Venezuela vs. Colombia: time, TV and where to see the qualifiers live

The Colombian team players celebrate the triumph that the World Cup gave them.

Photo: EFE – Mauricio Dueñas Castañeda

Summary and Fast Informame

Listen to this article

Audio generated with Google

Colombia continues to celebrate its 2026 World Cup classificationafter beating Bolivia 3-0 in Barranquilla on Thursday in a match that became the relief of a hobby that came with the accumulated tension of several dates without victories. Néstor Lorenzo's team found forcefulness in the attack and defensive solidity, showing the best version at the most necessary time to seal the goal of returning to the World Cup event.

The classification came with an anticipation date, which allows the tricolor to face the closure of the qualifiers with less pressure.

The last commitment will be in Maturín, where Colombia will visit Venezuela in a match that, although the fate of the quota no longer changes, will serve to measure the level of the team and profile the adjustments for what will be the biggest challenge in the World Cup.

When does the Colombian team play with Venezuela?

The party between Colombia and Venezuela will be played on Tuesday at 6:30 pm in Maturín. The duel can be seen in Colombian territory through the signal of Gol Caracol and Caracol Channelin addition to the transmission by free streaming app haswhich will have the live game available for any device.

Although Colombia already has its classification and only the final position is played in the table, Venezuela faces a historical challenge: Search for repechage that would give him the possibility to dispute his first World Cup.

Vinotinto depends on itself and comes with the illusion of achieving an achievement that has never been so close.

Venezuela is played in the qualifiers

Venezuela's team had never been so close to a World Cup Like now. The Vinotinto is in the repechage zone and the entire country dreams of a historical classification that would break decades of frustrations.

The repechage system offers that door of hope. In total there are six teams that dispute this repet. The attractive is that two quotas are put into play, but not through a traditional hexagonal, but through a particular format in which the FIFA ranking is decisive.

The two best positioned teams go directly to a unique key, while the other four must face in a kind of previous “semifinal”. Everything will be played as a single match, in one of the headquarters of the next World Cup, in a mini lightning tournament that will be held in March of the next year.

The Venezuelan dream, however, could vanished in the last sigh. Bolivia, who is just one point, receives Brazil in the dreaded height of El Altowhere he intends to hit and sneak into the repechage. The equation is clear: if Venezuela wins, ensures its place without depending on anyone; While Bolivia needs to beat Brazil and pray so that the Vinotinto does not add three. Both countries make accounts, the expectation grows and the last date promises to be a dramatic pulse for the last quota to the repechage. Colombia will be a judge.

This is the table of the qualifiers at an end date

At a date for the end, the first six places in the table have already secured their direct classification to the World Cup: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Ecuador, Colombia and Paraguay.

They all reach the last date without pressure, as their quota is guaranteed. The fight, then, focuses only on the lower part of the table, where Venezuela and Bolivia keep alive the illusion of keeping the quota to intercontinental repechage.

In that seventh place, Venezuela starts with advantage thanks to its 18 points, while Bolivia, with 17, hopes to give the final blow. The definition will be dramatic: Venezuelans play their classification at home against Colombia, while Bolivians receive Brazil at El Alto. Only one can keep the repechage squarewhich means continuing to dream of getting to the World Cup.