Netflix has teamed up with major sports podcast The Rest Is Football to produce a daily TV show during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Announced on Wednesday, English football greats Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, and Micah Richards will present their popular, Goalhanger-produced podcast for Netflix from New York during the international tournament, which runs from June 11 to July 19, 2026.
Daily episodes of The Rest Is Football will be filmed for Netflix from a New York studio (this year’s World Cup has three host countries: Canada, Mexico and the U.S.), with reporters set to check in from England and other official World Cup fan zones. “Expect all the usual analysis, honesty and plenty of laughs,” Lineker said in a press statement, “just with a few more cameras pointed at us, all from the Big Apple.”
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The three hosts and sporting legends will provide the match commentary, insider knowledge, and interviews the podcast is known for, with Lineker adding, “It’s a fantastic opportunity for the three of us to do what we love — talk football every day — but on a truly global stage.”
The Rest Is Football is the latest Netflix venture into live sports broadcasting, following events like the streamer’s live Las Vegas golf tournament The Netflix Cup in 2023, live boxing matches like the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight in 2024, live weekly WWE Raw shows launched in Jan. 2025, and the NFL Christmas Games which launched in 2024 and became the most streamed NFL games in U.S. history — Netflix is running these again this year.
With streaming competitors like Apple and Amazon also racing to top the sports streaming game through billion-dollar deals, The Rest Is Football is another (very popular) feather in Netflix’s cap. It’s undeniably one of the top sports podcasts on the planet, with over 7 million monthly streams, and reporting 19.6 million downloads and YouTube views during the Euro 2024 in July last year.
Game on.
