The ultimate of the 2026 World Cup is scheduled to be held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on July 19.
FIFA introduced this Sunday in a tv studio in Miami, that the opening match of the 39-day event will likely be held on the Azteca Stadium in Mexico Metropolis on June 11.
The semifinals will likely be performed on July 14 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and the next day at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
The quarterfinals will likely be performed at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts, on July 9, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, the subsequent day, and at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, and Exhausting Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on July 11. The third-place match will likely be held at Exhausting Rock on July 18.
The US crew will open SoFi Stadium on June 12, then play seven days later at Lumen Discipline in Seattle and end the group stage at SoFi on June 25.
AT&T Stadium, residence of the Dallas Cowboys who have been hoping to host the ultimate, has essentially the most video games wherever with 9.
FIFA officers haven’t publicly defined the decision-making course of for the situation.
FIFA expanded the World Cup event from 32 to 48 international locations and elevated the variety of matches from 64 to 104. America, Mexico and Canada will co-host the 2026 event, with all matches from the quarter-finals to be performed in the USA. Places in 2022
Canada will play its opening first-round match in Toronto on June 12, then its subsequent two video games in Vancouver, British Columbia, on June 18 and 24.
A rustic might want to play eight matches to win the title, in comparison with seven matches since 1982.
Different US websites are Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts; NRG Stadium in Houston; Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri; Lincoln Monetary Discipline in Philadelphia; Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
Matches in Mexico may even be held on the BBVA Stadium in Monterrey and the Akron Stadium in Guadalajara.
All 11 American stadiums are residence to NFL groups. Exhausting Rock Stadium will host this 12 months’s Copa America remaining on July 14, whereas MetLife was the positioning of the 2016 Copa America remaining.
The 1970 and 1986 World Cup finals have been held in Azteca.
When the USA hosted the 24-nation, 52-game event in 1994, the ultimate was performed on the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, and the opening sport was held at Soldier Discipline in Chicago.
With the extra groups, the size of the event will enhance from 29 days within the shortened 2022 schedule in Qatar, and 32 days within the 2018 event in Russia.
Just one match will function a crew that has not had not less than three days off. FIFA divided the group stage into Japanese, Central and Western areas and aimed to make journey shorter for the group winners.
Stadiums in Arlington, Atlanta and Houston have retractable roofs and are anticipated to be closed because of the summer season warmth, and Inglewood and Vancouver even have mounted roofs.
Synthetic turf will likely be changed with turf in Arlington, Atlanta, East Rutherford, Foxboro, Houston, Inglewood and Vancouver.
A number of venues are anticipated to increase their roofs to accommodate the 75 by 115 yard (68 by 105 m) court docket, together with AT&T and MetLife.
FIFA didn’t announce the beginning dates of the match. The 1994 event began at 12:30 PM PDT (3:30 PM EDT and 9:30 PM CET) however the begin has been postponed in recent times as the tv market in Asia has change into extra necessary to FIFA. The 2022 remaining in Qatar kicked off at 5pm native time (10am EST, 4pm CET and 10pm Beijing time).