{"id":24187,"date":"2026-06-26T22:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/24187\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T22:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:39:19","slug":"kiwis-face-belgium-in-final-group-stage-world-cup-match-at-bc-place-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/24187\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwis face Belgium in final group-stage World Cup match at BC Place | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8211; Vancouver is hosting its fifth and final World Cup group-stage match tonight, with New Zealand facing Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of both sides are hoping their tournament hopes remain alive, with a win for Belgium certain to see them advance to the knockout rounds, and New Zealand likely to do so if they win instead.<\/p>\n<p>Things get more complicated with a draw, and while either side could still advance, it would depend on the outcome of other matches.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s match kicks off at BC Place Stadium at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Police are again reminding people to take transit to the match, which is the only Friday-night fixture for Vancouver this tournament.<\/p>\n<p>BC Place next hosts a round of 32 knockout match involving Switzerland on July 2, before a round of 16 match on July 7.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 26, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER &#8211; Vancouver is hosting its fifth and final World Cup group-stage match tonight, with New Zealand facing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[14281,7,8049,4167,2176,14287,14285,14286,14289,14282,14292,1176,14283,14290,14288,13913,13650,14291,14284],"class_list":["post-24187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-bc-place","tag-belgium","tag-competitions","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-rugby-football-competitions","tag-rugby-league","tag-rugby-league-competitions","tag-rugby-league-international-tournaments","tag-rugby-league-world-cup","tag-single-elimination-tournament","tag-sports","tag-sports-competitions","tag-sports-events","tag-sports-international-tournaments","tag-tournament","tag-vancouver","tag-world-championships-in-football-variants","tag-world-championships-in-rugby-league"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116818815613188955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}