Qatar face Switzerland as World Cup campaign begins

Switzerland vs Qatar opens today

Your World Cup starts now. Qatar face Switzerland in the opening match of the 2026 tournament on Saturday (1) (2). It is the first chance to erase the memory of 2022, when Qatar became the only host nation in World Cup history to lose their opening game. No score prediction is available yet, but the moment is here.

Fan reactions

Fans on Reddit are already circling the historical angle. One post points out that all three 2026 host nations, Mexico, Canada, and the USA, avoided defeat in their first matches, putting Qatar's 2022 loss to Ecuador back under the spotlight as the only opening-game defeat by a host in World Cup history. The tone is part stat-geek, part hopeful: the consensus is that Saturday is the day to finally bury that record. See the full thread