Yekaterinburg is among the eleven cities that will host the matches of the 2018 world football championship. Several matches of the group stage of the World Cup will take place in the Urals.
Unlike several other cities that host football matches of the main championship of the planet, in Yekaterinburg, spectators will not be able to see the playoffs. However, the Ural fans will not be left without a big football holiday - four group stage matches will be played at the renewed Yekaterinburg-Arena.
In the first meeting at the stadium in Yekaterinburg, teams from group A will converge. The opening of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in the capital of the Urals is scheduled for June 15. On this day, the rivals of the Russian national team in quartet - the teams of Egypt and Uruguay - will enter the green lawn. Spectators will be able to watch with their own eyes the game of the outstanding South American strikers Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani. Of particular interest is the Egyptian national team, in particular the main star of the team from the English "Liverpool" Muhammad Salah.
The star team of France will play their second match in Yekaterinburg. The 1998 World Cup winners have a remarkable generation of footballers capable of claiming medals of the highest standard. On June 21, in the second round in Group C, the French national team will play with the interesting South American team of Peru.
Yekaterinburg will not do without a match, in which opponents from the Asian and African regions will take part. In the second round of Group H, the national teams of Japan and Senegal will play against each other. The game will take place on Sunday 24 June.
The final match of the 2018 World Cup in Yekaterinburg will be the confrontation between the national teams of Mexico and Sweden. These teams were drawn to Group F, where, in addition to them, the Germans and the footballers of South Korea will play. This quartet is considered one of the strongest in the tournament. Therefore, a lot in the final distribution of places depends on the game of the third round Mexico - Sweden. This match will take place in Yekaterinburg on June 27th.
Visually, the schedule of all matches of the 2018 World Cup in Yekaterinburg is as follows.
