Here’s 2023 World Lacrosse Championship livestream: schedule, how to watch

Here’s 2023 World Lacrosse Championship livestream: schedule, how to watch

In 2023, World Lacrosse will host the 14th edition of their annual World Lacrosse Championship, an international men’s field lacrosse competition for national teams. It had been planned for 2022, but the pandemic of COVID-19 forced a delay until 2023. San Diego, California is going to be the host city of the event. For the first time, the competition is open to the top 30 teams that qualify from their respective regional tournaments. The following is a rundown of everything pertinent to the tournament. 

2023 World Lacrosse Championship Tournament details

Date: June 21 – July 1 Venue: Snapdragon Stadium, Torero Stadium Location: San Diego, California Host country: United States Network: ESPN  Stream: Watch Live All Games Online Here

Men’s Lacrosse Nations participating in 2023 

For the first time ever, the number of participating teams at the World Lacrosse Championship has been capped at 30 national teams for the year 2023. The amount of remaining seats for the 2023 World Championship was divided among the Continental Federations based on their previous rankings. Regional qualifiers will be held for the remaining teams in the European Lacrosse Federation (11 spots), Pan American Lacrosse Association (4 spots), Asia Pacific Lacrosse Union (4 spots), and the African Association of Lacrosse (1 spot). The top 10 full member nations at the conclusion of the 2018 world championship qualified for 2023 automatically. Finland had originally qualified through the European qualifications, but they dropped out owing to financial difficulties, and France took their place.

Men’s lacrosse tournament Pool Play

Opening game – Wednesday, 21 June Pool play – Thursday 22 June to Monday 26 June Pool A

  • Australia
  • Canada
  • England
  • Haudenosaunee
  • United States

Pool B

  • Denmark
  • France
  • Japan
  • Uganda
  • Wales

Pool C

  • Czech Republic
  • Israel
  • Philippines
  • Puerto Rico
  • Sweden 

Pool D

  • Germany
  • Jamaica
  • New Zealand
  • Poland
  • Switzerland

Pool E

  • Austria
  • Hong Kong
  • Italy
  • Mexico
  • Scotland

Pool F

  • Ireland
  • Latvia
  • Netherlands
  • Peru
  • South Korea

How to watch the 2023 World Lacrosse championship live on TV?

The sports broadcasting giant, ESPN will be telecasting all 107 games of the 2023 World Lacrosse championship all across the globe. In addition all games will available exclusively on PremiumTV OTT.  Anyone can watch any matches around the world without any future or monthly subscription. Here is the list of the channels broadcasting the games all over the world:

Country Broadcaster
How to watch in the USA ESPN 2 and ESPN +, In addition you can catch all games via PremiumTV.
How to watch in Canada  TSN and TSN +, In addition you can catch all games via PremiumTV.
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific countries  ESPN Australia – Australia games and select playoff games ESPN2 Pacific Rim Watch ESPN
China  Star Sports
Japan, Korea and Philipines  Recast.tv/WorldLacrosse
Latin America ESPN Extra and ESPN Tres North
South America and Brazil Star+
Caribbean ESPN2 and ESPN Extra

2023 Men’s lacrosse tournament TV channels

United States

  • ESPN2: Opening Game, Semifinals, Gold Medal Match 
  • ESPNU: Quarterfinal featuring USA if team advances, Bronze Medal Match
  • ESPN+: All other games

Canada

  • TSN: Opening Game, Quarterfinal featuring USA if team advances, Semifinals 
  • TSN+: All other matches

Europe, United Kingdom, Middle East, Africa 

  • ESPN Player

Latin America, Brazil 

  • ESPN Tres North 
  • ESPN Extra
  • Star+

Caribbean (excluding Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands) 

  • ESPN and ESPN2 Caribbean – select games
  • ESPN Play

Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands

  • ESPN Australia – Australia games and select playoff games 
  • ESPN Pacific Rim & ESPN2 Pacific Rim, Watch ESPN

China

  • Star Sports China (hotels)

Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea, Philippines

  • Recast.tv/WorldLacrosse: All games

2023 World Men’s lacrosse championship schedule:

The complete schedule of this year’s campaign is shown below:

