FIFA 2026 group stage results live today

FIFA 2026 Group Stage Results Live Today – June 14, 2026

Day 4. And I genuinely don’t know where to start.

Actually I do. Scotland won again. We’ll get to that.

Scores Already In Today

Scotland 1–0 Haiti — Group C, Boston

Okay so. Scotland. Winning. At a World Cup. In 2026.

I keep typing that and it still looks wrong on the screen but it happened. Boston, full stadium, Scottish fans who probably booked those flights not fully believing they’d actually be needed — and their team went and won. Proper win. Not a lucky scramble, not a penalty shootout, a genuine 1–0 football result.

Last time Scotland were at one of these was France. 1998. There are grown adults with kids of their own who have never in their lives seen Scotland play at a World Cup until this week. That’s not a small thing.

Haiti will be gutted. They should be — they qualified the hard way and they deserve more than a group stage exit. But today wasn’t their day and Scotland were sharper. Simple as that.

Australia 2–0 Türkiye — Group D, Vancouver

Right so Turkey. Coming into this tournament people were rating them. Decent squad, hadn’t been here since 2002 but there was genuine belief they could do something in Group D.

Australia absolutely battered them. 2–0 and it wasn’t that close honestly. The Socceroos played with confidence and organisation and Turkey just… didn’t show up. One of the bigger upsets of the tournament so far, not that it’ll get called that because Australia aren’t a small team — but nobody had them winning that comfortably.

Group D now looks like USA and Australia at the top. That’s not where most people had it before Thursday.

The Backstory — Days 1 Through 3

Right, quick version for anyone catching up.

Thursday 11th — Mexico 2–0 South Africa. Hosts, Azteca Stadium, enormous crowd, job done. South Korea 2–1 Czechia in Dallas. Group A already has some shape to it.

Friday 12th — Canada 1–1 Bosnia and Herzegovina. Home nation, home crowd, and they dropped two points. Bosnia dug in and earned it. Canada fans were… not thrilled.

Saturday 13th — this is when things got properly interesting.

USA 4–1 Paraguay. In Los Angeles. Four goals. Pulisic pulling strings, the crowd losing their minds, and suddenly the host nation looks like an actual football team rather than a feelgood story. That result will have teams sitting up.

Brazil 1–1 Morocco. Morocco were excellent. Genuinely excellent. Brazil were fine but fine isn’t good enough against a team that well organised and that belief they’ve carried since Qatar 2022. The “is this Brazil actually dangerous” debate is already going again.

Qatar 1–1 Switzerland. Qatar’s first ever World Cup through actual qualifying rather than automatic hosting rights. A draw against Switzerland is not a bad return.

Scotland 1–0 Haiti. Which we’ve covered. Still not over it.

Still to Come Today — Three Big Ones

Germany vs Curaçao — Group E

Houston. 5pm local. 10pm if you’re in the UK.

Germany. 2022. Went out in the group stage. Embarrassing by any measure, genuinely one of the bigger shocks of that tournament. They’ve had four years to think about it and tonight is where they start making the point that it won’t happen again.

Curaçao are making their debut. Caribbean island, fewer people than a mid-sized English city, and somehow they’re here at the World Cup. Whatever the scoreline tonight — and let’s be honest, Germany need to win this convincingly — just making it here is the achievement. They earned this.

Germany need to be ruthless. I’d expect them to be.

Netherlands vs Japan — Group F

Dallas. 8pm local. 1am Monday if you’re in the UK.

I’ll say this once and I’ll say it clearly: Japan beat Germany AND Spain at the last World Cup. In the same group stage. People keep acting surprised when Japan do well and at some point the surprise has to turn into just… respect.

Netherlands are a serious team. Van Dijk, Gakpo, Depay — they’ve got quality across the pitch and they’ll be going into this as favourites. They should be. But Japan will press high, they’ll be aggressive early, and if the Dutch aren’t sharp they’ll find themselves in a game they didn’t expect.

Best fixture of the day for me. Not close.

Côte d’Ivoire vs Ecuador — Group E

Philadelphia. 11pm local. 4am UK — yes really.

Nobody’s watching this live in Britain. Let’s be honest.

Ecuador are quietly one of the more interesting teams in this tournament. Not flashy, don’t have a household name upfront, but they’re hard to beat and they know how to play a knockout game even when it’s technically still the group stage. Ivory Coast have flair and pace and on their best day they can beat anyone.

My gut says 1–1 but my gut has been wrong about Ecuador before.

The Format — Still Confusing People

Fine. Quick explanation because the messages keep coming in.

48 teams total. Twelve groups of four. Top two from each group qualify automatically — that’s 24 teams. Then FIFA takes the eight best third-placed teams from across all twelve groups. That gives you 32 teams going into the knockout rounds.

Round of 32 kicks off June 28.

So finishing third isn’t necessarily done. If you lose your opener, win the next two, you might still be in it depending on what happens in other groups. That sounds like a lifeline but it also means goal difference is everything. Concede a hammering in game one and even two wins might not save you.

There’s also a new rule about time-wasting this year — referees count down five seconds on throw-ins and goal kicks. You’ll notice it. Players are still getting used to it, honestly. Some of the reactions when the ref starts counting are quite funny.

Players to Watch This Week

Lionel Messi — plays tomorrow. Argentina vs Algeria, Monday evening. He’s 38. This is almost certainly the last World Cup of his life. I don’t really need to say more than that. Just watch it.

Cristiano Ronaldo — Portugal haven’t played yet either. Same conversation. Final tournament, last shot. Whatever side of the debate you’re on, watching either of these two knowing it might be their last World Cup game hits differently than it used to.

Lamine Yamal — 17 years old, plays for Barcelona, Spain’s opening game is Monday against Cape Verde in Atlanta. If you haven’t seen him play yet genuinely just search his name right now. He’s something special and a World Cup is exactly the stage where that becomes obvious to everyone at once.

Scotland — not a player, a whole nation. They’re here. They’re winning. Nobody expected it and that somehow makes it better.

Monday’s Games

Spain vs Cape Verde — Atlanta, noon ET Belgium vs Egypt — Group G Iran vs New Zealand — Group G Saudi Arabia vs Uruguay Argentina vs Algeria — evening

That last one. Don’t miss it.

Where to Watch

UK — BBC and ITV. Both free. Both streaming online through iPlayer and ITVX. No subscription needed.

US — Fox Sports and Telemundo carrying the main games. FIFA+ has some free streams too.

Everywhere else — FIFA’s official app for live scores. Sofascore if you want stats and lineups and all of that.

Group stage goes until late June. The Round of 32 starts June 28. Final is July 19, MetLife Stadium, New Jersey.

Last Thing

USA hammering Paraguay. Brazil drawing with Morocco. Scotland winning. Australia beating Turkey. And tonight Curaçao — an island most football fans couldn’t have found on a map six months ago — walks out at a World Cup for the first time in history.

Four days in. Nobody’s been knocked out yet. Messi hasn’t played. Ronaldo hasn’t played.

It’s all still ahead of us.

Germany in Houston in a few hours. Stay on.

Updated 14 June 2026. Times shown local and UK/GMT. Check local listings for your broadcast.