It has become impossible for me to update the original calendar, Google keeps timing out when I try to save loosing any changes I have made.
Instead I have created an ICAL file which you can import in to Google yourself, copy this link https://blog.artesea.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/World-Cup.ics and paste it in to the “Add a friend’s calendar” box on the bottom left of Google Calendar.
I will be saving this calendar twice a day after each of the matches. Hopefully you should get the changes quickly on your new Google Calendar.
I also suggest you remove the old calendar as it seems to have some impact on the speed in which the other calendars load and sync.
(You can now ignore above, everything seems to be fine. Looks like Google crashed out when iOS4 came out and everyone re-synced their phones at the same time).
As there isn’t one is the preset list from Google for next years World Cup in South Africa, I’ve created this myself. If you wish to add it to your own Google Calendar click on the + icon at the bottom right.
I will be updating the knockout stages as soon as we know which teams will be in each fixture.
SORRY IF THE CALENDAR IS TAKING IT’S TIME TO LOAD, THIS SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM WITH GOOGLE SHARING IT WITH SO MANY PEOPLE
Feedback in the comments suggest that if your Google Calendar is set to your timezone the fixtures will appear with the correct time for you. eg BST, PST, EST, CET, JST…
Alternate formats: XML | ICAL | HTML
To get the football icons (or others) next to your events on your own calendar, you need to enable Labs in Google Calendar, and there is an option to add “Event Flair”. When you next add or edit an event you should see a choice of icons on the right hand side.
If you wish to get the calendar on your mobile, you might consider using Goosync, you’ll need a premium account to sync calendars other than your primary one. They are available from £19.99.
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Great! – thank you
many thanks
have downloaded today. be aware, though, that some game times were changed by FIFA at the weekend, eg group D, to accommodate european tv audiences
cheers
Carlo
Carlo, thanks for the tip off with the changes in times. All have now been modified (until Fifa do it again).
Hi, thanks for this. Am I right in thinking all the times are GMT?
Alex, the times are UK based which will be UTC+1 with our Summer Time.
Marvellous, thanks again.
The Telegraph did one for the qualifiers but haven’t kept it updated for the finals.
Apparently they are subject to copyright. Bizarre. Cheers, and congrats for being top return on a Google search.
Many thanks, i’ll be sticking a link for this on a few places where i know people will be interested.
Thanks alot…great service you offered to footy fans everywhere.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Fantastic, just what I was looking for, thank you, thank you, thank you.
This is great idea, thanks!
For some reason because I have a Google Apps AND a standard Google calendar accounts I can’t add this as Google doesn’t know which gcal to add it to.
Would you be able to post the xml or ical address to share the calendar?
@James you should be able to paste [email protected] into the “Add a friend’s calendar” box (under “Other calendars”).
However here are the ical and xml links
Scratch that – I managed to add ti to my standard cal, and then copy the public xml link in order to add it to my Apps cal.
Here’s the link for anyone else that needs to do it this way:
http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/rp57smf89rsb1hgo09abvq1mhg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
Ah, just saw your comment after posting that – thanks Ryan 🙂
Merci pour cet agenda bien pratique.
Thanks Dude! Appreciate the post
Many thanks! 🙂
Thanks for this! You have saved me an effort knocking this together.
I believe might be off by 1 with the timezones. The UK will, indeed, be at UTC+1 during the summer as per your previous comment. South Africa will remain at UTC+2, because they do not have a daylight savings time shift.
@William, the calendar has been primarily designed for me with the match times in based on my timezone (London).
I’ve yet to find a way for Google to allow you to shift the times on a shared calendar based on a timezone of your choice. One option you do have though is to download the ical file and do a find and replace on the times. As there are only 3 different kickoff times it shouldn’t be too hard to create the variations.
Assuming you entered the data by hand from your current timezone (UTC), I think you subtracted 2 as you typed. Correct me if I am wrong. Keep in mind I’m seeing them as my local timezone, so am extrapolating your data-entry method.
Kickoff of first game is 1600 UTC+2.
I think you probably typed in 1400, because the current time difference is 2 hours. Google Calendar is not going to magically change this to 1500 at the moment the UK goes on daylight time.
As a test, if you configure Google Calendar to show you the additional timezone of Johannesburg (in your default account settings), it will claim the game is going to start at 1500 UTC+2. It appears the app is smart and already knows the difference will be one hour on that date.
