MetLife Stadium in New Jersey will be the venue for the 2026 World Cup finals, which will be played across North America in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
The 82,500-capacity MetLife Stadium is located in New Jersey, eight miles from New York City, and is home to the NFL’s New York Jets and Giants. It hosted the Super Bowl in February 2014 and the Copa America Centenario final in 2016.
This tournament will be the first World Cup to be held in a 48-team format. The final will be held on July 19th after a 39-day tournament featuring 104 matches, the most in World Cup history. The first match will be held on June 11th at Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca, which has hosted the previous two opening matches in 1970 and 1986.
Canada’s first-ever Men’s World Cup match will be played on June 12 at BMO Field in Toronto, hosting Team Canada’s opening game. Vancouver’s 54,500-capacity BC Place will be the venue for Canada’s second and third group games. “It’s important to go coast to coast,” said Mauro Biello, Canada’s interim coach.
The United States will play its opening game on June 12 at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, the site of the opening ceremony of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and the site of the Super Bowl two years ago. The U.S. will play its final group game at SoFi and another opening game at Lumen Field in Seattle, keeping the co-hosts on the West Coast for the first three games.
“When you think of Los Angeles, you think of it as a symbolic city for soccer, and it has already hosted two World Cup finals, the men’s in 1994 and the women’s in 1999 and 2003…There’s a lot going on in Los Angeles. , SoFi Stadium is a great venue,” said U.S. manager Greg Berhalter. . “And if you think about Seattle, with its rich fan culture, the loud atmosphere in the stadiums, every stadium will have a great atmosphere.”
The third-place match will be held at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. The semifinals will be held in Dallas and Atlanta, and the quarterfinals will be held in Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, and Boston. The Round of 16 will be held in Vancouver, Seattle, Mexico City, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Philadelphia and New York/New Jersey. Each host city except Guadalajara and Philadelphia will play a Round of 32 match.
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Dallas, which has been tipped by some as a possible host for the finals, is scheduled to host nine games in the tournament, more than any other city.
