France will play Spain at Dallas Stadium in Arlington, Texas at 3 pm ET on Tuesday July 14, giving the World Cup semifinal a fixed kickoff as the tournament narrows to four teams. England will meet Argentina the next day at the same hour in Atlanta, and the rest of the knockout round now has a clear path to the final.
That is why searches for what time is the FIFA game today are landing on the schedule now: the World Cup has reached its final week after 100 matches, and the semifinal window is set. The tournament moved into the quarterfinals earlier this month and wrapped them up last weekend, leaving France, Spain, England and Argentina as the last teams standing.
FIFA expected this World Cup to be the most watched in its history, and the numbers already back that up. More than 6.2 million people had attended matches in person as the tournament entered the quarterfinals, a mark that helps explain why the organization has spread the schedule across its host countries and fixed each key match at a local-friendly time. The full schedule on FIFA’s website also defaults to the viewer’s local time zone, which matters for fans comparing kickoff times across the US and beyond.
The schedule still comes with a catch. FIFA has made YouTube its preferred partner for streaming the games, while Peacock is carrying all of the matches in Spanish in partnership with Telemundo. That means the biggest World Cup in history is also one that many viewers will meet through paid platforms and language-specific access, even as FIFA pitches the event as a global product for millions watching across digital platforms, broadcast and fan experiences in host cities.
There is also a different kind of spectacle waiting at the end. The World Cup final is set for 3 pm ET on Sunday, July 19, in the New York/New Jersey Stadium, and FIFA has tied it to a first-ever Super Bowl-style halftime show featuring Gustavo Dudamel among the performers. Before that, the two losing semifinal teams will play for third place at 5 pm ET on Saturday, July 18, in Miami Stadium in Miami, Florida, a reminder that the schedule is now down to one last question: how many fans will be able to watch it live, and on which screen.
For readers looking only for the immediate answer, France vs. Spain kicks off at 3 pm ET on Tuesday July 14 in Arlington, Texas. For everyone else, the broader answer is that the World Cup’s final stretch is now locked in, and the road to the trophy runs through a semifinal day, a third-place match and one last final on Sunday.
