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The 2026 World Cup remaining will likely be held on the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on July 11, world soccer’s governing physique FIFA has introduced.

The world’s hottest sporting occasion will likely be held in 16 cities throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico, based on the event schedule unveiled by FIFA on Sunday.

The 48-team World Cup will open on June 11 in Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca and conclude on July 19 on the 82,500-capacity MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford in New Jersey.

FIFA officers didn’t clarify their site-decision course of.

Canada will host 13 video games in whole, together with 10 within the group stage, break up evenly between Toronto and Vancouver. Mexico can even get 13 video games, together with 10 throughout the group stage, in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey. The remainder of the event will likely be held in 11 cities throughout the US.

Toronto, Mexico City, 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 price $1.6bn, 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 occasions for the video games.

Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca will host the opening match of the event on June 11, when Mexico will change into the primary nation to stage the World Cup for a 3rd time. The opening day can even function a match in Guadalajara.

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 “goal of the century” on the similar venue in a 2-1 victory over England within the 1986 quarterfinal.

The first match in Canada, which has by no means hosted a World Cup sport, will likely be on June 12 in Toronto on the dwelling of town’s Major League Soccer staff, whereas the opening sport within the US will likely be in Los Angeles.

Each of the event hosts will spend the group stage in their very own nations, with the USA staff sticking to the West Coast and enjoying twice in Los Angeles and as soon as in Seattle.

Canada will play one group stage sport in Toronto, adopted by two in Vancouver, whereas Mexico will play twice at Estadio Azteca and as soon as in Guadalajara.

The event will shift fully to the US beginning with the quarterfinals, which will likely be held in Los Angeles, Kansas City, Miami and Boston.

Dallas and Atlanta will host the 2 semifinals on July 14 and 15, respectively, Miami would be the venue of the third-place playoff, whereas Philadelphia will host a round-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 a further knockout spherical as a result of beforehand introduced choice to broaden to 48 groups from 32.

A nation might want to play eight matches to win the title, up from seven since 1982.

Given 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.

The stadiums in Arlington, Atlanta and Houston have retractable roofs which can be anticipated to be closed due to summer time warmth, and Inglewood and Vancouver have mounted roofs.

Artificial turf will likely 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-metre) enjoying area.