The U.S. cities hosting the 2026 World Cup are announced

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NPR

Four summers from now, 48 countries will vie for the 2026 World Cup as the tournament is staged in cities across the United States, Canada and Mexico.

FIFA, soccer's international governing body, announced these will be the host cities for 2026:

Vancouver

Seattle

San Francisco

Los Angeles (SoFi Stadium)

Guadalajara, Mexico

Kansas City

Dallas

Atlanta

Houston

Monterrey, Mexico

Mexico City

Toronto

Boston

Philadelphia

Miami

New York/New Jersey

Eleven sites are in the U.S., three are in Mexico, and two in Canada. Locations for particular matches, including the sites of the opening matches and final, will be announced later.

This will be the first time that the tournament will include 48 teams, instead of the current 32-team format. It will also be the first time the tournament is staged across three host nations.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/16/1105562734/us-cities-hosting-2026-world-cup-announcement

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They will be celebrating here in Philly because those who worked on bringing a game here worked so hard.

Link to tweet

FIFA World Cup
@FIFAWorldCup
Your #FIFAWorldCup 2026 Host Cities:

🇺🇸Atlanta
🇺🇸Boston
🇺🇸Dallas
🇲🇽Guadalajara
🇺🇸Houston
🇺🇸Kansas City
🇺🇸Los Angeles
🇲🇽Mexico City
🇺🇸Miami
🇲🇽Monterrey
🇺🇸New York / New Jersey
🇺🇸Philadelphia
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area
🇺🇸Seattle
🇨🇦Toronto
🇨🇦Vancouver
5:49 PM · Jun 16, 2022

[Lil Liberal Laura]

1. Soccor?

Oh god I'm cumming, oh god I'm cumming.....

[Lovie777]

2. Oh geez . ...

I only thought SF for California. SoFi here in Inglewood is a couple miles away from me.

[awesomerwb1]

4. That's were the final might be played nt

[VWolf]

7. Final will be played at MetLife in the swamps of Jersey

A few miles from my home

Gotta save up for those $1000 cheap seats!

ETA - That's my prediction

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

33. Haven't been there in years.

When did the Taco Bell become a Starbucks?

[Rebl2]

3. Glad to

see a smaller city like Kansas City was picked as host city. They have worked on this for many years. It’s a great soccer town. KC is building a women's soccer stadium for KC Current and should be done in next couple years. Mens team, Sporting KC, is in KCK, but FIFA games will be played at Arrowhead Stadium. Clark Hunt (KC Chiefs) said his father who brought Chiefs to KC, wanted to bring soccer here 50 years ago. I am so happy for the city!

[VWolf]

8. KC deserved it, for sure n/t

[Lulu KC]

15. Yay KC!!! N//t

[Stallion]

16. Clark Hunt Was Actually a Star Soccer Player at SMU

grew up going to neighborhood Dallas Tornado games which was Lamar Hunt's initial foray into professional soccer in the late 60s early 70s

[Rebl2]

17. Did not

know Clark played soccer. Lamar wanted to bring soccer to KC too, but don’t know if he was ever involved in bringing first team, the Wizards, to KC.

[Stallion]

22. Dallas Tornado Were NASL in Late 60s-early 70s and then Lamar started the Wizards in MLS

Hunt was accomplished soccer player in his early days. He attended Southern Methodist University where he was captain of a nationally ranked soccer team and a two-time Academic All-American. It only made sense that after college Clark began his career helping his dad run the Kansas City Wizards of the MLS. He was an influential figure in the emergence of Major League Soccer and was with the Wizards until they were sold in 2006. Today, he still sits on the board of FC Dallas, a family owned club.

Clark Hunt graduated No. 1 in his class-not just another rich kid. His Dad was a class act too.

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. My city is going crazy right now.

Kansas City has been working a long time to get this event. There is a big celebration going on.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. They are celebrating here - especially since 2026 will also be the 250th anniversary

of the Declaration of Independence - the Semiquincentennial.

[LonePirate]

6. I'd love to catch some feeds of the games in Mexico with Mexican announcers.

The crowds and announcers are going to be WILD!

[róisín_dubh]

23. Hopefully they get their fans in check.

Their continued homophobic chant is why I no longer support them (after the US), despite spending my career working in the country.

[IronLionZion]

10. That's an impressive amount of cities

and it's good to spread it out like that so that the risks and rewards are shared. A very socialist idea

[roamer65]

11. If the United States makes it to sestercentennial year 2026.

I have my doubts.

[Ron Obvious]

12. Glad to see Seattle on the list

Having learnt from not hosting it in 1994 when the UW refused to put in grass for it. Seattle has the perfect summer temperatures for this event, unlike Orlando who got it instead back then.

I assume it will be in the Seahawks/Sounders stadium this time.

[Initech]

13. I wonder how it's going to work at SoFi Stadium if they don't use real grass?

[greenjar_01]

14. Has to be played on real grass

They'll lay some down for it.

[rpannier]

18. They'll do like they did in Detroit for the 94 World Cup

They'll lay grass

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

26. They might need to outlaw the celebratory knee slides, ...

... lest they push the sod into accordion-fold piles.

[rpannier]

19. Be curious if FIFA and Mexico had a sit down about their fans behavior

If they don't get their act together those venues will be moved

[róisín_dubh]

24. Exactly this. But I'm sure they won't. Nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

27. What's wrong with Mexican fans? Do they have vuvuzelas?

[rpannier]

30. Mexican futbol has a history of chanting homophobic slurs at the opponents

Their national team has played games without fans because of this

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/homophobic-chant-mexico-soccer-federation-fifa/1vfctcoupayz41bbv8mdwxl108

https://www.outsports.com/2022/1/19/22891655/mexico-soccer-federation-homophobic-chant-puto-ban

https://www.goal.com/en/news/mexico-homophobic-puto-chant/bltf3ff23c7d060c178

https://sports.yahoo.com/mexico-puto-chant-world-cup-qualifiers-without-fans-153948541.html

[Retrograde]

20. Bah - it's at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara

instead of Stanford Stadium like in 1994 - I could walk to that one (and the company I worked for at the time did some of the tech so we got dibs on tickets).

I'm glad to see it's a North American effort rather than a single country.

[brooklynite]

21. Odd that Washington didn't get picked.

In 1994 I saw Spain play in the preliminary round at RFK.

[Ace Rothstein]

25. No stadium.

FedEx is a total dump from all reports that I've read.

[Efilroft Sul]

28. Monterrey's stadium should host the Final based on its spectacular view alone.

[mcar]

29. This is exciting news

[electric_blue68]

31. Yay NYC/NJ gets a turn...

I'm not a real soccer fan but I appreciate a great play in any sports.

When I was a kid (late '50s, early '60s, my dad used to take us to the big northern-most park in the city (The Bronx) Van Cortland Park.

Besides people flying model airplanes, the Irish, Italian, and Greek immigrants used to play soccer up there.

[BradAllison]

32. "Boston" means Foxboro

Which is nowhere near fucking Boston.