Colombia 2026 Schedule & Game Calendar

Colombia’s 2026 World Cup begins in Group K

The 2026 World Cup is the largest the tournament has ever staged, 48 teams and 104 matches spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico from June 11 to July 19. Colombia go into it in Group K, drawn alongside Uzbekistan, DR Congo, and Portugal. Three group games, three host cities, and an 11-day window that decides whether Colombia carry on past the group phase.

The schedule keeps Colombia in Mexico for most of it. They open against Uzbekistan at the Mexico City Stadium on June 17, then move to the Guadalajara Stadium to face DR Congo on June 23, before the group finishes against Portugal at the Miami Stadium on June 27. Two matches in Mexico, one in the United States, and a finale that crosses a border. The first two kick off at 10:00 PM ET, the last at 7:30 PM ET.

What Colombia want from this group is clear enough to state. Two of the four teams advance automatically, and the eight best third-placed sides across the 12 groups also reach the Round of 32. Finishing first carries weight beyond the bragging rights, because group winners earn a kinder seeding in the bracket. With Portugal looming on the final matchday, the Uzbekistan and DR Congo games are the ones that set Colombia up, and a slow start would leave the Miami fixture carrying everything.

The Group K fixtures, one Colombia date at a time

Colombia’s tournament opens in the Mexican capital. They face Uzbekistan at the Mexico City Stadium on Wednesday, June 17, a 10:00 PM ET kickoff, and the team sheet lists Colombia as the away side. It is the sort of fixture a side with designs on the knockout rounds is expected to win, though a 48-team field has a way of turning openers into nervy, cagey affairs. Three points here would hand Colombia an early platform in Group K.

Game two takes Colombia to Guadalajara. They meet DR Congo at the Guadalajara Stadium on Tuesday, June 23, again at 10:00 PM ET, and this is the first match where Colombia carry home status. By the time it kicks off, DR Congo will already have a group game behind them, so the picture in Group K will have started to form. For Colombia, this is the kind of middle fixture that quietly decides a campaign: win it and second place, at worst, comes into view; drop points and the maths tightens fast.

The group ends in Miami. Colombia face Portugal at the Miami Stadium on Saturday, June 27, a 7:30 PM ET start, with Colombia listed as the home team this time. On paper it has the look of the group decider, the CONMEBOL side against the UEFA side, and depending on the earlier results it could be a straight fight for top spot or a calmer night with qualification already banked. Either way, Miami is the date to circle, because where Colombia finish in Group K shapes which half of the knockout bracket they drop into.

Colombia’s route through the 48-team knockout stage

Get out of Group K and the expanded format takes over. The 2026 World Cup stretches to 104 matches and adds a Round of 32 that did not exist in the old 32-team structure. Group winners and runners-up are joined by the eight best third-placed teams, and from that point it is straight knockout football: Round of 32, Round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals, and the final on July 19.

Who Colombia meet in that Round of 32 cannot be known yet. The pairings only lock in once all 12 groups have played their third round, so the bracket fills from the top down in the final days of the group stage. That is one of the quirks of a 48-team field, the chance that a third-placed finish still goes through and the bracket math stays open until the very end. Colombia could find themselves watching other groups to learn where they land. You can follow the whole thing, every group and the bracket as it forms, on the 2026 World Cup overview.

For Colombia, the knockout rounds are the part that defines the summer. A clean group exit means little if the first elimination game slips away, and the expanded format adds one more round to survive than at any World Cup before it. That is the backdrop to every Group K result. The matches in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Miami are all seeding for the single-elimination games that decide who lifts the trophy.

Reading the Group K table as Colombia’s matches stack up

Group K will not sit still while Colombia play. The standings shift after every result, and the order of Colombia’s fixtures means the table is already taking shape by the time they kick off in Mexico City on June 17. Three points, a draw, or a loss in that opener against Uzbekistan does more than bank a number. It sets the tone for how Colombia approach the DR Congo and Portugal games that follow.

The maths in a four-team group is unforgiving in its simplicity. A win is worth three points, a draw one, and with two automatic qualification places plus a route through the best third-placed teams, even a single dropped point can be the difference between topping Group K and sliding into a tiebreak. Goal difference is the first separator if Colombia finish level with another side, so the margin in each game carries weight, not just the result. A heavy win reads very differently from a narrow one when the standings are tight.

The fixture sequence also hands Colombia a clear set of checkpoints. After the Uzbekistan opener, the Guadalajara meeting with DR Congo is the midpoint where qualification math starts to firm up. By the Portugal finale in Miami on June 27, Colombia will know exactly what they need, whether that is a win to seal first, a draw to go through, or a result to climb out of the third-place pack. Watching the other Group K game on each matchday matters too, because the picture for Colombia can change before they have even taken the field.

Putting Colombia’s World Cup schedule on your calendar

There is no need to keep these dates in your head. The download button on the schedule above pulls Colombia’s full campaign as an ICS file, a CSV spreadsheet, or a printable PDF, and you can take the whole group run or pick out one match if that is all you need.

ICS is the option that does the heavy lifting. Load it into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook and Colombia’s three group games appear with their kickoffs already converted to your local time zone, the venue attached, and the host city named. Because the file draws on live tournament data, it also keeps itself honest: if a kickoff time shifts, or once Colombia’s knockout opponents are confirmed, those entries update without you lifting a finger.

Tracking more than one nation this summer? The same downloads exist for every team at the 2026 World Cup, so you can set Colombia’s fixtures next to another side and read the tournament off a single calendar. Lock in June 17, June 23, and June 27 first, then let the knockout dates slot in as Group K and the rest of the bracket settle.