Hmm, that’s odd, I entered all the times with kickoffs as 12:30, 15:00 and 19:30 and they all looked ok, but suddenly everything has shifted backwards an hour.
Time to move all of them forward.
Thank you very much!
many thanks, i sync this beautiful calendar with my n95 with googasync. works perfect, greetengs
i have a question Ryan, after elimination, it will be automatically updated to google calendar? i mean the hexagonal matches.
Fixtures will need to be manually updated once we know who wins each group. I plan to do this as soon as I find out, and can even modify the fixtures on my mobile. But there could be the odd delay if I can’t get online.
Thanks! Good work. Hope you can update it timely 🙂
Excellent! Thank you!
Cheers fella… top stuff.
Hey dude, this is some serious meticulous work.
Well done and thankyou!
– Shaun
Thank you very much for your work!
Nice. Thanks for your work
That’s great – many thanks!
Amazing!, added. thanks
Good work fella. Thanks very much. Also pleased to read your views on mobile phone masts. A much needed alternative perspective.
Thank you, thats brilliant
Thanks! I’m based in South Africa and when I added the calendar the times were updated to my time zone so they’re the local time (which at that time of the year is +1 hour)
Top man Ryan – really useful – roll-on 11 June.
This is great work.. thanks a lot. Saved me a lot of time and trouble “touchscreening” all the matches on my iPhone!! 🙂
Perfect! Thanks a lot.
You are a star – thanks for putting in the time to do this
Google now has a present calendar for this, which identifies your local time zone too. Doesn;t appear to have the stage 2 games yet though.
The Google calendar for the World Cup is separated into the different nations, I couldn’t find one that contains all matches.
But this one does, so thank you 🙂
Superb! Much better than the other Google calendar! You fking rock
awesome! your stats must be rising fast for this page 🙂 . I can’t quite believe the Powers That Be weren’t on top of this
Good Job! Just what I was looking for!
Thanks so much for this. Added the calendar and all entries are in the Malaysian time zone. Great work.
great job. thanking you!
thanks – was surprised that google didn’t have this already.
many thanx
this is a great help
You saved us time.. thank you! =]
Perfect!, thank you very much.
Excellent job, thanks a lot!
great, thanks a lot! only one question: does the time adjust to my zone (GMT -5) or is it the south africa time and i have to do the math?
Sebastian, feedback shows that as long as your Google Calendar settings are set to your Timezone then the fixtures will be correct for you.
Thanks a lot for this – very handy
Fantastic – very usefull! Thanks very much.
Thanks for the calendar! I don’t know why Google didn’t just create a single one for the whole World Cup like this. Who wants to add 32 calendars for one event? LOL
Thanks a ton man. Good work!!
Thanks very much – just what I was looking for!
This is fantastic… Exactly what I needed.
One question – will you update the calendar after the group competition – so that Teams take place of 1A vs 2B?
@Rafał, I will be updating the knockout stages as soon as I know who will be playing in each match. In some cases this will be seconds after a game has finished (I can edit the calendar on my mobile), others may be a few hours, especially if I’ve been drinking in the pub as it’s easy to forget to do the updating 😉
Google has added team-specific FIFA World-Cup 2010 calendars complete with goals scored. Under “Other Calendars” click Add, then Browse Interesting Calendars, then select the Sports tab, scroll down to click on FIFA World Cup, then Subscribe to the teams you want.
Brilliant stuff, thanks Ryan.
Hi, when I try and add I get ‘Do not have permission to add World cup 2010s calendar’. Am I being daft?
@UnnDunn: Google stuff is not good. There ma many teams I dont want so many calendars – just one will do, as this one. Ryan – thanks for the answer. Such updates are fine. Thanks a lot.
You rock! The “by team calendars” that google has didn’t sit well with me. Awesome! May I suggest adding the scores as the games are completed?
Thanks! on my G1 now
muchas muchas gracias! thanks mate.
Hey, thanks so much for taking the time. Now I’ll try not to forget any matches while in Norway!
Thanks for the Calendar dude! Really helpful!
Huge time saver for me. Thank you very much for this!
Thank you very much.
now time to see if i’m working on any of the england matches.
GRacias! Thankyou from Mexico and guess whos gonna win in Wemblay may 27 lol
Extremely handy! Thank you!
GRACIAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TE PASASTE!!!!!!!!
SALUDOS DESDE CHILE!!!!!!!
Awesome – thanks for this.
