France vs Morocco: How to Watch the 2026 World Cup Quarterfinal on TV and Stream, Wherever You Are

The quick answer: date, time, venue and channels at a glance

France vs Morocco is a FIFA World Cup 2026 quarterfinal, played Thursday, July 9, 2026, with kickoff at 4:00 pm Eastern Time. The venue is Boston Stadium, which is what FIFA calls Gillette Stadium during the tournament. The ground sits in Foxborough, Massachusetts, about 30 miles southwest of downtown Boston, and is the regular home of the New England Patriots and the New England Revolution.

If you only remember one line, make it this one: USA viewers watch on FOX in English or Telemundo in Spanish, Peacock streams the Spanish feed, Moroccan fans watch free on SNRT's Al Aoula and Arryadia or on beIN SPORTS, French fans have the free-to-air M6 network alongside beIN SPORTS, Canadians tune in to TSN and CTV in English or RDS in French, and UK fans will find it on the BBC or ITV depending on the confirmed split.

The stakes could not be bigger. The winner goes to the semifinals of the first 48-team World Cup. For Morocco, it is a shot at a second consecutive semifinal after the historic run in Qatar in 2022. For France, it is a chance to keep alive a bid for a third final in a row. And of course, it is a direct rematch of that unforgettable 2022 semifinal in Al Khor, which France won 2-0 before losing the final to Argentina.

Morocco arrive on a wave after dismantling Canada 3-0 in the round of 16 in Houston on July 4, with Azzedine Ounahi scoring twice and Soufiane Rahimi adding a third in stoppage time. France needed a 70th-minute Kylian Mbappe penalty to get past a stubborn Paraguay side 1-0 in Philadelphia the same day. Two contrasting paths, one colossal quarterfinal.

Everything below is organized by country, followed by kickoff times around the world, free legal viewing options, a guide to the stadium, ticket information and where to find highlights if you miss it live.

What time is France vs Morocco? Kickoff in every major time zone

Kickoff is set for 4:00 pm Eastern Time on Thursday, July 9, 2026. Because this World Cup is spread across North America, Eastern Time is the tournament's reference clock for East Coast venues like Boston. Here is what that means wherever you are watching from.

United States and Canada: 4:00 pm Eastern (New York, Toronto, Montreal, Boston itself), 3:00 pm Central (Chicago, Houston, Winnipeg), 2:00 pm Mountain (Denver, Calgary), and 1:00 pm Pacific (Los Angeles, Vancouver). It is an afternoon game for all of North America, perfect for a long lunch that turns into an early evening celebration.

Morocco: 9:00 pm across the Kingdom. Morocco stays on UTC+1 through the summer, so the Atlas Lions kick off at 21h00 in Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakech, Tangier, Agadir and everywhere in between. Cafes will be packed from Derb Sultan to Jamaa el Fna, and the timing could not be better for a full national watch party.

France and Central Europe: 10:00 pm Central European Summer Time in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Madrid and Berlin. A late kickoff, but nobody in France or in the Moroccan diaspora across Europe is going to bed before this one ends.

United Kingdom and Ireland: 9:00 pm British Summer Time in London, Manchester and Dublin. GMT purists should note the pure UTC time is 8:00 pm, since the UK sits one hour ahead of GMT in July.

Gulf and Middle East: 11:00 pm in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iraq (UTC+3), and midnight sharp into Friday, July 10 in the UAE and Oman (UTC+4). In Cairo it is 10:00 pm, in Algiers and Tunis 9:00 pm. beIN SPORTS carries the match across the entire region.

Elsewhere: 5:00 pm in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, 6:00 am Friday in Sydney, 5:00 am Friday in Tokyo, and 1:30 am Friday in India. Set the alarm, it will be worth it.

How to watch in the USA: FOX, Telemundo and Peacock

In the United States, the 2026 World Cup broadcast rights belong to FOX Sports in English and NBCUniversal's Telemundo in Spanish, and a marquee quarterfinal like France vs Morocco sits right in the shop window of both. FOX is airing the large majority of the tournament's 104 matches on its free over-the-air broadcast network, with the remainder on FS1, and every match streams on the FOX Sports app and FOX One. Check your local listings on the day, but expect a game of this magnitude on big FOX.

Spanish-language coverage runs through Telemundo, which is broadcasting 92 of the 104 matches free over the air, with the rest on Universo. Telemundo's World Cup commentary is a cultural institution in its own right, and the Andres Cantor goal call is worth the price of admission alone. The price, by the way, can be zero: Telemundo is a free antenna channel in most US markets.

