The has unveiled its World Cup 2026 team, bringing together presenters, former players and analysts for a tournament that will stretch across Canada, Mexico and the USA next summer. The broadcaster said Kelly Cates, Mark Chapman, Gabby Logan and Alex Scott will front its television coverage, with former Wales captain Ashley Williams among the names joining the line-up.
The tournament will be the biggest World Cup in history, with 48 teams playing 104 matches across three host nations. The will show 54 games live on television and make all 104 matches available across its digital platforms, as it builds a coverage plan spanning TV, iPlayer, 5 Live, Sounds, the Sport website and app, the Sport Football YouTube channel and social media.
Alex Kay-Jelski said the broadcaster was turning the biggest World Cup in history into “the most iconic one yet” and promised to bring fans closer to every match, every moment and every story. He added that football unites people like nothing else and said audiences would be able to follow not only the live matches but also a steady stream of football content throughout the day across platforms.
The line-up mixes familiar British voices with international names. Alongside Williams, the said former England players Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney, Micah Richards, Joe Hart, Paul Robinson, Steph Houghton, Ellen White and Danny Murphy will be part of its coverage. Scotland will be represented by Scott Brown, Rachel Corsie and James McFadden, while Olivier Giroud, Gaël Clichy, César Azpilicueta, Benni McCarthy and Thomas Frank will add global perspective. Former international referee Darren Cann completes the team.
Williams’ presence gives the broadcaster a direct link to one of Wales’ most memorable modern football stories. He captained Wales at Euro 2016 in France, when the team reached the semi-finals, but he will now help explain a World Cup that Wales will watch from home after playoff heartache kept it out of the 2026 field. That absence does not lessen the scale of the event: with 48 teams, 104 matches and 16 cities spread across three host nations, the is setting up a wall-to-wall package meant to match the size of the tournament itself.
The real test now is not whether the can cover the event, but whether it can keep pace with a competition that will run at a level of scale football has never seen before. If its new studio and deep bench of voices land as planned, the broadcaster will not just be showing the World Cup fixtures 2026; it will be trying to make sense of a month-long tournament that will dominate the sport’s calendar and the attention of fans everywhere.
