2026 FIFA World Cup closing to be performed in New Jersey

The 2026 World Cup closing will likely be performed 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 event unfold throughout three North American nations to Mexico Metropolis’s Estadio Azteca on June 11 and the finale to the house of the NFL’s New York Jets and Giants.

“Will probably be a celebration of our variety and our values,” New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy stated in a phone interview. “The larger image is what leads as much as it and what we go away behind for the many years to come back.”

Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones had lobbied for the ultimate to be at his AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

“The competitors was coping with the notion of the coastal, of a New York, or a Los Angeles,” he stated. “If this have been completely being performed to simply America and america, that wouldn’t have been such a formidable factor to beat. However internationally, that’s formidable to beat.”

All video games from the quarterfinals on are in america. 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 Metropolis, Missouri, and Arduous Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on July 11. The third-place recreation will likely be at Arduous Rock on July 18.

The U.S. workforce will prepare in suburban Atlanta forward of the event and open at SoFi on June 12. The People play seven days later at Seattle’s Lumen Subject 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 likely be performed within 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 solution to actually develop the sport and to alter soccer in America eternally is to carry out effectively and do one thing that no U.S. workforce has ever accomplished earlier than.”

AT&T, which had hopes to current the ultimate, will host a tournament-high 9 matches. There will likely be eight every at MetLife, SoFi and Mercedes Benz; seven apiece at Arduous Rock, Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and NRG Stadium in Houston; and 6 apiece at Lumen, Lincoln Monetary Subject in Philadelphia, Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, and Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

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

Philadelphia’s closing match will likely be a round-of-16 assembly on July 4, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Philadelphia’s Residents Financial institution Park hosts baseball’s All-Star Sport, possible on July 14.

Santa Clara is the one U.S. website that won’t host a recreation 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 discovered 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 ultimate can be at AT&T.

“We did the whole lot we might to place our head downs, concentrate on the job at hand, type of push out the noise, and that turned out to be a successful formulation,” Murphy stated,

Mexico will play its second match at Estadio BBVA in Monterrey on June 18 and return to Azteca on June 24. Mexico Metropolis 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. Every Canada venue will host 13 video games.

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

All 11 of the U.S. stadiums are house to NFL groups. Arduous Rock will host this yr’s Copa América closing on July 14, whereas MetLife was the location of the 2016 Copa América closing.

Each the 1970 and 1986 World Cup finals have been at Azteca.

When the U.S. hosted the 24-nation, 52-game event in 1994, the ultimate was on the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, the opener at Chicago’s Soldier Subject and the semifinals at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford and the Rose Bowl.

With the extra groups, the size of the event will develop from 29 days within the shortened 2022 schedule in Qatar and 32 days for the 2018 event in Russia.

Just 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.

Synthetic turf will likely be changed by grass in Arlington, Atlanta, East Rutherford, Foxborough, Houston, Inglewood and Vancouver.

A number of of the venues are anticipated to widen their surfaces to accommodate a 75-by-115 yard (68-by-105 meter) enjoying 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 recent times as Asia’s tv market develop into extra vital to FIFA. The 2022 closing 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).