Spain will face Peru in their final friendly before the World Cup

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·26 March 2026

Spain will face Peru in their final friendly before the World Cup

Spain, one of the favorites to win the World Cup (from June 11 to July 19), announced this Thursday that its final warm-up friendly before the tournament will be against Peru on June 8 in Puebla, Mexico.

“Estadio Cuauhtémoc will host the final test Spain will undergo after arriving on the American continent and before the start of the World Cup. Just seven days before its World Cup debut, the Spanish national team will travel to Mexico to face Peru,” the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) said in its statement.

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The national team is currently gathered for two warm-up matches: one this Friday against Serbia in Villarreal — a fixture added to the calendar to replace the game originally planned against Argentina in Doha, which would have been the Finalissima but was ultimately canceled — and another next Tuesday against Egypt in Cornellà (near Barcelona).

As part of its World Cup preparations, Spain has scheduled a friendly on home soil for June 4 at Riazor Stadium in La Coruña against Iraq.

The match against Peru, a national team that failed to qualify for the World Cup, will serve as a full dress rehearsal for Luis de la Fuente’s squad, which will set up its tournament base camp in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Spain and Peru have already faced each other three times, with the European side winning all of them. The most recent was a friendly played in May 2008 in Huelva, which Spain won 2-1. That match served as a prelude to the European Championship, a tournament in which the team, then coached by Luis Aragonés, would go on to win the title.

World Cup debut

The Spanish national team will make its World Cup debut against Cape Verde on June 15 in Atlanta, United States. Part of Group H, the team will also face Saudi Arabia on June 21, also in Atlanta, and Uruguay on June 26 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

With content from AFP*

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