The 2026 World Cup closing shall be performed at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, beating out Texas and California for soccer’s showcase sport. FIFA awarded the July 19 championship to the $1.6 billion venue, which opened in 2010, the culminating match of an expanded 48-nation, 104-game match that shall be unfold throughout three nations for the primary time.
Located about 10 miles from Manhattan, MetLife was promoted by each New York and New Jersey, the place the stadium was constructed within the Meadowlands marshes. The land of Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi and Frank Sinatra would be the focus of the globe on that Sunday, when both Lionel Messi’s Argentina will attempt to win its second straight title or a successor will emerge.
“It will be a celebration of our diversity and our values,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy mentioned in a phone interview. “The bigger picture is what leads up to it and what we leave behind for the decades to come.”
FIFA made the announcement Sunday at a Miami tv studio, allocating the opener of the 39-day match to Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca on June 11 and the finale to the house of the NFL’s New York Jets and Giants.
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Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones had lobbied for the ultimate 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 mentioned. “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 being performed within the United States. Semifinals are on July 14 at AT&T 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 shall be at Hard Rock on July 18.
