Croatia v Czechia in Osijek, 15 November 2026: tickets

At 20:45 on Sunday 15 November 2026, Croatia host Czechia at Opus Arena in Osijek. The 13,005-seat stadium in the Retfala district stages the last group match of League A, Group 3 of the UEFA Nations League, the Croatian Football Federation (HNS) confirmed on 14 July 2026. Three days earlier, on Thursday 12 November, Croatia play England at Wembley. As of 21 October 2026, the ticket sale for Osijek has not been announced.

• Match: Croatia v Czechia, UEFA Nations League, League A, Group 3, sixth and last matchday.
• Date and kick-off: Sunday 15 November 2026, 20:45 local time.
• Venue: Opus Arena, Retfala, Osijek, 13,005 seats, home of NK Osijek.
• Tickets: sale not yet announced. HNS opens sales about 20 days before a match as a rule, online through its ticket portal.
• Three days before: England v Croatia, Thursday 12 November 2026, Wembley, 19:45 London time, 20:45 in Croatia.
• TV: Nova TV showed the group opener in Prague live, Index.hr reported. A broadcaster for 15 November has not yet been named.

A draw in Osijek keeps third place

Croatia opened the group with a 2-1 win in Prague on 26 September. Defeats followed: 4-1 in Seville, 7-0 against England in Rijeka and 2-1 against Spain at Poljud. After four matches Croatia have three points and a goal difference of minus ten, Index.hr reports. Czechia stand at minus eight. One point against Czechia is enough for third place in the group, the portal writes.

The top two of each group reach the quarter-finals from 25 to 30 March 2027. Third place plays a relegation play-off against a League B runner-up, and fourth place drops to League B, HNS says. The final Nations League ranking also sets the pots for the Euro 2028 qualifying draw in Belfast on 6 December. To stay in pot one, Croatia must finish in the top three of their League A group, Index.hr writes. Slaven Bilić coaches the team. HNS appointed him in July 2026 as successor to Zlatko Dalić, Novi list reported.

Tickets for Croatia v Czechia: the sale and the HNS app

As of 21 October 2026, HNS has announced no sale date and no prices for Osijek. Its ticket page says sales for a match open about 20 days before kick-off as a rule. Tickets are sold online through the HNS ticket portal at hns.ulaznice.hr. For the last home match with spectators, Croatia v Spain at Poljud on 6 October 2026, HNS published these rules on 9 September:

• Online sales opened on Friday 18 September at 13:00, at selected Petrol stations at 15:00.
• Members of the HNS loyalty programme had a 24-hour priority window before that, with the number of tickets set by their points.
• Only Croatian citizens could buy, wherever they live. Each buyer could get up to four tickets and enter the details of the other fans, who did not all need to be Croatian citizens.
• Tickets lived only in the HNS mobile app. Print-at-home tickets are no longer offered.
• Presale prices ran from 30 euros in the north and south stands to 65 euros in the central west and east stands, with 5 euros more on match day.
• Stewards checked that the ID matched the ticket. Tickets from the black market were cancelled.

Whether HNS repeats these rules for Osijek stays open until it publishes the sale. HNS warns about fake websites that copy its ticket shop and asks fans to buy only through official channels. Demand in Osijek is high. When Croatia played Czechia at Opus Arena on 9 June 2025 in World Cup qualifying, the online tickets sold out in seven minutes, tportal reported. The same afternoon, from 14:00, more tickets went on sale at three Petrol stations in Osijek: Strossmayerova sjever, Divaltova and Mandićeva.

Opus Arena: 13,005 seats in Retfala

Opus Arena opened on 1 July 2023 as the new home of NK Osijek. It holds 13,005 seats and can be expanded to 14,750, which makes it the fourth-largest stadium in Croatia. Locals also call it the stadium on Pampas. It stands in the Retfala district and has 750 public and 150 VIP parking spaces. Croatia's men first played there on 12 October 2023, a 1-0 defeat by Turkey in Euro 2024 qualifying. In May 2026 the stadium hosted the Croatian Cup final between Dinamo and Rijeka, with about 13,000 spectators expected, HNS said.

