GoKawiilFans ready to watch FIFA World Cup 2026 -- undoubtedly the biggest TV sports event of the summer -- have plenty of ways to keep up with the tournament from home. Xfinity is offering its customers a slate of FIFA-ready features, Fox One access and the ability to watch matches in English and Spanish, Comcast announced Tuesday. The soccer event will run from June 11 through July 19, with more than 104 matches and 48 teams from around the globe.
Are you a Xumo Stream Box customer? You can now use the Fox One app, which is the streaming platform carrying every single World Cup game. The service has now been integrated into Xumo, but you'll still need a paid subscription to watch.
For Xfinity X1 customers, the home page will light up with World Cup action in the Sports Zone hub, where customers will find upcoming live matches, stats, clips (the platform's short-form vertical videos) and ways to follow individual teams. If you saw all the Winter Olympic events this past February, you may already be familiar with X1's RealTime 4K technology, Fan View, AI-powered DVR and tweakable, DIY Multiview feeds.
CNET had a look at a demo of the layout for the World Cup, noting that all these features are available during the tournament, and additionally, Spanish and English voice commands that summon FIFA-related content are built into the experience. Say "Copa Mundial" into your voice remote, call out a team name like "World Cup Argentina," or speak other phrases to find what you want. You can even open Peacock with a voice command to stream its Telemundo matches in Spanish.
Xfinity's Clips -- vertical videos -- will be available in Spanish. Comcast/Xfinity
All 104 World Cup matches will stream in RealTime 4K in English, along with one select Spanish-language game of the day from Telemundo. The platform's 4K feed during the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics was only "17 seconds behind the action on the field," said Kelly Wright, Comcast's director of sports product and strategy.
With the AI-assisted DVR function, playback will include marked highlights like saves, goals and penalty kicks. Multiview is customizable and lets you zoom in on a single screen, switch the audio among feeds, or rotate which screen you want to expand. And if you also have an Apple TV subscription, you're able to add live F1 races to your four-screen feed if you want -- as you simultaneously stream FIFA matches or any other live sports event. A fifth panel on the right shows you up-to-date sports stats. The Fan View feature not only lets you keep up with stats and standings, but also lets you set it to follow different countries during the World Cup or take a shortcut to Xfinity's clips feature.
Pick your own multiview feeds, whether it's a World Cup game or other live sports event. Comcast/Xfinity
To help curb potential glitches, Comcast is planning to launch what's called smart boost Wi-Fi, a new feature that lets internet customers prioritize where Wi-Fi juice flows. If you have multiple devices connected -- smart TVs, gaming consoles, phones, computers and so on -- you can select where to give the signal an extra boost.
"It takes the Wi-Fi device that you're watching the game on -- watching in RealTime 4K -- and it says, 'hit OK to get the smoothest Wi-Fi if this gets busy,' and then it will prioritize the traffic to that device for the next five hours," explained Wright.
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