England given UK-friendly World Cup kick-off times as Scotland face late finishes

England has been given times to watch World Cup kick-offs that please UK audiences, but Scotland supporters face Scotland later this year in the tournament's finals. England will play all three of its group games in the United States, including their first two matches against Croatia on June 17th and Ghana on June 23rd, kicking off at 21:00 BST. On June 27th, the final will be played at 22:00 BST in New Jersey's MetLife Stadium in New York, where the final group game against Panama will be held. Scotland will play their Group C games in Boston and Miami, starting at 02:00 BST on June 14th, their opener against Haiti will take place at Gillette Stadium. Both Steve Clarke's team's next two matches, against Morocco in Massachusetts on 19 June and five-time champion Brazil in Miami on June 24, will both begin at 23:00 BST.

Due to the predicted heAT in Texas, England's first mATch in Dallas will be played under a closed roof, with air conditioning in the AT&T Stadium AT 15:00 local time. As they normally operate with artificial turf, Scotland's games in Dallas and Boston, where Scotland plays twice, will be played on a temporary grass surface. In England's two matches at the Gillette Stadium, the match will begin at 16:00 local time, while Scotland will face Scotland at 21:00 and 18:00. Extreme heat and humidity in Miami, the site of Scotland's last group match against Brazil, which will begin at 18:00 local time, could be a problem during next summer's tournament. If they qualify through two rounds of Uefa play-off matches in March, Wales, or Northern Ireland, they will all three group matches at 20:00 BST. On June 12, they will meet Canada in Toronto, Switzerland in Los Angeles, and Qatar in Seattle on June 24. After the government launched a public inquiry on increasing pub licensing hours, pubs in England and Walescould remain open until 01:00next summer if a home country makes it to the quarter-final stage.

When and where England and Scotland will play

Any time BST has stated. 23:00, Wed, 23 June vs. Panama, Wes, 21:00 local) 21:00, Johannesburg (16:00 local) 23:58, Wet, 21:30, Thue, 27 June - Barcelona (21:00 local), Bangkok (18:00 local) 22:00. All times BST unless stated. BST (British) 22:00, Thu, 27 Jun. V. Between 11 June and 19 July 2026, the first 48-team World Cup will be held in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. In the first match of the expanded tournament, Mexico City's historic Estadio Azteca will face South Africa in the inaugural match of a 104 match series in 39 days. On Thursday, 11 June, the game - a repeat of the first match at the 2010 World Cup - will begin at 20:00 BST. On July 19th, the World Cup final will begin at 20:00 BST. The semi-finals, which will be hosted in Dallas and Atlanta, will also start at 20:00 BST. Following the conclusion of the Fifa and Uefa play-off tournaments, the final match schedule will be announced in March. The tournament will be hosted in 16 cities around the world, spanning four time zones and three nations, at locations up to 2,800 miles apart. After studying by Queen's University Belfast found that the temperatures at 14 of the 16 stadiums being used exceeded potentially harmful levels, governing body Fifa was advised not to avoid afternoon games at several locations next summer. Gianni Infantino, the president of Fifa, was joined by Brazil's two-time World Cup champion Ronaldo, Italy's 2006 champion Francesco Totti, Bulgaria's World Cup 1994 Golden Boot winner Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian's prestigious World Cup winner Hristi Lalas, and

'England fans face gruelling travel schedule'

Analysis by BBC Sport football writer Dale Johnson England supporters face one of the most difficult travel plans if they want to follow their squad all the way to the World Cup final. Fans will have to travel 6,468 if the Three Lions win Group L and advance to the final. 5 miles. That is starting in Dallas and ending in East Rutherford, with a total travel time of less than 19 hours. For the most part, the Dallas-to-Fool game was the second group game, as well as the trip to Mexico City and back between the last 16 and the quarter-finals. With their journeys totaling 5,970, England will have less travel as group runners-up. With a total travel time of 18 and a half hours, there have been 4 miles and ten minutes. And while Portugal and Spain remain in Houston and Atlanta respectively for their first two group games, they have it worse. Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal travel 6,781. More than 22 hours on the air, 9 miles in the air are available, while Spain must make trips totaling 6,667. The distance is two miles, which will take 18 hours and 15 minutes. With just 2,675 miles on the clock and taking 12 and a half hours, France fans are the big winners. They also have the luxury of two short train rides between East Rutherford and Philadelphia. The 1,561-mile trip from Foxborough to Dallas for the semi-final accounts accounts for more than half of the journey. Mexico's second best is second, largely because they will have three games in a row at the Azteca, from their first group game to a last-16 tie. Their total travel works out of 3,199. 7 miles. El Tri supporters have the lowest travel time at just over ten hours. Third best are Germany on 4,141. 5 miles, which would take 15 and a half hours, will take 15 to a 15 and half hours. And what about Scotland? They would have traveled 6,083. They shocked Brazil and Morocco, won their group and advanced to the final and travelled to the country. 3 miles taking 18 hours. With 6,248 miles, which is just over 18 hours, if Scotland ranks as group champions.