For teams coming to next year's FIFA World Cup , Friday was about learning opponents.
Saturday was for finding out other logistics — the sites and times of games.
The entire schedule for the 2026 tournament in Canada, Mexico and the United States was revealed Saturday , a day after the draw divided the 48-team field into a dozen groups of four for the preliminary round. Now every team knows how much travel it will face while playing its first — and possibly only — three games. They can also estimate how much the heat will be a factor.
Even Canada coach Jesse Marsch — whose team will stay north of the border in Toronto and Vancouver while playing in Group B — is taking the weather into account. Canada opens in Toronto against the winner of a European playoff, and that game is at 3 p.

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