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:

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:

   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.