How Fans Watched the 2026 World Cup
20,253 printed schedules, 4,302 custom calendars, and one very busy night before kickoff
This site exists to answer a single question: when does the match start where you are? Between April and August 2026 we kept count — anonymously and in aggregate — of what people did with the answer. Not who they were. What they built, printed, and planned.
Here is what a World Cup looks like from the inside.
The rush before kickoff
Downloads climbed gently through May, then went vertical in the first week of June. The single biggest day was 10 June — 2,129 schedules, the day before the opening match. 11 June came second with 2,091.
Put another way: roughly one in five of every schedule this site has ever produced was downloaded in that 48-hour window. The tournament had not kicked off yet, and people were already pinning it to the wall.
There is a second, smaller spike at the end of June. That is 28 June — the first day of the round of 32 — when 471 people came back for a schedule that reflected who had actually qualified. Group-stage planning is one job; knockout planning is a different one.
Where fans were reading from
Visitors arrived from 215 countries and territories. The United States leading is no surprise for a tournament played across North America. Second place is the surprise.
Roughly one in five visits came from Japan. For a tournament kicking off in the Americas, Japan draws close to the worst kickoff times in the world — most matches land somewhere between 2 AM and 9 AM in Tokyo. That is exactly the situation this site was built for, and Japanese fans found it in numbers nobody predicted.
Nine languages
The site ships in nine language editions. Here is how they were actually used.
Japanese was comfortably the largest non-English edition, followed by Spanish and French. The German and Dutch editions launched partway through this period, so their share reflects a shorter run rather than a lack of interest.
Planned on a laptop, checked on a phone
| Device | Share of visits |
|---|---|
| Desktop / laptop | 59.2% |
| Phone | 39.6% |
| Tablet | 1.2% |
Nearly six in ten visits came from a desktop or laptop, which runs against the grain for a sports site in 2026. The likeliest explanation is what people came here to do: printing a wall chart, building a calendar and mapping a month of football around work are laptop jobs. The phone traffic clusters around the matches-today page — the quick check on the way to the pub.
The teams people looked up
Team pages were a small corner of the site next to the schedule and the printable, so treat this as a curiosity rather than a popularity contest. Still, the order is telling:
- England
- Argentina
- France
- Brazil
- Netherlands
- Spain
- Canada
- Norway
- Portugal
- Colombia
England and Argentina at the top is predictable enough. Norway at eighth is not — a country of five million, back at a World Cup after 28 years away, punching far above its population. Their fans also had one of the roughest schedules at the tournament, which is presumably why they came looking.
How we counted
These figures come from aggregate site analytics covering 4 April to 18 August 2026. They describe what happened on the site in total — schedules generated, calendars created, pages viewed — not what any individual did. We do not sell visitor data and we do not build profiles of readers. Country and language figures are shares of visits, rounded to one decimal place. See our privacy policy for what is and is not collected.
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