The 2026 World Cup remaining will likely be held in New Jersey on the dwelling of the Nationwide Soccer League’s New York Giants and New York Jets, world soccer’s governing physique FIFA introduced on Sunday, together with your entire schedule for the worldwide soccer showcase.
The 48-team World Cup, which can conclude on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, is being co-hosted by america, Canada and Mexico.
Canada will host 13 video games in complete, together with 10 within the group stage break up evenly between Toronto and Vancouver. Mexico may even get 13 video games, together with 10 in the course of the group stage in Mexico Metropolis, Guadalajara and Monterrey. The remainder of event will likely be held in 11 cities throughout america.
Toronto, Mexico Metropolis, and Los Angeles will host the opening matches of their respective nationwide groups.
The open-air stadium for the ultimate, which opened in 2010 and has a capability of 82,500, hosted the Copa America Centenario remaining in 2016 when Chile denied Lionel Messi’s Argentina for a second time in a penalty shootout.
FIFA didn’t announce kickoff instances for the video games.
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Mexico Metropolis’s Estadio Azteca will host the opening match of event on June 11 when Mexico will change into the primary nation to stage the World Cup for a 3rd time. The opening day may even function a match in Guadalajara.
Mexico head coach Jaime Lozano, mentioned in translated feedback that his squad may have strain taking part in in entrance of dwelling followers however that also they are completely satisfied to function within the opening recreation and referred to as it a special occasion in his life and of the nationwide staff.
Mexico hosted the World Cup in 1970 and 1986, with the finals of each editions held at Estadio Azteca the place Pele’s Brazil crushed Italy 4-1 and Diego Maradona’s Argentina beat West Germany 3-2.
Maradona additionally scored the well-known “Hand of God” purpose and the “Aim of the Century” on the identical venue in a 2-1 victory over England within the 1986 quarter-finals.
The primary match in Canada, which has by no means hosted a World Cup recreation, will likely be June 12 in Toronto on the dwelling of town’s Main League Soccer staff whereas the opening recreation in america will likely be in Los Angeles on the dwelling of the NFL’s Rams.
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Every of the event hosts will spend the group stage in their very own international locations, with america sticking to the West Coast and taking part in twice in Los Angeles and as soon as in Seattle.
“We’re actually relying on the general public getting behind us,” mentioned U.S. males’s nationwide staff head coach Gregg Berhalter.
“I’m excited for the general public to get to know a few of our gamers and actually get a private reference to them as a result of it’s a fantastic group of fellows.”
Canada will play one group stage recreation in Toronto adopted by two in Vancouver whereas Mexico will play twice at Estadio Azteca and as soon as in Guadalajara.
Canada are winless in six matches throughout their two World Cup appearances and solely scored their first purpose in 2022 however interim head coach Mauro Biello admitted expectations will likely be a lot increased taking part in at dwelling.
“I take into consideration that recreation in Qatar once we scored our first purpose, and I’m positive once we get that first win it will likely be a fantastic second for this nation,” mentioned Biello.
“And that’s the target, win the primary one after which transfer on to the following spherical.”
The event will shift totally to america beginning with the quarter-final spherical, which will likely be held in Los Angeles, Kansas Metropolis, Miami and Boston.
Dallas and Atlanta will host the 2 semi-finals, Miami would be the website of the third-place playoff whereas Philadelphia will host a Spherical of 16 match on July 4 to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
The 2026 World Cup will function 104 matches as a substitute of the normal 64 video games, together with an extra knockout spherical because of the beforehand introduced choice to broaden to 48 groups from 32.
Given each the gap and totally different climates throughout the 16 host cities, FIFA opted to divide the venues getting used into three areas — east, central and west — with groups working out of a base camp in the identical area as their video games.