Getting to Osijek by plane, train, bus and car

Osijek Airport lies at Klisa, beside the D2 road toward Vukovar. Trade Air flies there from Zagreb. When the domestic routes restarted on 20 July 2026, the Zagreb flights ran on Mondays, Fridays and Sundays with morning and evening rotations, Glas Slavonije reported. One-way fares started at 44.61 euros. The current timetable is on osijek-airport.hr. The Osijek tourist board lists taxis for the trip from the airport into town.

Direct trains from Zagreb Glavni kolodvor take between 5 h 37 min and 6 h. On a weekday in October 2026 they left Zagreb at 6:39, 7:27, 13:20 and 16:30, according to the timetable on bus.hr. The fastest connection, with one change, takes 4 h 58 min. Sunday times are on hzpp.hr. Tram line 2 serves the railway station and the bus station in Osijek. Arriva runs the bus station, with lines to the larger Croatian cities. FlixBus links Osijek with Brno and Prague, the tourist board lists.

By car, Osijek is about two and a half hours from Zagreb on the A3 and A5 motorways, the tourist board says. For the cup final in May 2026, HNS pointed drivers to the Čepin and Osijek exits of the A5. Match day is also the first day of Croatia's winter equipment rule on designated winter road sections, see winter tyres in Croatia from 15 November.

Match day at Opus Arena

For the June 2025 match against Czechia, gates opened at 18:45 for the 20:45 kick-off, police said. They closed Antuna Kanižlića street from the roundabout to the stadium car park to vehicles without a permit and banned parking in the stadium zone. Fans were asked to arrive on foot or by city public transport. For the cup final in May 2026, HNS asked spectators to park outside the stadium zone and to come by public transport, taxi or on foot, about two hours before kick-off for the security checks. Tram line 1 links the main square, Trg Ante Starčevića, with Retfala, the tourist board says.

• The ticket in the HNS app on your phone and a photo ID or passport. The name on the ID must match the ticket.
• Small bags only. At the cup final HNS banned umbrellas, large bags and backpacks, bottles and lighters.
• Flags and banners up to 2 by 1 metres.
• Alcohol and pyrotechnics are banned under Croatian law, and drones may not fly over the stadium on match day.

England v Croatia at Wembley, 12 November

Croatia's squad gathers on 9 November and plays England at Wembley on Thursday 12 November 2026 at 19:45 London time, 20:45 in Croatia. The English Football Association (FA) confirmed the details on 13 August. England won the first meeting in the group 7-0 in Rijeka on 3 October, a match played without spectators under a UEFA sanction. HNS says the sanction covered only that match and the away match in Prague. The teams also met at the 2026 World Cup in Dallas, where England won 4-2, according to the FA.

The FA sold tickets in three windows: England Supporters Travel Club members from 8 September, England+ members from 14 September and general sale from 12:00 on Friday 18 September. Prices are 35, 45, 65 and 80 pounds. In the Family Enclosure adults pay 25 pounds and children under 16 pay 12.50. A limited number of Level Two seats cost 95 and 120 pounds, and over-65s, students and under-16s outside the Family Enclosure pay 10 pounds less.

A section for Croatia fans at Wembley is not officially confirmed. As of 21 October 2026, neither the FA nor HNS has published an away allocation, and the HNS ticket page lists the London match without sale details. Wembley holds 90,000. The nearest stations are Wembley Park on the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines, Wembley Stadium on National Rail and Wembley Central on the London Overground.

Around the match weekend in Slavonia

Vukovar lies east of Osijek on the same D2 road as the airport. On 18 November 2026, three days after the match, Croatia marks 35 years since the fall of Vukovar with the Kolona sjećanja, the walk of remembrance: Vukovar Remembrance Day, 18 November 2026. Temperatures, rain and daylight for the month are in Croatia weather in November.