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USA's Christian Pulisic and Weston Mckennie celebrate after scoring first goal during FIFA World Cup match between USA and Paraguay Alamy

Are you watching the World Cup?

There’s been four games so far and there’s 100 more to go.

THE THREE HOST nations of the 2026 World Cup have played their opening fixtures and the Tartan Army will play their opening game overnight against Haiti.

It’s the biggest World Cup there’s ever been, with 104 matches to be played across the 48 teams.

There’s been four games so far and there’s 100 more to go, with the final being played at 8pm Irish time on 19 July.

In today’s poll we want to know, have you been tuning into the World Cup?


Poll Results:

No (3789)
Yes (2159)
I’ve watched some highlights (1101)
I’ll watch when it gets to the later rounds (1078)

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