BBC Red Button TV Guide — Saturday, 18 July 2026

Coverage of the third-place play-off (Kick-off 10.00pm), which takes place at Miami Stadium in the USA. While few teams will want to play in this contest after such a long competition and having fallen one step short of the final, it does offer both sides an opportunity to sign off on a positive note, and perhaps offer some players who had little game time a chance to shine on the world stage. Despite losing 2-1 to Croatia in Qatar four years ago, a fourth-placed finish for Morocco was still the best performance at a World Cup by any African or Arab nation, and four years prior to that Belgium claimed a 2-0 triumph over Gareth Southgate's England in Saint Petersburg, which was the best performance of any Belgian side at a World Cup finals, and the second time England had finished fourth after also doing so at Italia 90