Kickoff times are Eastern. Channels, times, and team news confirmed the morning of June 13, 2026.
Day 2 belonged to the hosts. Folarin Balogun scored twice in a ruthless first half as the US beat Paraguay 4-1 in Los Angeles, its biggest World Cup win since 1930, with Christian Pulisic running the show before he came off at halftime as a precaution. Up in Toronto, substitute Cyle Larin equalized in the 78th minute to salvage a 1-1 draw with Bosnia and Herzegovina and earn co-host Canada the first World Cup point in its history.
Today the group stage opens up to three matches, and the headliner is Brazil’s arrival against Morocco, the team that reached the semifinals four years ago. It is also the day yesterday’s warning comes due: only the 3 p.m. opener is on free over-the-air FOX, while the two night games, Brazil included, sit on FS1.
If you are still sorting out your setup, the full how-to-watch guide covers every option from free to zero-hassle. And before the group stage piles up, the 12 players to watch is your cheat sheet for whose names matter.
3 p.m. ET: Qatar vs. Switzerland, FOX
Switzerland start as heavy favorites in what looks like the weakest group in the tournament. They do not blow teams away; they squeeze them, with Granit Xhaka pulling the strings and Breel Embolo holding the line up top. Qatar are the more interesting story. Four years after a miserable run as hosts, when they lost all three and never scored, they are back as a team that had to earn its place, and Akram Afif on the break is more or less the whole plan. These two have never played each other before.
How to watch: FOX, free over the air with an antenna, and the only one of today’s three games you can get that way in English. Telemundo and Peacock carry it in Spanish.
6 p.m. ET: Brazil vs. Morocco, FS1
The biggest name in the sport arrives, and for once not as the favorite. This is one of the least-fancied Brazil sides in living memory. Carlo Ancelotti is missing Rodrygo, Éder Militão and Wesley to injury, and Neymar, a surprise inclusion in the squad at 34, sits this one out while his calf heals. The weight falls on Vinícius Júnior, who has terrorized La Liga for years without ever quite carrying it into a Brazil shirt. The New York area has been a sea of yellow all week, so MetLife should feel a lot like home.
Morocco are nobody’s idea of a soft landing. This is the team that bounced Spain and Portugal in 2022 on its way to becoming the first African nation to reach a World Cup semifinal, and most of that group is back, now wearing the African champions’ crown. Achraf Hakimi is the man to track, and his running battle with Vinícius down Brazil’s left is the match inside the match. Brazil are favored. Only just, and not at full strength.
How to watch: FS1, which means FOX One, a live-TV service, or a cable login. Telemundo and Peacock have it in Spanish. There is no free Tubi stream for this one.
9 p.m. ET: Haiti vs. Scotland, FS1
Two long waits end on the same night. Scotland are back at a World Cup for the first time since 1998, a return Scott McTominay sealed with a stoppage-time overhead kick against Denmark, and the Napoli midfielder is the one they lean on. They carry a different kind of history too: Scotland have never once made it out of the group stage at a major tournament, and a slow start against the group’s lightest opponent is precisely how that has bitten them before.
Haiti’s story is the bigger one. This is their first World Cup since 1974, only the second in their history, and they got here while playing every qualifier on the road, unable to host a single match because of the unrest at home. Jean-Ricner Bellegarde of Wolves gives them genuine quality in midfield, and record scorer Duckens Nazon leads the line. The two countries have never met, in anything. A first World Cup point would mean the world to them.
How to watch: FS1 again, so the same drill as the Brazil match: FOX One, a live-TV service, or a cable login. Telemundo and Peacock carry it in Spanish.
The 30-second watch recap
- Spending nothing today: an antenna gets you the 3 p.m. opener on FOX, and Telemundo has all three free in Spanish. The catch, in English, is the two FS1 night games. Brazil and Haiti vs. Scotland have no free option today, and Tubi is not streaming either.
- Every match, cheapest: FOX One at $19.99 a month carries today’s three and all 104.
- Zero hassle: if you already have YouTube TV or another live-TV service, every game is just there. Open the app at 3.
The full guide has the longer version, including the free-trial math.
Tomorrow the slate jumps to five
Sunday is a five-match day, and the two best are free on FOX: Germany open against Curaçao at 1 p.m., then the Netherlands meet Japan at 4 p.m. Curaçao, a Caribbean island of about 150,000, becomes the smallest nation ever to reach a World Cup. The rest are on FS1: Ivory Coast vs. Ecuador at 7 p.m., Sweden vs. Tunisia at 10 p.m., and Australia vs. Türkiye, which technically opens the day overnight at 12 a.m.
The headliners you have been waiting for arrive next week. Kylian Mbappé and France get going against Senegal on Tuesday afternoon, Lionel Messi and the defending champions open their title defense against Algeria that night, and Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal follow against DR Congo on Wednesday.
For today, it is a giant in New Jersey and two countries that waited decades to get back here. Worth staying in for.
