FIFA World Cup 2026 Schedule in Japan Time (JST)

The FIFA World Cup 2026 begins on June 11 and runs through July 19, with all 104 matches converted to Japan Standard Time on this page. Every kick-off is JST direct from the source: venue local time computed once, JST applied year-round at UTC+9. Japan does not observe daylight saving time, so the offset stays constant across the whole tournament.

For Japanese viewers, the tournament is mostly an early-morning and weekend-afternoon affair. The host trio of Canada, Mexico, and the United States runs across UTC-3 (Atlantic Canada) through UTC-8 (Pacific Time), which means most North American afternoon kick-offs land between 03:00 and 11:00 JST the following day. Workers will catch fixtures before the train, families will gather around late-morning weekend slots, and the late-evening US kick-offs become Saturday-morning watch parties in Tokyo, Osaka, and Fukuoka.

Japan competes in Group F alongside the Netherlands, Tunisia, and Sweden. The opening match against the Netherlands is in Dallas (15:00 Central Time), the Tunisia fixture is in Monterrey, and the group closer against Sweden returns to Dallas. All three Japan group matches sit in the early-morning JST window. Set the alarm. The squad arrives off the back of a 2022 Round of 16 finish in Qatar, the deepest Japan has ever gone at a World Cup, and a Group F opener against the 2010 finalists is exactly the kind of test the federation has been building toward since the 100-year vision was published in 2005.