Great, n1
Can’t wait,
COME ON ENGLAND!!!!!
Well done you – a great idea, much appreciated.
Hi, will you update scores after end of match ?
This is great – thank you very much!
Can i update the scores after the match?
Brilliant calendar.
I’ve a quick question that maybe someone will answer for me. I sync Google Calendars with my iPhone. Unfortunately only those calendars listed under “My Calendars” sync with the handset and not those listed under “Other Calendars” (which is where this one appears. Is there anyway of making those “Other Calendars” sync up?
OK, scratch that. I found out.
For anyone wlse who’s wondering, the answer’s here:
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=139206&topic=14252
Excellent.
Thank you.
Brilliant – thanks for putting this together…don’t know why Google just don’t consolodate their separate calendars for subscription to save you the effort but it’s much appreciated!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
It won’t be possible for you to edit the calendar (without exporting to your computer and then reimporting). Because of the requests I’ll be placing the scores in to the event titles eg South Africa 1 – 1 Mexico once the games have ended.
Thanks so much!!!!
Awesome stuff, what else do I really need?
Just what I was looking for and top result when googling for it – nice work!
Just one thing, perhaps adding the liitle football icon ‘flair’ would put the cherry on top – bit rude, I know :o)
Great! Thanks for this calendar!
Thanks for the superb calendar, you are one cool dude!
Great stuff. Thanks
Ah for the good old days when you could search for things like this *within* Google Calendars. I still don’t understand why they took that function away.
Thanks, though!
Smart going to download it now. Thanks for sharing. Come on England.
many thanks. Just what I was looking for
Thank you so much this is great, I know this sounds greedy but is there a way to get all the Fifa international friendlies auto populated into google calendar instead of doing it manually?
Perfect.
Here’s to a great summer of football
Many thanks
Awesome, Thanks!!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! I love it..
Thanks for creating and keeping a WC calendar updated! It’s great for the rest of us! 🙂
Thanks for this, great stuff! Now for England to win it!
great job man 🙂 thanks a lot
That is great! Thank you very much!
Fantastic, just what I wanted. Great work.
Fantastic! Thanks 🙂
how come google separated their calendar in the different countries to begin with? your calendar is perfect and hereby added!
a quick search on google to find a time saving device for adding fixtures found me you! Fantastic – thank you so much!
Nicely done and very much appreciated!
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!! Had messed up my calendar with all the teams… this is brilliant
Much appreciated! Thanks.
Thanks a lot, I hope you’ll manage to keep this up to date once the World Cup gets going! I can’t believe Google doesn’t have this one as a default though :(!
I hope you don’t mind that I linked to you on my blog: http://b.wardje.eu/post/637615828
Wow! Thanks so much! This is exactly what I was looking for in preparation for planning around SA2010!
Y are a wonderfull wonderull man =D
thank you very much…much appreciated 🙂
Thanks! where is the download?
Thanx for the calendar! Exactly what I needed 🙂
Fantastic – thanks!
hank you very much…much appreciated 🙂
A must. Good work.
Thank you very much mate.
Perfect! Was looking for this one! Great!!! Thank you so much!
Thanks for this calendar. Works just like it is supposed to. Google has calendar for each individual country which is not very convenient.
Thanks dude! for the effort
Thank you, taht was exactly what I was looking for.
Greetigs from Berlin
Awesome! Thanks mate. I hope these Google show these per my proper local time.
Cheers!
Ace job man! Many thanks, I was really p*ssed off with the country-by-country calendars offered by Google!
this is bollocks
Thanks thanks thanks!
thanks. stupid Google has them separated by country. I want to see ALL the matches.
thanks again
Dude, you rule. Thanks so much for doing this!
PERFECT!
I love how it automatically converted to my time zone, too!
Many many thanks!
perfect. really appreciate it.
Just imported into my Google Calendar and I couldn’t be happier that it adjusted to my time zone. Thank you so much for your hard work.
This is great!
Would you be able to update it with the new flair google has (small soccer ball)? This will help my already crowded calendar.
If you can’t, it’s cool. This is definitely tip top. thx
You are a legend!! Thank you v much for developing and sharing this. 😉
Ryan,
Outstanding work, so good that I’ve actually just made a donation via PayPal!!
José
PS: Vamos Argentina!!!
Cheers mate, saved me a bit of work!
You are a genius mate. Thanks a lot.
José, thanks for the donation.
A.cerrillo I would love to add a graphic, however can’t see anything in the settings which would let me add one.
