Canada is co-hosting the World Cup for the first time, with games in Toronto and Vancouver, and the national team in it as hosts. The flip side: Canadian coverage is almost entirely paid. Unlike the UK or France, there's no big free-to-air slice — the rights sit with the sports broadcasters and they want a subscription.
Here's how the Canadian coverage breaks down, where the host nation's games land, and the simplest way to catch every match.
Which channels show the World Cup in Canada
The national English-language sports broadcaster holds the English rights, with some games simulcast on a national network, and the French-language sports broadcaster carries the French coverage for Quebec and francophone viewers. Both are paid channels — through a cable package or their standalone streaming subscriptions — and there's very little available free over the air.
That makes Canada one of the paywall markets: to follow the tournament properly you're paying one way or another, whether that's a cable bundle or a standalone sports-broadcaster streaming plan.
Why there's no easy free route
Some countries put a big chunk of the World Cup on public free-to-air channels. Canada isn't one of them. With the national sports broadcasters holding the rights and no free national broadcaster carrying the full slate, the cheapest honest route is a single subscription that covers the channels showing the games rather than stacking a cable package on top of streaming add-ons.
iBostreaming carries the channels covering the tournament — the English and French feeds among them — in one app, on the device you already own, with a 14-day money-back guarantee so you can test it on a real match before committing.
Canada's fixtures — Group B
As hosts, Canada were drawn into Group B with Bosnia & Herzegovina, Qatar and Switzerland. The three group games are below with kick-off in Eastern time and a link to each match's full details. Top two through, plus the best-third-placed route in the 48-team format.