray said:

200 dollars to be in a stadium full of Americans. Sounds awful 

200?
 

you mean the ticket prices? BBC is running an article that says the cheapest World Cup ticket is £3100

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VLC86

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1 hour ago, MPH said:

200?
 

you mean the ticket prices? BBC is running an article that says the cheapest World Cup ticket is £3100

 That’s for the final. £200 is the group stages

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VLC86

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6 hours ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

My pal is registering an interest for us today, just to see what we're looking at to price it up. Not sure it's going to be doable lol

 

2 nights in Boston coming up close to £500 cheapest on booking.com for England's game v Ghana.

Yeah, you won’t get cheaper than that on there at the minute but Air B n B you might, could also stay outside of Boston and travel in.

Trav Le Bleu

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4 hours ago, VLC86 said:

 That’s for the final. £200 is the group stages

Thought it was £500, which was what a final ticket cost in Qatar..

 

Can't see many Mexicans paying that.

 

Hopefully empty stadiums, or at least quiet ones full of the prawn sandwich brigade.

 

Edit: cheapest tickets are about £130, depending on game. The most expensive tier of tickets for the Croatia game are over £500, which I guess is what I saw reported.

 

There's quite a detailed report here...

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c80x38e04yro

 

If England were to get through to the final (I know, I know) and you went to every game, it would cost over £5000, if you only bought the cheapest ticket.

 

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VLC86

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5 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Thought it was £500, which was what a final ticket cost in Qatar..

 

Can't see many Mexicans paying that.

 

Hopefully empty stadiums, or at least quiet ones full of the prawn sandwich brigade.

 

Edit: cheapest tickets are about £130, depending on game. The most expensive tier of tickets for the Croatia game are over £500, which I guess is what I saw reported.

 

There's quite a detailed report here...

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c80x38e04yro

 

If England were to get through to the final (I know, I know) and you went to every game, it would cost over £5000, if you only bought the cheapest ticket.

 

Yep, complete shambles all round. I’ll probably be paying more for every group game than I did for 5 tickets, including the semi and final, in Germany.

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