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World Cup 2026 Group G guide – fixtures, schedule, standings and odds for Belgium, Egypt, Iran and New Zealand | Football News

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World Cup Group G features Belgium, Egypt, Iran and New Zealand.

World Cup Group G fixtures

All kick-off times are BST

World Cup Group G table

Who qualifies for the next round?

  • The top two sides in each group progress to the round of 32
  • The eight-best third-placed sides across the 12 groups also qualify for the last 32
  • If teams are level on points, the side with the most points obtained in matches between those sides finishes highest
  • If teams are still tied, goal difference from the matches between those sides, and then goals scored in those matches, are used as tie-breakers

World Cup Group G supercomputer prediction

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Belgium guide

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Manchester City winger Jeremy Doku is going to the World Cup with Belgium

Belgium facts:

  • Manager: Rudi Garcia
  • Route to World Cup: UEFA Group J winners
  • Last time qualified: 2022
  • Best World Cup result: Third place (2018)
  • FIFA world ranking: 9

Belgium fixtures

All kick-off times are BST

Monday June 15: Belgium vs Egypt, kick-off 8pm – Seattle, USA

Sunday June 21: Belgium vs Iran, kick-off 8pm – Los Angeles, USA

Saturday June 27: New Zealand vs Belgium, kick-off 4am – Vancouver, Canada

Belgium squad

Goalkeepers: Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid), Senne Lammens (Man Utd), Mike Penders (Racing Strasbourg).

Defenders: Timothy Castagne (Fulham), Zeno Debast (Sporting Lisbon), Maxim De Cuyper (Brighton), Koni De Winter (AC Milan), Brandon Mechele (Club ⁠Brugge), Thomas Meunier (Lille), Nathan Ngoy (Lille), Joaquin Seys (Club Brugge), ​Arthur Theate (Eintracht Frankfurt).

Midfielders: Kevin De Bruyne (Napoli), Amadou Onana (Aston Villa), Nicolas Raskin (Rangers), Youri Tielemans (Aston ​Villa), Hans Vanaken (Club Brugge), Axel Witsel (Girona).

Forwards: Charles De Ketelaere (Atalanta), Jeremy Doku (Man City), Matias Fernandez-Pardo (Lille), Romelu Lukaku (Napoli), Dodi Lukebakio (Benfica), Diego Moreira (Strasbourg), Alexis ‌Saelemaekers (AC Milan), Leandro Trossard (Arsenal).

Manager: Rudi Garcia

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Egypt guide

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Egypt facts:

  • Manager: Hossam Hassan
  • Route to World Cup: CAF Group A winners
  • Last time qualified: 2018
  • Best World Cup result: First round (1934), group stage (1990, 2018)
  • FIFA world ranking: 28

Egypt fixtures

All kick-off times are BST

Monday June 15: Belgium vs Egypt, kick-off 8pm – Seattle, USA

Monday June 22: New Zealand vs Egypt, kick-off 2am – Vancouver, Canada

Saturday June 27: Egypt vs Iran, kick-off 4am – Seattle, USA

Egypt squad

Goalkeepers: Mohamed El Shenawy (Al Ahly), Mostafa Shobeir (Al Ahly), El Mahdi Soliman (Zamalek), Mohamed Alaa (El Gouna).

Defenders: Mohamed Hany (Al Ahly), Tarek Alaa (Zed), Hamdy Fathy (Al Wakrah), Rami Rabia (Al Ain), Yasser Ibrahim (Al Ahly), Hossam Abdelmaguid (Zamalek), Mohamed Abdelmonemn (Nice), Ahmed Fatouh (Zamalek), Karim Hafez (Pyramids).

Midfielders: Marwan Ateya (Al Ahly), Mohanad Lasheen (Pyramids), Nabil Emad (Al Najma), Mahmoud Saber (Zed), Ahmed Zizo (Al Ahly), Emam Ashour (Al Ahly), Mostafa Ziko (Pyramids), Mahmoud Trezeguet (Al Ahly), Ibrahim Adel (Nordsjaelland), Haissem Hassan (Real Ovideo).