    Match Date Time (Pacific Time)
Canada vs United States Wednesday, June 21, 2023 7:00 PM
Sweden vs Israel Thursday, June 22, 2023 10:00 AM
Latvia vs Peru Thursday, June 22, 2023 10:00 AM
France vs Japan Thursday, June 22, 2023 01:00 PM
Wales vs Denmark Thursday, June 22, 2023 01:00 PM
Czech Republic vs Puerto Rico Thursday, June 22, 2023 01:00 PM
Scotland vs Mexico Thursday, June 22, 2023 04:00 PM
Italy vs Hong Kong China Thursday, June 22, 2023 04:00 PM
Ireland vs Netherlands Thursday, June 22, 2023 04:00 PM
Germany vs Jamaica Thursday, June 22, 2023 07:00 PM
Switzerland vs New Zealand Thursday, June 22, 2023 07:00 PM
England vs Australia Thursday, June 22, 2023 07:00 PM
Uganda vs Japan Friday, June 23, 2023 10:00 AM
Italy vs Mexico Friday, June 23, 2023 10:00 AM
Korea Republic vs Ireland  Friday, June 23, 2023 10:00 AM
Peru vs Netherlands Friday, June 23, 2023 01:00 PM
Poland vs Germany Friday, June 23, 2023 01:00 PM
Philipines vs Israel Friday, June 23, 2023 01:00 PM
Sweden vs Puerto Rico Friday, June 23, 2023 04:00 PM
HAUDENOSAUNEE vs England Friday, June 23, 2023 04:00 PM
Jamaica vs Switzerland Friday, June 23, 2023 04:00 PM
Denmark vs France  Friday, June 23, 2023 07:00 PM
Austria vs Scotland  Friday, June 23, 2023 07:00 PM
Australia vs United States Friday, June 23, 2023 07:00 PM
Jamaica vs Poland Saturday, June 24, 2023 10:00 AM
Ireland vs Latvia Saturday, June 24, 2023 10:00 AM
New Zealand vs Germany Saturday, June 24, 2023 10:00 AM
Japan vs Wales Saturday, June 24, 2023 1:00 PM
Hong Kong vs Scotland  Saturday, June 24, 2023 1:00 PM
Uganda vs France  Saturday, June 24, 2023 1:00 PM
Puerto Rico vs Philippines Saturday, June 24, 2023 4:00 PM
Mexico vs Austria  Saturday, June 24, 2023 4:00 PM
Australia vs Canada  Saturday, June 24, 2023 4:00 PM
Korea vs Netherlands Saturday, June 24, 2023 7:00 PM
United States vs HAUDENOSAUNEE Saturday, June 24, 2023 7:00 PM
Sweden vs Czech Republic Saturday, June 24, 2023 7:00 PM
Wales vs Uganda  Sunday, June 25, 2023 10:00 AM
Hong Kong vs Austria Sunday, June 25, 2023 10:00 AM
Germany vs Switzerland  Sunday, June 25, 2023 10:00 AM
Scotland vs Italy Sunday, June 25, 2023 1:00 PM
Israel vs Puerto Rico Sunday, June 25, 2023 1:00 PM
Czech republic vs Philippines Sunday, June 25, 2023 1:00 PM
Japan vs Denmark Sunday, June 25, 2023 1:00 PM
United States vs England  Sunday, June 25, 2023 1:00 PM
New Zealand vs Puerto Rico  Sunday, June 25, 2023 1:00 PM
Ireland vs Peru Sunday, June 25, 2023 7:00 PM
Latvia vs Korea Sunday, June 25, 2023 7:00 PM
Canada vs HAUDENOSAUNEE Sunday, June 25, 2023 7:00 PM
France vs Wales Monday, June 26, 2023 10:00 AM
Austria vs Italy Monday, June 26, 2023 10:00 AM
Jamaica vs New Zealand Monday, June 26, 2023 10:00 AM
Mexico vs Honng Kong China Monday, June 26, 2023 1:00 PM
Israel vs Czech Republic Monday, June 26, 2023 1:00 PM
Netherlands vs Latvia  Monday, June 26, 2023 1:00 PM
Austria vs  HAUDENOSAUNEE Monday, June 26, 2023 4:00 PM
Denmark vs Uganda  Monday, June 26, 2023 4:00 PM
Peru vs Korea Republic Monday, June 26, 2023 4:00 PM
Philippines vs Sweden  Monday, June 26, 2023 7:00 PM 
Poland vs Switzerland  Monday, June 26, 2023 7:00 PM 
Canada vs England  Monday, June 26, 2023 7:00 PM 

   2023 World Lacrosse Championship Format: The world Lacrosse championship will be played on the basis of a round-robin format from June 21-26. The top two seeded teams from pool A will be guaranteed a quarterfinal appearance with the remaining core set to battle it out for a place in the quarterfinals with the top nine teams from pools B-F in a single-day playoff.  The playoff will take place on the 27th of June with quarterfinals beginning on the 28th of this month.