Absolutely wunderbar!
lovely. Thanks much.
Great job, thanks!
my friend, you did us all a great favor!!
thanks!
thanks!
A big “Merci” from a french fan (crossing his finger :S).
Bye !
Hi Ryan,
As I use Google Apps, I cannot add the calendar with the plus sign… and I would really love to add this!
Could you give me the xml address?
You can find it in the settings of this calendar…
Hope you respond because I really appreciate this effort you made in creating the calendar!
Theo.
Ryan, don’t bother – I figured it out through your ‘add calendar of a friend’ link…
Thanks a lot!!
Huge thanks, just what I was looking for – appreciate your efforts!
Fabulous! Thank you so much! Already excited waiting for the whole month of fab footy!
Awesome! I downloaded it and it automatically converted into my local time zone. Let the games begin!
Good Job, Thanks
Nice work: download the basic.ics and imported it into google apps account – times converted nicely to Eastern US.
Thanks for the time you spent doing this.
The event flair is a Google Labs feature, so you’ve got to enable it under Settings > Calendar Settings > Labs > Event flair. After that, you should be able to see a widget in your main calendar view.
You just saved me hours of typing. You are the man. A donation is paypaling over – buy yourself a pint.
Cheers man, much appreciated!
great work – thanks v much
FINDING THIS CALENDER MADE MY DAY. THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROSITY.
Massimo
@RK many thanks for the labs tip, have now added the icon to all the matches.
@Macca thanks for the pint.
Hi,
Thanks for putting this up. Is there a way I can set the time of the game to my local time?
Thank you! Good job !
thank you very much for setting up this calender ^^
TNX !! That’s what I searched for !!
How did you insert those cool football icons in the calendar ?
I’ve never seen something like this before and found nothing in the google help center.
@Do1eh, in the Calendar Labs you should find an option for “Event Flair”
Bloody amazing – you have just saved me so much time.
Much appreicated.
You are a scholar and a gentleman.
Tanks man! Far better than a Google solution, witch is separate calendar for every nation. 🙂
Thank you kindly.
Thanks for posting the calendar!
Thank you very much man!!!
Cheers pal, top handiwork.
Superb!!! 🙂
Thank you soooo much!!
Thanx a lot!
I really wanted this. d(>ω<*)
Thanks a lot man!
Super duper convenient 🙂
To get this calendar on your n900, follow these steps…
1. download the ICAL version of this calendar.
2. import the ICAL file into you google calendar.
3. follow steps here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=5f92340e8dea5ed7&hl=en
4. Done!
Thank you soooo very much for doing this, lifesaver!!
Thank you! This is awesome.
Excelente a mi me funciono y con los horarios de mi zona horaria. Gracias!!!!
Thank you for your hard work on this, it’s excellent.
Enjoy the world cup 😉
Thanks a lot, I was looking for this.
Cheers mate! First link on google is a Brit – good to see we are good at something 🙂
Thanks alot.. This is a huge help..
Thanks so much for the calendar! Great job!
Thanks for this great calendar!
Nice – thanks for sharing your work!
If you could update the calendar after each match, i would be grateful!
Fantastic! Thank you very very much!
Thank you so much! This is so much easier than … any of the other options. Appreciate all the hard work you’ve done here.
thank you so much! 🙂
I just noticed you are updating scores for these games as they happen. you are officially my hero
For those who have Nokia phones don’t pay any third party company to sync. Just download mail for exchange from Ovi store and follow instructions on http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=147951
Thank you poster & adil
Thank you so much!
I will spread your wonderful work on twitter!
Great!!! saved me a lot of time!
enjoy the games!
Great, thanks.
I love integration of media and tools.
The BBC have released a calendar now.
http://goo.gl/7AEr
My friend you are doing great job by updating the result after each game. Thank you so much for your effort.
good job! Many Thanks!
thank you! great!
Thanks a lot!! Just what I needed, and it works! Amazing job, and thank you for updating the events as time goes by 🙂
Thanks a bunch! Google didn’t have a complete listing of the World Cup Games. You had to subscribe to each country individually so you had many duplicates.
Thanks a lot, Ryan!
Pesky google option duplicates games as you have to subscribe to each nation individually. Hope you get time to update team names as the competition progresses. COME ON ENGLAND. Best wishes.
Thanks! Good work.
