The big planetary meeting is approaching and M6 is preparing for a historic month. The private channel has acquired the TV rights for the 2026 and 2030 World Cups and more precisely 54 matches of the edition which begins on June 11 in North America. To find all 104 World Cup matches, you will have to go to the beIN Sports channels again. M6 begins with the opening match between Mexico and South Africa, Thursday June 11, before broadcasting Canada-Bosnia the next day, also at 9 p.m. French time.
M6 has communicated the list of matches that it will broadcast from Saturday June 13 to Friday June 19. After a third match in prime time with Qatar-Switzerland, Saturday June 13, football fans will be treated to the first clash of the tournament with Brazil-Morocco at midnight. Germany-Curaçao and Netherlands-Japan will be broadcast on Sunday at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., then Spain-Cape Verde, Belgium-Egypt and Saudi Arabia-Uruguay on Monday, at 6 p.m., 9 p.m. and midnight.
Saudi Arabia-Uruguay but not Argentina-Algeria
It’s a Tuesday that the French team enters the fray. The Blues start against Senegal at MetLife Stadium, in the suburbs of New York, at 3 p.m. in the Big Apple and 9 p.m. in France. M6 will continue with the other meeting of Group J, namely Iraq-Norway. Kick-off at midnight. That same night, the entry into contention of world champion Argentina, perhaps without Lionel Messi, against Algeria will only be broadcast on beIN Sports from 3 a.m.
M6 skipped all night matches, with the exception of a Tunisia-Netherlands at 1 a.m. and a Portugal-Colombia at 1:30 a.m. “Unfortunately, at 3 a.m., even if a lot of people can wake up, there will not be as many people as at other matches that we have chosen”replied Guillaume Charles, program director of the channel during the presentation of the M6, M6+ and RTL system. This Argentina-Algeria poster would perhaps have attracted as much audience as the Saudi Arabia-Uruguay and Iraq-Norway midnight meetings.
