{"id":615379,"date":"2025-12-06T06:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/615379\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T06:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:33:20","slug":"spain-world-cup-group-dates-and-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/615379\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain World Cup group dates and schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/77406036007-107-76332.jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>USMNT draw favorable World Cup group that includes Paraguay and Australia<\/p>\n<p>Seth Vertelney breaks down the USMNT&#8217;s favorable World Cup group and what it means for their tournament hopes.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Pulse<\/p>\n<p>Spain enters the 2026 World Cup with sights set on returning to the glory it experienced when it last won the tournament in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>La Roja\u00a0are back atop the soccer world after winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/soccer\/europe\/2024\/07\/14\/england-vs-spain-euro-2024-odds-prediction-highlights-result\/74399785007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the 20224 UEFA championship<\/a>, and this new crop of talent will be eager to match their late-2000s, early-2010s predecessors in winning both tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Luis de la Fuente will bring a formidable squad to North America in summer 2026. The team&#8217;s most notable player is the 18-year-old winger Lamine Yamal, who had a standout tournament at Euro 2024, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/soccer\/europe\/2024\/06\/15\/lamine-yamal-spain-euro-2024-youngest-player\/74108931007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he became the youngest&#8217;s player in tournament history<\/a>. Forward \u00c1lvaro Morata is the team captain and works in tandem with Yamal in Spain&#8217;s attack. In midfield, Pedri will be expected to play a big role next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what to know about Spain&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/soccer\/world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2026 World Cup<\/a> group and schedule:<\/p>\n<p>Spain World Cup group 2026World Cup Group H<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Spain<\/li>\n<li>Cape Verde<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Uruguay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Spain World Cup schedule<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>June 15<\/strong>: Spain vs. Cape Verde at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida or Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta<\/li>\n<li><strong>June 21<\/strong>: Spain vs. Saudi Arabia at at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida or Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta<\/li>\n<li><strong>June 26<\/strong>: Spain vs. Uruguay at NRG Stadium in Houston or Estadio Akron, Zapopan, Mexico<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2026 World Cup schedule<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Group stage<\/strong>: June 11-June 27<\/li>\n<li><strong>Round of 32<\/strong>: June 28-July 3<\/li>\n<li><strong>Round of 16:\u00a0<\/strong>July 4-July 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quarterfinals<\/strong>: July 9-July 11<\/li>\n<li><strong>Semifinals:\u00a0<\/strong>July 14-15 \u2013 AT&amp;T Stadium (Arlington, Texas) and Mecedes-Benz Stadium (Atlanta)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third-place match<\/strong>: July 18 \u2013 Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens<\/li>\n<li><strong>World Cup final<\/strong>: July 19 \u2013 MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USMNT draw favorable World Cup group that includes Paraguay and Australia Seth Vertelney breaks down the USMNT&#8217;s favorable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[20661,55361,12830,9355,2000,299,103419,522,12832,6695,12047,55986,191773,114212,5777,5786,5488,12,5179,5496,5185,6581,5180,10031,104,79,6924,30364,1426,5598,6093,6589,6536,8467,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-615379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-champions","10":"tag-competitions","11":"tag-cup","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-ga","15":"tag-international","16":"tag-international-sports-competitions","17":"tag-league","18":"tag-mens","19":"tag-mens-world-cup","20":"tag-metlife","21":"tag-metlife-stadium","22":"tag-modular","23":"tag-modular-story","24":"tag-neutral","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-overall","27":"tag-overall-neutral","28":"tag-overall-positive","29":"tag-point","30":"tag-positive","31":"tag-soccer","32":"tag-spain","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-sports-news","35":"tag-stadium","36":"tag-story","37":"tag-the","38":"tag-to","39":"tag-to-the-point","40":"tag-uefa","41":"tag-uefa-champions-league","42":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115671231377904971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}