Interest in football in Kaliningrad will reach a new level in 2018. This will be facilitated by the holding of the main football tournament of the four-year period. The new handsome Arena Baltica stadium will host four matches of the upcoming World Cup.
Among the twelve football arenas of the 2018 World Cup, Arena Baltika, along with the stadium in Saransk, is the smallest in terms of capacity. However, this 35,000-seat stadium will still host the best teams of the planet that made it to the final stage of the World Cup.
The first match in Kaliningrad as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup is the confrontation between the national teams of Croatia and Nigeria. This game is scheduled for June 16th. The opponents will play against each other in the first round of Quartet D.
The fans will have to wait a long time for the second game in Kaliningrad. Only on June 22, football teams from Serbia and Switzerland will enter the Arena Baltika field. This will be a confrontation between teams from Group E in the second round. The game will be of particular importance for the opponents, because its result may well contribute to the struggle for a ticket to the playoffs from the group, in which the teams of Brazil and Costa Rica will also play.
Residents and guests of Kaliningrad will be able to watch the game of outstanding Spanish footballers. The Spanish national team will play their final game here in the group stage in Quartet B. The opponents of the Spaniards will be the players of the Moroccan national team. The likelihood of seeing many goals scored in this match is very high, because African footballers are significantly inferior in terms of their level to titled Europeans. The game will take place on June 25th.
Perhaps the most interesting and status match of the 2018 World Cup in Kaliningrad is the confrontation between the national teams of Belgium and England. With a high degree of probability, these national teams in the meeting of the final round of Group G will challenge each other for the final first place in the quartet. Among all the matches in the World Cup group stage, this game is expected to be one of the most interesting and unpredictable.
The full schedule of the 2018 World Cup matches in Kaliningrad is presented as follows.