For streaming, Peacock is the headline option. NBCUniversal's service carries Spanish-language live streams of every single World Cup match, including this quarterfinal, and Peacock subscriptions start at a few dollars a month, with free-access promotions through partners like Walmart+ periodically available. On the English side, the FOX One service and the FOX Sports app stream the FOX and FS1 feeds, and live TV bundles like YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, Fubo and DirecTV Stream all carry FOX and FS1.

The genuinely free route in the US is old technology doing new work: a simple digital TV antenna, often 20 to 35 dollars, pulls in both FOX and Telemundo over the air in HD at no monthly cost. If the match lands on the main FOX network as expected, an antenna plus a couch is the entire setup.

Free trials are the other lever. Several live TV streaming services offer trial windows for new subscribers, and a well-timed sign-up covers the whole quarterfinal weekend. Just remember to cancel before billing if you only came for the football, although with semifinals and a final still to come, you may want to keep it.

How to watch in Morocco: free on SNRT, full coverage on beIN SPORTS

This is the question half the Kingdom is asking, and the answer is beautiful: Morocco's matches are free to watch on national television. Morocco's public broadcaster SNRT reached an agreement with regional rights holder beIN SPORTS to sublicense the national team's World Cup matches, which means the Atlas Lions' quarterfinal against France airs free-to-air on SNRT channels, led by Al Aoula and the dedicated sports channel Arryadia.

SNRT channels are available over the air across Morocco via TNT, on satellite, and through the SNRT Live app and website, which stream the channels free for viewers in Morocco. For millions of households, watching Ounahi, Hakimi and Bounou take on France costs exactly nothing: turn on Al Aoula or Arryadia at 9:00 pm and you are in.

beIN SPORTS remains the premium home of the tournament across the Middle East and North Africa, carrying every one of the 104 matches live on its dedicated World Cup channels with deep pre-match and post-match studio coverage. If you want multi-language commentary options, alternative camera feeds and wall-to-wall analysis, beIN is the full-fat experience, available via subscription on satellite and through the beIN CONNECT streaming service in MENA markets.

For the Moroccan diaspora, rights are territorial: SNRT's free coverage is intended for Morocco, so fans in Europe or North America should use their local broadcaster instead. The good news, as this guide shows, is that the match is on free-to-air or mainstream television in France, Spain via its rights holder, Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada and the US, so a Moroccan flag draped over a couch in Paris, Brussels or Montreal is never far from a legal broadcast.

Expect the country to stop for the evening either way. When Morocco beat Portugal in the 2022 quarterfinal, celebrations stretched from Casablanca to the Champs-Elysees. A win over France on July 9 would top even that, and this time the free national broadcast means nobody is left outside the moment.

How to watch in France: M6 free-to-air and beIN SPORTS

There is a genuine historic twist in France this summer: for the first time in more than four decades, TF1 is not broadcasting the World Cup. The free-to-air rights for 2026 belong to the M6 group, which is showing 54 matches in clear, including every France national team match, both semifinals and the final. beIN SPORTS holds the rights to the full slate of all 104 matches on subscription.

For France vs Morocco, that means the quarterfinal is available free on M6, since Les Bleus' matches are part of the free-to-air package, and simultaneously on beIN SPORTS for subscribers who prefer its dedicated football coverage. Always confirm the channel on the day in the official programme grids, but a France quarterfinal is exactly the kind of fixture the M6 deal was built around.

Streaming in France runs through M6+ , the group's free streaming platform, which carries the M6 broadcast live, and through beIN CONNECT for beIN subscribers. beIN SPORTS subscriptions in France start around 15 euros per month without commitment, and the channel is also distributed through Canal+, Orange, SFR, Bouygues and Free TV bundles.

This fixture has a special electricity in France beyond the sport itself. France is home to the largest Moroccan community in Europe, and the 2022 semifinal between the two nations was one of the most-watched broadcasts in French television history. Expect the 10:00 pm kickoff to empty the streets and fill every cafe from Barbes to the Vieux-Port in Marseille.

One practical note for viewers in France: the match starts at 22h00 and could stretch past midnight with extra time and penalties, since knockout rounds must produce a winner. Plan the evening accordingly, and maybe the morning after too.

How to watch in Canada: TSN, CTV and RDS

Canada's broadcaster for the 2026 World Cup is Bell Media, which holds exclusive Canadian rights and is airing all 104 matches. English coverage runs on TSN and CTV, French coverage on RDS and Noovo, and streaming is available through TSN+, the CTV app and Crave. Canadian fans just watched their own team's brave run ended by Morocco in the round of 16, so they know exactly how dangerous the Atlas Lions are.