Awesome!!! Thank 🙂
Thanks a lot. Google’s own calendar is broken down into teams. And you have to add each team!! Not Cool!!
Times adjusted to my timezone as well. Great thanks!
thanks man i really didnt want to put dem in my self…..
Vielen lieben Dank!
Thanks! I am totally loving the games!
nice job! thanks!
Hey, this is great! Good job.
thank you !
works on iCal like a bomb !
===============<() Thanks!!!
thanks for the updates – however the Slovakia – New Zealand result was 1-1 🙂
@Gareth the score on my screen shows 1-1, however I’m finding that the calendar is taking an age to sync with my mobile (the New Zealand game is still showing no score). I just think that Google can’t cope with the large number of people subscribed to it.
somewhere we can complain to google about the calendar lagging?
The Calendar disappeared…. 🙁
Its taking ages to load or not at all on the google calendar website. also it started off fine but now it’s not syncing properly on my android phone
Thanks Ryan, this is awesome, I have shared it with all my mates. One (perhaps a little late) request: How about adding the teams’ FIFA rankings?
http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/lastranking/gender=m/fullranking.html
From a sad South African…
That’s a shame. I now can’t see this on google calendar – message reads “Calendar ‘World Cup 2010’ did not load” etc and has been that way for 2 days. Still have fixtures on android (which is handy) but the most recent result is also 2 days old – NZ v Slovakia 0-0, which was the half time score! Anyone else stuck at the same spot I wonder?
My own phone is no longer displaying the games (I unsynced and resynced trying to get it to be up to date). My mates is perfectly fine and all scores correct.
The calendar does appear for a short while on the Google Website, just try hitting Ctrl+F5 and it should appear (but expect it to go again), or when it has gone on the left hand side click on “World Cup 2010”.
Thanks a lot, mate ! Awsome ! I should have searched on google a bit earlier 😉
I am having the same problem as SJerz. Any help cuz I did what you suggested however it shows for a split second and then disappears again.
Yeah, i’m having the same problem with the calendar not showing on my HTC Hero (UK)..i’ve unsubscribed and subscribed, re-syncs but no joy….shame as this feature was brilliant.
Any update on this would be great…
It looks like Google haven’t built their calendars to be shared with tens of thousands of people (if not millions).
An alternative method would be to right click on this ICAL link, save the file to your computer. Then create a new google calendar for yourself and import that ICAL file.
You won’t get any of the updates, so you will have to do that yourself but at least it won’t keep vanishing.
At the moment it is taking me over 2 hours to get any updates saved to the calendar, so if you do manage to see the fixtures sorry if they are a bit out of date.
I have the same issue. It looks like its an overload. Another way would be to use something like iCal’s feature to publish a local calendar hourly to a server and then we can link to that ICS file. Your calendar was such a great feature, now we can’t even see your efforts of adding scores anymore. How about re-publishing your file to the ICAL link you provided above? iCal on the Mac will be able to sync to that link instead of the Google one. Thanks for trying to make technology work for us…
I had to unsubscribe. This calendar started to slow down all calendar. I use iCal that I will update by myself. Pity…
I’ve updated the top of this blog post with the following:
It has become impossible for me to update the original calendar, Google keeps timing out when I try to save loosing any changes I have made.
Instead I have created an ICAL file which you can import in to Google yourself, copy this link https://blog.artesea.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/World-Cup.ics and paste it in to the “Add a friend’s calendar” box on the bottom left of Google Calendar.
I will be saving this calendar twice a day after each of the matches. Hopefully you should get the changes quickly on your new Google Calendar.
I also suggest you remove the old calendar as it seems to have some impact on the speed in which the other calendars load and sync.
Thanks for this Ryan, much appreciated…
This is a pity, that Google did not stand this. This was a great job of you Ryan. I will keep using your iCal file.
Seems like Google have fixed the calendar from crashing. I believe the problem started when iOS4 came out and everyone re-synced their phones at the same time making Google Sync (including Calendars) unstable.
Don’t worry if you have switched to the other format, both the Google Calendar and the iCal file will be continued to be updated for the last 4 matches.
Thanks again! It’s great that you created, shared and updated this calendar.
Thanks a lot for this calendar Ryan. I loved that you were updating it as the action happened and it synced up to my phone (even though we ran into some trouble because of iOS4, that’s OK :D)!! Are you gonna do something like this for Champions League? Please tell me yes!
Thanks so much for this Ryan – very useful, been trying to work out how to do it myself for ages.