{"id":101,"date":"2025-11-05T18:02:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T18:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/?p=101"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:20:24","slug":"match_schedule_plan_revealed_for_day_after_draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/news\/match_schedule_plan_revealed_for_day_after_draw\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 World Cup: Match schedule plan revealed for day after draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_244\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244\" src=\"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Wirtz.jpg\" alt=\"Florian Wirtz  in soccer match\" width=\"570\" height=\"321\" class=\"size-full wp-image-244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Wirtz.jpg 570w, https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Wirtz-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florian Wirtz had one of his best games in a Liverpool shirt against West Ham.\u00a0<cite>Alex Pantling\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/p><\/div><br \/>\nFIFA have confirmed details of the match schedule rollout for next year&#8217;s World Cup, with a live broadcast to take place 24 hours after Friday&#8217;s draw.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time at a World Cup draw, the venues and kick-off times for all 104 matches won&#8217;t be released on the same day as we learn the groups &#8212; with FIFA instead placing the games in the best location based on the time zones, of which there are four for the tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The full schedule will be revealed at 12 p.m. EST (5 p.m. GMT), with FIFA saying president Gianni Infantino will be &#8220;joined on stage by FIFA legends&#8221; to go through the games and give analysis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/47165954\/2026-world-cup-match-schedule-plan-revealed-day-draw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA have confirmed details of the match schedule rollout for next year&#8217;s World Cup, with a live broadcast to take place 24 hours after Friday&#8217;s draw. For the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}