The 2026 World Cup final will be played at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, U.S., on July 19.
FIFA made the announcement Sunday at a Miami tv studio, allocating the opener of the 39-day match unfold throughout three North American nations to Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca on June 11 and the finale to the house of the NFL’s New York Jets and Giants.
“It will be a celebration of our diversity and our values,” New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy stated in a phone interview. “The bigger picture is what leads up to it and what we leave behind for the decades to come.”
Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones had lobbied for the final to be at his AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
“The competition was dealing with the perception of the coastal, of a New York, or a Los Angeles,” he stated. “If this were totally being played to just America and the United States, that wouldn’t have been such a formidable thing to overcome. But internationally, that’s formidable to overcome.”
All video games from the quarterfinals on are in the United States. Semifinals are on July 14 at AT&T Stadium and the next day at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
Quarterfinals are at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on July 9, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, the next day, and at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, and Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on July 11. The third-place sport will be at Hard Rock on July 18.
The U.S. workforce will prepare in suburban Atlanta forward of the match and open at SoFi on June 12. The Americans play seven days later at Seattle’s Lumen Field and end the group stage at SoFi on June 25.
Since reaching the semifinals of the primary World Cup in 1930, the U.S. has superior to the quarterfinals simply as soon as, in 2002.
Seventy-eight of 104 matches of the primary World Cup held in three nations will be played in the U.S., with 13 video games every in Mexico and Canada.
“It’s about making our nation proud,” American coach Gregg Berhalter stated. “One way to really grow the game and to change football in America forever is to perform well and do something that no U.S. team has ever done before.”
AT&T, which had hopes to current the final, will host a tournament-high 9 matches. There will be eight every at MetLife, SoFi and Mercedes Benz; seven apiece at Hard Rock, Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and NRG Stadium in Houston; and 6 apiece at Lumen, Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, and Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
FIFA officers didn’t publicly clarify their site-decision course of.
Philadelphia’s final match will be a round-of-16 assembly on July 4, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park hosts baseball’s All-Star Game, seemingly on July 14.
Santa Clara is the one U.S. web site that won’t host a sport after the brand new spherical of 32.
FIFA expanded the World Cup from 32 to 48 nations, elevated matches from 64 and introduced the 16 websites in 2022.
Murphy realized of the choice whereas at a watch occasion in a MetLife Stadium suite. He was not discouraged by a British tabloid report on Jan. 17 that the final would be at AT&T.
“We did everything we could to put our head downs, focus on the job at hand, kind of push out the noise, and that turned out to be a winning formula,” Murphy stated,
Mexico will play its second match at Estadio BBVA in Monterrey on June 18 and return to Azteca on June 24. Mexico City will host 5 matches, with 4 every in Monterrey and Guadalajara’s Estadio Akron.
Canada will play its opening first-round match in Toronto on June 12, then its following two video games in B.C. Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, on June 18 and 24. Each Canada venue will host 13 video games.
A nation will want to play eight matches to win the title, up from seven since 1982.
All 11 of the U.S. stadiums are dwelling to NFL groups. Hard Rock will host this 12 months’s Copa América final on July 14, whereas MetLife was the location of the 2016 Copa América final.
Both the 1970 and 1986 World Cup finals had been at Azteca.
When the U.S. hosted the 24-nation, 52-game match in 1994, the final was on the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, the opener at Chicago’s Soldier Field and the semifinals at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford and the Rose Bowl.
With the extra groups, the size of the match will develop from 29 days in the shortened 2022 schedule in Qatar and 32 days for the 2018 match in Russia.
Only one match will contain a workforce that has not had a minimum of three off days. FIFA divided the group stage into East, Central and West areas and supposed to make journey shorter for group winners.
The stadiums in Arlington, Atlanta and Houston have retractable roofs which might be anticipated to be closed due to summer season warmth, and Inglewood and Vancouver have mounted roofs.
Artificial turf will be changed by grass in Arlington, Atlanta, East Rutherford, Foxborough, Houston, Inglewood and Vancouver.
Several of the venues are anticipated to widen their surfaces to accommodate a 75-by-115 yard (68-by-105 meter) taking part in subject, together with AT&T and MetLife.
FIFA didn’t announce kickoff instances. The 1994 championship began at 12:30 p.m. PDT (3:30 p.m. EDT and 9:30 p.m. in Central Europe) however the begin has been moved up in current years as Asia’s tv market change into extra vital to FIFA. The 2022 final in Qatar began at 5 p.m. native time (10 a.m. EDT, 4 p.m. in Central Europe and 10 p.m. in Beijing).
