The 2026 World Cup is a bigger planning problem than a normal tournament site suggests.
It runs from June 11 to July 19, 2026, with 48 teams, 104 matches and venues across the United States, Canada and Mexico. A single list of fixtures is useful, but it does not answer the practical questions people usually have:
Which matches happen in a specific host city?
Which team plays on which date?
Which games belong to the knockout path?
Can the schedule be downloaded as a PDF, Excel file or CSV?
Where should TV, ticket and travel planning fit into the workflow?
That is why I built a small static planning site around the full tournament schedule:
World Cup 2026 Schedule
Why a Static Site Was Enough
The schedule data is mostly structured and read-heavy. Users need fast pages, stable URLs, clear internal links and downloadable files more than they need a heavy application shell.
The project generates static HTML pages from structured match data. That makes it easier to create:
A full 104-match schedule table
Individual match detail pages
Team schedule pages
Host city schedule pages
Bracket and final-week route pages
Download pages for PDF, Excel and CSV files
A sitemap that search engines can crawl cleanly
The public site is deployed as static output on Cloudflare Pages.
The Main Schedule Hub
The core page is the schedule hub:
Full World Cup 2026 Schedule Table
It is designed to answer the broad search intent first: when the tournament starts, how many matches it has, where it is hosted, and how the full fixture table can be scanned.
From there, users can move into deeper guides instead of trying to solve every task on one page.
Downloadable Schedule Files
A lot of users do not want to stay inside a website. They want a file they can save, print, sort or share.
So the site includes separate pages for:
World Cup 2026 Schedule PDF
World Cup 2026 Schedule Excel and CSV
This keeps the main schedule page focused, while giving spreadsheet users and printable-file users a clearer path.
Host City and Bracket Pages
The same fixture data also supports city and route planning.
For example, someone planning around venues needs host city pages:
World Cup 2026 Host Cities Schedule
Someone following the tournament path needs bracket context:
World Cup 2026 Schedule Bracket
These pages are intentionally more specific. They link back to the schedule hub, but they do not try to replace it.
What I Would Keep Improving
The next layer is less about generating more pages and more about improving usefulness:
Better mobile schedule scanning
Stronger city-page summaries
Clearer source notes for downloadable files
More internal links from news updates into the schedule hub
Ongoing QA for sitemap, canonical URLs and 404 behavior
For this kind of project, the hard part is not only publishing the data. It is organizing the data into pages that match real planning tasks.
That is the main lesson from building the site: a good schedule page is not just a table. It is a navigation hub for dates, teams, cities, downloads, tickets, TV and bracket paths.
Project site:
https://worldcup2026schedule.net/world-cup-2026-schedule/
GitHub repository:
https://github.com/alabamajumia-del/wc2026schedule
Publishing Checklist
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