2026 FIFA World Cup: Friendly matches

Since we have several teams already qualified, it may be time to jumpstart this thread with a few results. I'm only posting matches featuring at least one qualified team, but you're free to also discuss friendlies featuring teams that can still qualify. Canadian Shield Cup: Canada 4–2 Ukraine Ivory Coast 0–1 New Zealand On June 10, Canada face Ivory Coast while New Zealand will face Ukraine. Other friendlies: Mexico 2–4 Switzerland United States 1–2 Turkey On June 10, Mexico will face Turkey while the United States will face Switzerland.

A few unmentioned friendlies of interest from this window: May 27: Jamaica 3–2 Trinidad and Tobago May 28: Catalonia 2–0 Costa Rica Oman 1–0 Lebanon Ghana 1–2 Nigeria May 29: Malaysia 1–1 Cape Verde May 30: Saudi Arabia 2–0 Jordan May 31: Trinidad and Tobago 0–4 Ghana Jamaica 2–2 Nigeria El Salvador 1–1 Guatemala June 2: Tunisia 2–0 Burkina Faso June 3: Malaysia 0–3 Cape Verde June 5: Algeria 2–0 Rwanda Georgia 1–0 Faroe Islands Congo DR 1–0 Mali June 6: Burkina Faso 2–0 Zimbabwe Luxembourg 0–1 Slovenia Kosovo 5–2 Armenia Hungary 0–2 Sweden South Africa 0–0 Tanzania Republic of Ireland 1–1 Senegal Scotland 1–3 Iceland Poland 2–0 Moldova Gabon 3–4 Niger Morocco 2–0 Tunisia Cameroon 3–0 Uganda June 7: Denmark 2–1 Northern Ireland Greece 4–1 Slovakia June 8: Congo DR 3–1 Madagascar Georgia 1–1 Cape Verde June 9: Liechtenstein 0–4 Scotland Kosovo 4–2 Comoros Montenegro 2–2 Armenia Gabon 2–0 Guinea-Bissau Morocco 1–0 Benin Equatorial Guinea 1–1 Cameroon June 10: Azerbaijan 1–2 Hungary Slovenia 2–1 Bosnia and Herzegovina Denmark 5–0 Lithuania Sweden 4–3 Algeria South Africa 2–0 Mozambique Israel 1–0 Slovakia England 1–3 Senegal Northern Ireland 1–0 Iceland United States 0–4 Switzerland Mexico 1–0 Turkey

A bit of a shock seeing Senegal beat England that soundly. Tuchel has a lot of work to do

That England lineup was kind of mixed "B"/"A" team though right? Especially the back line and Keeper. But also Senegal is a good team.Yeah England was mixing it up a bit, but they are one of the few teams that can put out 3 or 4 good first 11s. Senegal were without Mane, Pape Sarr, and Assane Diao. Although I'm not sure Mane should be a starter for Senegal anymore.

Sweden 4 Algeria 3 A crazy match that saw a weakened Sweden jump to a 4-0 lead only to hang on for the victory in the end with Algeria missing many chances. Algeria defence was really poor. England 1 Senegal 3 England experimenting and were outplayed and lose their first match to African opposition.

3 or 4? Maybe I'm pushing it.

Yeah, Canada wins with 4 points. In the Yank shield, the US finished dead last. Switzerland finished top with 2 wins and plus 6 goal diff.

True. They did not look so hot in the last Euro either but sleepwalked their way to the Final though so it is tough to gauge them.

2025 EAFF E-1 Football Championship: 15 July 2025: South Korea 0–1 Japan

Man, the Swiss are utterly ragdolling the US.

22 July 2025: Tanzania 1–0 Uganda

26 July 2025: Qatar 0–3 Udinese

Canadian Shield Ukraine 2 New Zealand 1 Canada 0 Ivory Coast 0

That England lineup was kind of mixed "B"/"A" team though right? Especially the back line and Keeper. But also Senegal is a good team.

I definitely enjoyed that. After a frustrating UEFA Nations League campaign that saw us relegated, where scoring was a major issue, it was nice to see eight goals against the top two teams in Concacaf (or should Canada be in there?) I appreciate this was far from a first choice lineup for the US, but after about 10 minutes this game had training match characteristics. @HomietheClown - your thoughts?Yeah Canada is the best Concacaf team. US is 3rd right now.

2025 EAFF E-1 Football Championship: 7 July 2025: South Korea 3–0 China 8 July 2025: Japan 6–1 Hong Kong It has to be mentioned that neither Japan nor South Korea are playing with European players, relying in local talent. However, I wouldn't be surprised if a few of those guys end up in the WC final squads, specially if they secure a move abroad.