Welcome to day three of the 2026 World Cup finals.
We are aiming to bring you a daily round up of the matches to come and recent results.
There are 48 countries at these 2026 World Cup finals, the most there has ever been. The matches to take place across Mexico, Canada and the USA.
The 48 teams are divided into 12 groups of four, with the top two in each group automatically going through and the eight best performing teams who finish third in their groups.
So only 16 of the 48 countries will be knocked out after the 72 group games have all played out, with the other 32 going through to the knockout stages.
An excellent start to the 2026 World Cup finals and any fears of boring cagey goalless draws haven’t proved to be the reality. Only a small sample but seven of the eight teams have scored at least one goal and the four matches have produced 12 goals, a very healthy average of three per game.
With Mexico having opened the tournament, it was the turn of the other two co-hosts in the latest matches these past 24 hours.
I was really impressed by Canada and they just need to convert more of their chances. The Bosnia-Herzegovina goal led a charmed life and Canada should have easily scored three or four, as only poor finishing and a couple of amazing clearances prevented a comfortable victory. Bosnia-Herzegovina scored from a badly defended set-piece midway through the first half, Lukic with the goal. Canada were made to wait but Larin got an equaliser on 78 minutes and though they should have had all three points, at least the point got the co-hosts off the mark.
Qatar play Switzerland tonight in the other Group B match and Canada should progress comfortably from the group still, a win against Qatar would be enough and no reason why they can’t give the Swiss a good game as well.
The tournament organisers will be buoyant after the USA got their World Cup off to a dream start. They absolutely battered Paraguay 4-1 and took the lead via an own goal on seven minutes, then Balogun added anther two to have them cruising at 3-0 by the break. Mauricio pulled it back to 3-1 on 73 minutes but Reyna scored deep in added time for a dominant 4-1 final scoreline.
Former Newcastle United favourites Miggy Almiron saw his dreams come true with a first ever appearance at a World Cup finals. That though became a nightmare as his team were a poor second best and his night best summed up in the second half when the referee having originally awarded a free-kick for a foul on Miggy, that was then changed to a yellow card for the former NUFC player as he was shown to have dived by VAR.
The USA now look to have all but qualified for the knockouts, Australia and Turkey are the other two teams in Group D and they meet on Sunday.
The next six matches to be played across Saturday and Sunday are detailed below, all kick-offs are shown as UK times and with the channel that is showing them.
Enjoy
Thursday 11 June
Mexico 2 South Africa 0 Group A
Friday 12 June
South Korea 2 Czech Republic 1 Group A
Canada 1 Bosnia-Herzegovina 1 Group B
Saturday 13 June
USA 4 Paraguay 1 Group D
Qatar v Switzerland 8pm (ITV1) Group B
Brazil v Morocco 11pm (BBC1) Group C
Sunday 14 June
Haiti v Scotland 2am (BBC1) Group C
Australia v Turkey 5am (ITV1) Group D
Germany v Curacao 6pm (ITV1) Group E
Netherlands v Japan 9pm (ITV1) Group F