For the quarterfinals specifically, Bell Media has placed all four matches on CTV as well as TSN, which means France vs Morocco is on free, widely available network television across Canada in English, with RDS carrying the French-language broadcast that much of Quebec will choose. At 4:00 pm Eastern on a July Thursday, expect Montreal, home to one of the largest Moroccan communities in North America, to sound a lot like Casablanca.

Cord-cutters in Canada can stream the match through TSN+ or via Crave's live CTV channel, and RDS offers its own direct streaming subscription for French speakers. Anyone with a basic cable or IPTV package almost certainly already has CTV, TSN and RDS included.

There is a poetic angle for Canadian neutrals: the team that knocked out Les Rouges now carries the flag for underdogs everywhere against the tournament favourites. After Ounahi's brace in Houston drew applause even from Canadian pundits, do not be surprised if a lot of Canada quietly pulls for Morocco on Thursday.

How to watch in the UK, Ireland and the rest of the world

In the United Kingdom, the World Cup is shared between the BBC and ITV, both free to air. The two broadcasters split the knockout rounds, with each showing two of the four quarterfinals, so France vs Morocco will land on either BBC One or ITV1 with streaming on BBC iPlayer or ITVX respectively. The specific pick is confirmed close to the round, so check the day's listings, but either way it is free with a UK TV licence. Kickoff is 9:00 pm BST, prime time.

In Ireland, RTE traditionally carries World Cup coverage free to air, and in Australia the tournament's free home is SBS, where the match kicks off at 6:00 am Sydney time on Friday morning, with streaming on SBS On Demand. New Zealand, Japan, India and most of Asia have the game in the small hours of Friday through their national rights holders.

Across Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, the match is carried by each country's World Cup rights holder, a mix of free-to-air networks and sports subscription services. Rights maps for all 104 matches are documented publicly, and the Wikipedia page for 2026 World Cup broadcasting rights, linked in the sources below, maintains a country-by-country list if yours is not covered here.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, coverage is led by the continent's main sports broadcasters alongside selected free-to-air deals, and the whole continent will be watching: Morocco are the last African side standing, chasing a place in a second consecutive World Cup semifinal, a feat no African nation had achieved even once before Qatar 2022.

Wherever you are, one rule applies: use the official rights holder in your country. The streams are sharper, the commentary is better, and you are not one dodgy pop-up away from ruining your device before the biggest match of the summer.

Free and legal ways to watch France vs Morocco

Let us make the zero-dollar options explicit, because for this match there are many. In Morocco: SNRT's Al Aoula and Arryadia, free over the air and via SNRT Live. In France: M6, free over the air and on the M6+ streaming platform. In the UK: BBC One or ITV1, free with iPlayer or ITVX. In Canada: CTV over the air and RDS for francophones. In the US: FOX and Telemundo over the air with a cheap antenna, plus Peacock promotions and live TV service free trials.

That is a remarkable list. In almost every country with a big stake in this fixture, the quarterfinal is on free television. That is not an accident: broadcasters fought for this match precisely because France against Morocco is appointment viewing for tens of millions, from Rabat to Rouen to Repentigny.

A word about VPNs, because every how-to-watch article owes you honesty here. Broadcast rights are sold per territory, and using a VPN to access another country's free stream generally violates the streaming service's terms of use, even where the tools themselves are legal. With this many genuinely free, legal, high-quality options across North America, Europe and Morocco, there is very little reason to bother.

Beware, too, of unofficial streaming sites that surface around big matches. They are the classic vector for malware, crypto-mining scripts and phishing, their streams lag minutes behind the broadcast, and they have a habit of dying right before the penalty is taken. Free and legal beats free and sketchy every time.

If you are out and about, sports bars and cafes in every major city will carry the match, and both FOX Sports and beIN publish venue finders and viewing party listings during the tournament. In Morocco, of course, the entire country becomes the viewing party.

The venue: Boston Stadium, aka Gillette Stadium, Foxborough

FIFA calls it Boston Stadium for the tournament, but locals know it as Gillette Stadium, the 65,000-plus capacity home of the NFL's New England Patriots and MLS side New England Revolution, located in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The stadium opened in 2002, is instantly recognizable by its lighthouse and bridge at the north entrance, and has hosted everything from Super Bowl-bound playoff runs to international soccer friendlies and major concerts.

For the World Cup, the stadium received a natural grass playing surface in place of its usual artificial turf, in line with FIFA requirements applied across the tournament's NFL venues. Boston Stadium is one of the eleven US host venues and has staged matches throughout the group stage and knockout rounds, with this quarterfinal its marquee fixture.

