Norway 2026 Schedule & Game Calendar

Norway’s bright start to Group I at the 2026 World Cup

Norway come to the 2026 World Cup chasing a first deep run on the biggest stage. No world title sits behind them, and the first 48-team edition is the setting for a fresh attempt. The draw placed Norway in Group I alongside Iraq, Senegal, and France, with the three matches running across the United States and Canada between June 16 and June 26.

The opening night could hardly have gone better. Norway beat Iraq 4-1 at Boston Stadium on June 16, a result that pushes them straight to the front of the group on points and goal difference alike. From there the schedule swings to New York and back: Senegal at the New York/New Jersey Stadium on June 22, then France in Boston on June 26. Three games, two host cities, every kickoff inside the Eastern time zone.

What that win does is give Norway breathing room. Two of the four teams in each group advance automatically, and the eight best third-placed sides across the 12 groups also reach the Round of 32. Finishing first or second is the real prize, and the bracket favours group winners with a kinder seeding. After putting four past Iraq, Norway turn to the Senegal and France games knowing a strong opener has already done part of the work.

The first 48-team World Cup spans 104 matches across the USA, Canada, and Mexico from June 11 to July 19, and Norway’s part of it stays in the northeast. Two of their three group games sit at Boston Stadium, with the middle fixture a short hop down to the New York/New Jersey Stadium, so Norway avoid the heavy travel that some groups draw. Add the four-goal opening haul and the goal difference it brings, and Norway have handed themselves a buffer that could matter if Group I tightens up in the closing round.

Reading Norway’s three group games

Norway’s tournament started on Tuesday, June 16 at 6:00 PM ET against Iraq in Boston. Boston Stadium staged it, and the 4-1 win means Norway took maximum points and a goal cushion from a fixture they were expected to handle. A commanding start in a four-team group is the position every side wants, because it loosens the pressure on the matches still to come.

The second fixture is the one that may shape the group. Senegal arrive at the New York/New Jersey Stadium on Monday, June 22, an 8:00 PM ET kickoff with Norway at home for the first time in the group. Two sides eyeing the places behind France will fancy this as a pivotal night, and a Norway win would go a long way toward securing automatic progress before the final round.

The group ends in Boston on Friday, June 26 against France, a 3:00 PM ET start, with Norway listed as the home team. By then Norway’s position may already be locked, or the meeting with the two-time champions could settle who tops Group I and who takes second. Boston is the date to keep free, because where Norway finish decides which half of the knockout bracket waits for them.

A meeting between two UEFA sides to close a group does not come around often, and it gives the France fixture an edge beyond the points alone. Norway return to the stadium where their tournament started, which spares them another move and lets them settle into familiar surroundings for the decider. If the two sides arrive level or close on points, goal difference steps in as the tie-breaker, and that is exactly where Norway’s emphatic win over Iraq could pay off. It is the kind of detail that turns a group’s final day into a scoreboard-watching exercise.

How far the bracket could carry Norway

Get out of Group I and the new shape of the tournament takes over. The 2026 World Cup runs to 104 matches and adds a Round of 32 that never existed in the 32-team era. Group winners and runners-up are joined by the eight best third-placed teams, and the football turns to straight knockout from there: Round of 32, Round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals, and the final on July 19.

The team Norway would face in that Round of 32 is not decided yet, and it stays open until all 12 groups have completed their final round. The bracket fills from the top as group positions are confirmed, so Norway’s first knockout opponent only becomes clear in the last days of the group stage. The complete view, every group and the bracket as it builds, sits on the 2026 World Cup overview.

For Norway, a knockout place would mark real progress, and the expanded field gives a side in their position a genuine route forward. The third-place safety net is part of that, though after the Iraq win Norway will be aiming higher than scraping through. Every group result from here either banks a place or improves the seeding, and the calendar above keeps that picture current.

Getting Norway’s World Cup schedule onto your calendar

Every Norway fixture on this page can go straight into your own calendar. Tap the download button on the schedule above to pull the full set as an ICS file, a CSV spreadsheet, or a printable PDF, and you are free to take the whole Group I run or just one fixture.

The ICS file does it for most. Drop it into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook and Norway’s group games arrive with the kickoff times already converted to your zone, plus the venue and host city. Because the schedule draws from live tournament data, it stays accurate without any input: if a kickoff time moves, or once a Norway knockout opponent is confirmed, those entries update by themselves.

Keeping an eye on more than one team? The same downloads exist for every nation at the 2026 World Cup, so you can line Norway’s fixtures up beside another side and watch the tournament unfold on a single calendar. Block out the Group I dates first, June 16, June 22, and June 26, then let the knockout matches arrive as the bracket takes shape. The printable PDF works well for a wall or a fridge, while the ICS and CSV files suit anyone who would rather keep Norway’s World Cup on a phone or laptop. Whatever format you pick, the three group dates anchor it, and the rest fills in as Norway’s place in the bracket is decided.