World Cup Draw 2026 TV Schedule and Mobile Live Stream Details

The United States men's national team will learn its first three opponents at the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Friday.

The Americans already know they are drawn into Group D and will play their three group-stage games on the west coast.

On Friday, three other countries will be drawn into Group D, and then, the USMNT will know its potential path of opponents if it reaches the knockout round.

Co-hosts Mexico and Canada were placed into Groups A and B ahead of the draw for the 48-team World Cup that begins on June 11.

World Cup Draw Info

Date: Friday, December 5

Start Time: Noon ET

TV: Fox

Live Stream: Fox One app or FoxSports.com

Mobile Streaming: Fox One app

The USMNT, Mexico and Canada were placed into Pot 1 with the nine highest-ranked teams in the world for Friday's draw.

One team from each of the four pots will make up the 12 groups.

The one exception is that teams from non-European confederation can't be drawn alongside each other. No more than two European teams can be a single group.

Forty-two of the 48 participants are already known. Four more European teams will enter the field through playoffs in March. Two other nations will qualify through the intercontinental playoff.

The playoff winners will be designed as UEFA Playoff Path A-D and IC Path 1 and 2 for Friday's draw.

All three of the hosts would love to avoid a group with two European teams. That could present the toughest test to get into the knockout round.

For example, no one wants to see Norway out of Pot 3 with a red-hot Erling Haaland playing up top. Ghana, with its wealth of World Cup experience, is a dangerous team out of Pot 4.

Jordan, Curacao, Cape Verde and Uzbekistan will make their World Cup debuts this summer. Uzbekistan resides in Pot 3, while the other three were placed in Pot 4.

The other wrinkle in the draw is that the top two teams in the world, Spain and Argentina, as well as the No. 3 and No. 4 teams, France and England, will be put on paths to not play each other until the semifinal, as long as they win their groups.

Thirty-two of the 48 World Cup participants will qualify for the knockout round in the expanded format. The top two teams from each group as well as the eight-best third-place finishers will make up the knockout-round bracket.