Norway shocks Brazil as England beats Mexico in World Cup upset

Norway stunned Brazil 2-1 behind two goals from Erling Haaland, while England edged Mexico 3-2 with a pair from Jude Bellingham and another from Harry Kane, delivering two early results that fit the volatility of FIFA’s expanded World Cup. The wins put traditional powers under pressure in a tournament where a single upset can quickly reshape the bracket and the storyline.

FIFA describes the 2026 competition as the 23rd edition of the World Cup and the first to feature 48 teams across three host countries: Canada, Mexico and the United States. The tournament runs from June 11 to July 19, 2026, and includes 104 matches spread across 16 cities, a schedule that gives every group-stage result added weight in the race toward the knockout rounds.

That wider format has changed the stakes for every heavyweight. Brazil’s defeat to Norway and Mexico’s loss to England landed in the opening stretch of a competition built around a longer route to elimination, more teams in contention, and more opportunities for established powers to stumble before the bracket narrows. In that setting, Haaland’s brace against Brazil carried more than one result’s worth of consequence, while Bellingham and Kane made England’s 3-2 win stand out as a clean advance through a difficult field.

FIFA’s official tournament coverage tracks results, statistics, line-ups and match summaries in real time, underscoring how closely these games are being watched across the international field. Brazil, Mexico, England and Norway all sit within that live competition ecosystem, and the official fixtures hub has made each scoreline immediately visible as the first phase of the 2026 World Cup develops.

For Brazil and Mexico, the losses were more than isolated setbacks. In a World Cup with 48 entrants and 104 fixtures, every group-stage result feeds directly into the next stage of the tournament, and victories by Norway and England now shape both the standings and the early narrative of a championship that is already producing pressure on the sport’s traditional powers.