The 2026 World Cup last will be held at MetLife Stadium in New York/New Jersey, organisers FIFA revealed on Sunday.
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The New york city quote held back a strong difficulty from Dallas to protect the July 19 video game, the conclusion of the broadened 48-team competition being co-hosted by the USA, Canada and Mexico.
The competitors will kickoff with the opening video game at Mexico City’s renowned Azteca Stadium on June 11.
Atlanta and Dallas will host the semi-finals while the third-place video game will be played in Miami.
The quarter-final video games will occur in Los Angeles, Kansas City, Miami and Boston.
An overall of 16 cities throughout the 3 nations will host video games with the bulk of the matches being kept in the USA.
The 1994 World Cup was likewise kept in the United States and the last happened at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, near Los Angeles.
New york city hosted video games at that competition at the old Giants Stadium, which was later on destroyed to give way for MetLife, which opened in 2010.
The choices were revealed on a live tv broadcast in North America that included FIFA president Gianni Infantino along with comic and star Kevin Hart, rap artist Drake and star Kim Kardashian.
The 82,500-seat MetLife Stadium, throughout the Hudson River from New York in East Rutherford, New Jersey, is the home of the NFL’s New York Giants and New York Jets however has actually held a variety of worldwide football video games, consisting of the last of the 2016 Copa America competition.
The New York quote had actually lobbied hard on the city’s experience at hosting significant worldwide occasions and it’s position as a worldwide city with simple transport connections for fans.
Dallas had actually hoped that AT&T Stadium, in Arlington, Texashome to the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, would gain from having a roofing to secure the video game from the aspects.
There is some settlement for Dallas with the location being provided 9 overall video games– one of the most of any place.
Los Angeles had actually likewise tossed a hat into the ring however the effort had a hard time amidst arguments with FIFA about competition upgrades required to NFL place SoFi Stadium.
The Azteca will end up being the very first arena to host World Cup competition video games in 3 different editions after 1970 and 1986.
The place hosted the finals of the 1970 and 1986 competitions.
The World Cup will occur throughout events of the 250th anniversary of American self-reliance.
A round-of-16 video game will be hung on July 4, Independence Day, in Philadelphia, where the United States Declaration of Independence was signed.
The United States will start group phase competitors at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on June 12 and will likewise play in Seattle.
Toronto was chosen to host the very first video game for the Canadian group. Vancouver is the other Canadian place which will host the team.
The growth of the competition to 48 groups from 32 ways there will be an extra 24 matches, comprising an overall of 104 video games throughout the 16 currently selected places.
The competition will take the format of 12 groups of 4 groups with the leading 2 going through together with the 8 finest third-placed groups.
From there, the competitors is a straight knock-out format with the finalists needing to play 8 video games instead of the previous 7.
The 16 host cities for the competition are: Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Guadalajara, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, Monterrey, New York-New Jersey, Philadelphia, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver.
The New York quote held back a strong difficulty from Dallas to protect the July 19 video game, the conclusion of the broadened 48-team competition being co-hosted by the U.S.A.Canada and Mexico.
(AFP)