The 2018 World Cup is just a day away, with the tournament running from June 14 until the final on July 15. Check back here daily for results, news coverage and stories on the biggest names in Russia.
2018 World Cup content and fixtures
Dates: June 14-July 15
Fixtures: Daily match schedule
Scores: Follow every match
Tables: All the groups
Bracket: The knockout stages
News and features: ESPN’s home for everything World Cup
Betting guide: How to bet the World Cup
Para la cobertura de los Copa Mundial en español, visite ESPN Deportes
Para a cobertura dos Copa do Mundo em Português, por favor visite ESPN Brasil.
How to watch the World Cup (check local listings)
United States: Fox Sports, Telemundo Deportes
Africa: Kwesé TV (Free-to-air)
Australia: SBS, Optus Sport
Brazil: Globo, SporTV, Fox Sports
United Kingdom: BBC, ITV
What to read and watch: Preview content
PLAY: ESPN FC’s Match Predictor game, and get some tips here
Predictions: See what the ESPN pundits are saying
The results are in! See the final World Cup Ultimate XI. Read
Alternative 2018 World Cup Fans’ Guide. Read
World Cup team posters: Check out our specially commissioned graphics.
World Cup 2018 team previews: What you need to know about all 32 teams. Read
Marvel’s Amazing World Cup Spoilers: Marvel brings you the epic stories, big heroes and mega-villains in Russia this summer. Read
Special report: Inside Russia’s new-school hooligan culture. Read
World Cup Top Tenners: We take a look at the good, the bad and the ugly from tournaments gone by. Read
World Cup final 23-man squads: Who will be on the plane to Russia? Read
Best represented clubs: Which clubs are sending the most men to the biggest show on Earth? Read
World Cup surprising omissions XI: Who has missed the plane? Read
Unqualified XI: Those whose nation failed to make it to Russia. Read
Surprise call-ups: Who did not expect to make the finals? Read
Injury concerns: Neymar, Salah highlight World Cup worries. Read
World Cup rivalries: David Beckham vs. Diego Simeone, Zinedine Zidane vs. Marco Materazzi and Pele vs. Bobby Moore are in our best World Cup player rivalries. Read
VAR: What it means for the World Cup finals. Read
Iceland: Remember the darlings of Euro 2016? Now they want to shock the world. And, says Nick Ames, there’s more to them than that thunderclap. Read
Mo Salah: Egypt’s agonising wait for its talisman. Read
Best World Cup mascots: From the cuddly to the surreal to the conceptual art projects, the World Cup mascots down the years have been a rather mixed bunch. Read
How the World Cup affects MLS: With MLS only taking a short break during the World Cup, we look at which teams could be hardest hit. Read
Letters From Russia
Eliot Rothwell visits the hosts cities for an inside look at Russia.
Kazan: The city is shared by ethnic Tatars and ethnic Russians, by Islam and Orthodoxy, but everything coexists in harmony in a modern, globalized city. Read
Nizhny Novgorod: It was ‘closed’ to foreigners for much of its existence, but since the Soviet Union fell, it has been warming to outside culture. Read
Sochi: It was developed as a place for Russia’s regular folk to get a beach holiday, but it’s becoming another playground for the elite. Read
Exploding Heads group previews
Group A: Intimidating crests & Salah’s meteoric rise
Group B: Ronaldo quiz & Carlos Queiroz ‘exclusive’
Group C: French Mourinho & undercover research
Group D: The World Cup’s nice group
Group E: Be very afraid of Brazil’s squad
Group F: The best team with the worst nickname
Group G: Can we just talk about England?
Group H: Poland’s crest, Senegal’s nickname & conundrums
Last Train to Russia
Join Martin Ainstein as he visits each of the stadiums in the host cities to see what the competing nations can expect.
The best of Last Train to Russia
Last Train to Russia debuts
Ekaterinburg
Kaliningrad
Kazan
Moscow
Nizhny Novgorod
Rostov-on-Don
St Petersburg
Samara
Saransk
Sochi
Volgograd
Exploding Heads: England’s going home!
Frank Leboeuf: Pogba won’t start for France
World Cup Predictor: Ronaldo or Messi, Mexico or England & more
Mourinho makes World Cup group stage predictions
Iran the first team to arrive in Russia for the World Cup
Ian Darke’s ultimate World Cup XI
Brazil’s World Cup puzzle begins to take shape
Mariner: Germany leaving out Sane is a jaw-dropper
Can Spain overcome their lack of clinical scorers?
Exploding Heads’ eclectic World Cup museum
How far can Messi carry Argentina this time around?
Will Argentina regret Mauro Icardi snub?
How much will Argentina miss Sergio Romero?
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