Getting there: Foxborough sits roughly halfway between Boston and Providence, Rhode Island. On event days, the MBTA typically runs special commuter rail service from Boston's South Station directly to Foxboro station at the stadium, and driving fans face the famous Route 1 matchday traffic, so early arrival is the golden rule. FIFA's official channels publish transport guidance for each match day.

New England's soccer crowd will be joined by two enormous traveling supports. The US Northeast is home to large French and Moroccan communities, from the French expat networks of Boston and New York to the Moroccan neighborhoods of New York City and New Jersey, only a few hours down I-95. Expect the red of Morocco to be loud: at every Morocco match this tournament, from the Netherlands epic to the Canada rout in Houston, the Atlas Lions have effectively played at home.

The weather in Massachusetts in early July is typically warm and humid, with late-afternoon kickoff temperatures often in the high 20s Celsius, mid 80s Fahrenheit. Hydration for those in the stands, air conditioning for the rest of us.

How they got here: Morocco's statement, France's grind

Morocco's round of 16 performance in Houston on July 4 was a statement heard around the tournament. After a cagey first half against co-hosts Canada, the Atlas Lions detonated. Azzedine Ounahi collected a free kick from Achraf Hakimi in the 50th minute and arrowed a right-footed strike through traffic into the bottom corner. In the 82nd, Ounahi finished a lightning counter fed by Brahim Diaz. Then in stoppage time Diaz, with a record fourth assist of the campaign for an African player at a World Cup, released substitute Soufiane Rahimi to make it 3-0.

The clean sheet mattered as much as the goals. Yassine Bounou, the hero of the shootout win over the Netherlands in the round before, barely broke sweat behind a back line marshalled by Hakimi in front of a Houston crowd that sounded like the Stade Mohammed V. Morocco became the first African nation ever to reach the World Cup quarterfinals more than once, adding 2026 to the ground they broke in Qatar.

France, meanwhile, ground it out. Against a disciplined Paraguay bloc in Philadelphia on the same day, Les Bleus struggled to break through until a penalty arrived in the 70th minute. Kylian Mbappe sent goalkeeper Orlando Gill the wrong way for the only goal, his seventh of the tournament, moving him level at the top of the Golden Boot race with Lionel Messi and further cementing his place among the World Cup's all-time scorers.

The tactical matchup writes itself. France's individual firepower, Mbappe foremost, against the most organized defensive unit and most fervent support in the tournament. Morocco's counterattacking speed through Ounahi, Diaz and Rahimi against a French midfield that was second-best for stretches against Paraguay. Walid Regragui-style fearlessness, now carried forward by this generation, against the tournament's perennial finalists.

And then there is 2022. In Al Khor, France beat Morocco 2-0 in a semifinal decided by Theo Hernandez's early strike and a late Kolo Muani goal, ending the greatest run by an African or Arab side in World Cup history. Every Moroccan player, and every Moroccan fan, has had that scoreline filed away for three and a half years. On July 9, the bill comes due, one round earlier and an ocean away.

Tickets, highlights and replays

Tickets for the quarterfinal are sold exclusively through FIFA's official ticketing portal at FIFA.com/tickets, which also operates the official resale platform where fans can buy face-value-anchored tickets from other fans safely. Quarterfinal demand for a fixture of this size is ferocious, and the official resale platform is the only channel where a ticket is guaranteed to be genuine and to admit you. Avoid third-party marketplaces: FIFA can void tickets resold outside its system.

Hospitality packages, which bundle premium seats with lounge access, remain on sale through FIFA's official hospitality partner while inventory lasts, and are typically the last legitimate route into a sold-out knockout match, at a price.

If you cannot watch live, highlights land fast. In the US, FOX Sports posts match highlights on its site, app and YouTube channel within minutes of the final whistle. In Canada, TSN publishes full highlights packages, like the Canada vs Morocco round of 16 highlights embedded at the top of this article. FIFA's own site and app carry official match reports, extended highlights and full match replays for registered users in many territories, and rights holders like the BBC, ITV, M6 and beIN all run their own on-demand replays.

For the full-replay crowd: Peacock carries Spanish-language replays of every match in the US, FOX's streaming platforms offer English-language replays, and TSN+ and Crave do the job in Canada. In Morocco, SNRT replays national team matches across its channels and digital platforms, and beIN CONNECT archives the tournament for subscribers across MENA.

Set your notifications now: kickoff Thursday, July 9, 4:00 pm ET, 9:00 pm in Morocco, 10:00 pm in France. The winner faces the victor of the other quarterfinal on that side of the bracket for a place in the July 19 final. One hundred and twenty minutes, maybe penalties, and a semifinal on the line. Dima Maghrib.

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