Forwards: Omar Marmoush (Man City), Mohamed Salah (Liverpool), Aqtay Abdallah (Enppi), Hamza Abdelkarim (Barcelona).

Manager: Hossam Hassan

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Iran guide

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Iran facts:

  • Manager: Amir Ghalenoei
  • Route to World Cup: AFC Group A winners
  • Last time qualified: 2022
  • Best World Cup result: Group stage (1978, 1998, 2006, 2014, 2018, 2022)
  • FIFA world ranking: 21

Iran fixtures

All kick-off times are BST

Tuesday June 16: Iran vs New Zealand, kick-off 2am – Los Angeles, USA

Sunday June 21: Belgium vs Iran, kick-off 8pm – Los Angeles, USA

Saturday June 27: Egypt vs Iran, kick-off 4am – Seattle, USA

Iran squad

Goalkeepers: Alireza Beiranvand (Tractor FC), Seyed Hossein Hosseini (Sepahan), Payam Niazmand (Persepolis).

Defenders: Danial Eiri (Malavan), Ehsan Hajsafi (Sepahan), Saleh Hardani (Esteghlal), Hossein Kanaani (Persepolis), Shoja Khalilzadeh (Tractor FC), Milad Mohammadi (Persepolis), Ali Nemati (Foolad FC), Ramin Rezaeian (Foolad FC).

Midfielders: Rouzbeh Cheshmi (Esteghlal), Saeid Ezatolahi (Shabab Al Ahli), Mehdi Ghaedi (Al-Nasr), Saman Ghoddos (Kalba FC), Mohammad Ghorbani (Al-Wahda), Alireza Jahanbakhsh (FC Dender), Mohammad Mohebi (Rostov), Amir Mohammad Razzaghinia (Esteghlal), Mehdi Torabi (Tractor FC), Aria Yousefi (Sepahan).

Forwards: Ali Alipour (Persepolis), Dennis Dargahi (Standard Liege), Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh (Tractor FC), Mehdi Taremi (Olympiakos), Shahriar Moghanlou (Kalba FC).

Manager: Amir Ghalenoei

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New Zealand guide

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New Zealand facts:

  • Manager: Darren Bazeley
  • Route to World Cup: OFC winners
  • Last time qualified: 2010
  • Best World Cup result: Group stage (1982, 2010)
  • FIFA world ranking: 85

New Zealand fixtures

All kick-off times are BST

Tuesday June 16: Iran vs New Zealand, kick-off 2am – Los Angeles, USA

Monday June 22: New Zealand vs Egypt, kick-off 2am – Vancouver, Canada

Saturday June 27: New Zealand vs Belgium, kick-off 4am – Vancouver, Canada

New Zealand squad

Goalkeepers: Max Crocombe (Millwall), Alex Paulsen (Lechia Gdansk), Michael Woud (Auckland).

Defenders: Tim Payne (Wellington Phoenix), Francis De Vries (Auckland), Tyler Bindon (Nottingham Forest), Michael Boxall (Minnesota Utd), Liberato Cacace (Wrexham), Nando Pijnaker (Auckland), Finn Surman (Portland Timbers), Callan Elliot (Auckland), Tommy Smith (Braintree Town).

Midfielders: Joe Bell (Viking FK), Matt Garbett (Peterborough), Marko Stamenic (Swansea), Sarpreet Singh (Wellington Phoenix), Alex Rufer (Wellington Phoenix), Ryan Thomas (PEC Zwolle).

Forwards: Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest), Eli Just (Motherwell), Kosta Barbarouses (Western Sydney Wanderers), Ben Waine (Port Vale), Ben Old (Saint-Etienne), Callum McCowatt (Silkeborg IF), Jesse Randall (Auckland), Lachlan Bayliss (Newcastle Jets).

Manager: Darren Bazeley

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