The 2026 Planet Cup closing will be played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on July 19.
FIFA made the announcement Sunday at a Miami tv studio, allocating the opener of the 39-working day match to Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca on June 11.
Semifinals will be performed on July 14 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and the pursuing day at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
Quarterfinals will be at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on July 9, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, the following working day and at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, and Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on July 11. The third-place match will be at Tough Rock on July 18.
The U.S. staff will open at SoFi on June 12, then engage in seven times later at Seattle’s Lumen Discipline and complete the group phase at SoFi on June 25.
AT&T Stadium, the home of the Dallas Cowboys that experienced hoped to host the closing, has the most matches of any venue with 9.
FIFA officers did not publicly demonstrate their web-site-selection system.
FIFA expanded the Planet Cup from 32 to 48 nations and elevated matches from 64 to 104. The 2026 event will be co-hosted by the U.S., Mexico and Canada, with all video games from the quarterfinals on getting performed in the U.S. FIFA introduced the 16 internet sites in 2022.
Canada will play its opening very first-round match in Toronto on June 12, then its pursuing two games in Vancouver, British Columbia, on June 18 and 24.
A nation will will need to perform 8 matches to earn the title, up from 7 given that 1982.
Other U.S. web-sites are Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts NRG Stadium in Houston Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas Town, Missouri Lincoln Money Industry in Philadelphia Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
Matches in Mexico also will be performed at Estadio BBVA in Monterrey and Estadio Akron in Guadalajara.
All 11 of the U.S. stadiums are house to NFL teams. Challenging Rock Stadium will host this year’s Copa América closing on July 14, even though MetLife was the site of the 2016 Copa América final.
The two the 1970 and 1986 Environment Cup finals had been at Azteca.
When the U.S. hosted the 24-country, 52-match event in 1994, the last was at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, and the opener at Chicago’s Soldier Area.
With the additional teams, the size of the match will mature from 29 days in the shortened 2022 timetable in Qatar and 32 times for the 2018 event in Russia.
Only just one match will entail a workforce that has not experienced at least three off times. FIFA divided the group stage into East, Central and West locations and intended to make travel shorter for team winners.
The stadiums in Arlington, Atlanta and Houston have retractable roofs that are anticipated to be shut mainly because of summer time warmth, and Inglewood and Vancouver have mounted roofs.
Synthetic turf will be changed by grass in Arlington, Atlanta, East Rutherford, Foxborough, Houston, Inglewood and Vancouver.
A number of of the venues are envisioned to widen their surfaces to accommodate a 75-by-115 lawn (68-by-105 meter) playing subject, including AT&T and MetLife.
FIFA did not announce kickoff instances. The 1994 championship begun at 12:30 p.m. PDT (3:30 p.m. EDT and 9:30 p.m. in Central Europe) but the get started has been moved up in new several years as Asia’s tv market grow to be far more considerable to FIFA. The 2022 final in Qatar began at 5 p.m. nearby time (10 a.m. EDT, 4 p.m. in Central Europe and 10 p.m. in Beijing).