Welcome to day five 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.
Germany predictably hammered Curacao on Sunday, a 7-1 victory with Newcastle United pair Malick Thiaw and Nick Woltemade unused subs.
However, it looks like they won’t find things so easy in their other two Group E games.
Ivory Coast and Ecuador both looked good in their match in the early hours of Monday (UK time).
It somehow stayed goalless (four times the woodwork was hit including three times by Ecuador) until the 90th minute when Man U’s Amad Diallo scored a late winner.
In between those two matches in Group E, there was the opening Group F game.
A dour first half was then transformed into an excellent second half as the Netherlands twice took the lead through Premier League pair Van Dijk and Summerville, only for Japan to come back and equalise both times, the final goal of the match and second equaliser coming in the 89th minute (That match played at the Dallas Stadium, pictured below).
That then set it up for Sweden to go top of Group F as their 3am Monday (UK time) kick off saw Graham Potter’s side move top of the group. A 5-1 hammering of Tunisia with Svanberg, Isak, Gyokeres and Ayari (2) getting the goals for Sweden, Newcastle’s Anthony Elanga brought on in the 91st minute with the score 4-1. Rekik had given Tunisia brief hope when reducing the lead to 2-1 just before half-time.
That makes it 38 goals scored so far in the opening 12 World Cup matches at an average of 3.16 goals per game.
This 2026 World Cup still in track to have the highest goals per game of any of these modern day World Cups. Since the 1950s, the 1970 World Cup getting closest to averaging three goals per match, falling just short with a 2.97 goals average per game across the tournament.
The next six matches to be played across Monday and Tuesday are detailed below, all kick-offs are shown as UK times and with the channel that is showing them.
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 1 Switzerland 1 Group B
Brazil 1 Morocco 1 Group C
Sunday 14 June
Haiti 0 Scotland 1 Group C
Australia 2 Turkey 0 Group D
Germany 7 Curacao 1 Group E
Netherlands 2 Japan 2 Group F
Monday 15 June
Ivory Coast 1 Ecuador 0 Group E
Sweden 5 Tunisia 1 Group F
Spain v Cape Verde 5pm (ITV1) Group H
Belgium v Egypt 8pm (BBC1) Group G
Saudi Arabia v Uruguay 11pm (ITV1) Group H
Tuesday 16 June
Iran v New Zealand 2am (BBC1) Group G
France v Senegal 8pm (BBC1) Group I
Iraq v Norway 11pm (BBC1) Group I