By The Canadian Press

Belgium, Germany and Croatia to play group games in Canada at 2026 World Cup

Dec 6, 2025 | 10:03 AM

TORONTO — Germany, Belgium and Croatia are among the teams that will play games in Canada in group play at next summer’s FIFA World Cup.

The full schedule of the expanded 48-team, 104-game tournament was announced Saturday in Washington D.C.

Canada is staging 13 games, seven in Vancouver and six in Toronto. Three of those games are in the knockout rounds.

Toronto will host Ghana versus Panama (June 17, Group L), Germany versus the Ivory Coast (June 20, Group E), Panama versus Croatia (June 23, Group L) and Senegal versus a playoff winner — Iraq, Bolivia or Suriname — (June 26, Group I).

Vancouver will host Australia versus a European playoff survivor (June 13, Group D) and New Zealand versus Egypt and Belgium (June 21 and 26, Group G).

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As one of the co-hosts, Canada’s schedule had been finalized with Friday’s draw.

The Canadian men will host a team from the European playoffs, with No. 12 Italy one of the four teams involved, on June 12 in Toronto before heading west to Vancouver, where they will face No. 51 Qatar on June 18 and No. 17 Switzerland on June 24.

Both Vancouver games are at B.C. Place Stadium.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 6, 2025.

The Canadian Press