World Cup 2026

The 2026 FIFA World Cup stadiums will be divided into sixteen venues. Get to know them.

MetLife Stadium / HOK Hard Rock Stadium / HOK Gillette Stadium / Populous NRG Stadium / Populous Mercedes-Benz Stadium / HOK Despite the confusion around

Despite the decision to hold Qatar 2022 midway through the club season—making it a winter tournament for European teams—the next iteration will revert back to ...

The former changed Argentina's style of play completely, giving them a difficult press to deal with and freeing up Messi to do his thing. Just because we are unlikely to see two of the greatest players of all time in Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo and generational talents such as Luka Modrić at another World Cup, doesn't mean it's time for sadness. The goal for 2026 has to be to go further at the very least. A great deal of major talent shone in Qatar and is set to play even bigger roles four years from now. One has to wonder if Harry Kane, who will be 33 by the end of the next tournament, will need some stiffer competition in North America. It's also easy to forget Ferrán Torres is only 22 years old and still has many years of improvement ahead of him. Twelve groups of four seem more palatable, but there is likely to be a fair bit of toing and froing as the governing body does what it can to maximise profits from television rights for the competition. It's likely both Spain and England will be looking to 2026 as their opportunity to strike. All knockout games from the quarter-finals on will take place in the U.S., with MetLife Stadium (East Rutherford, New Jersey), SoFi Stadium (Inglewood, California) and AT&T Stadium (Dallas) among the favourites to host the final. While Brazil is always expected to perform, there will certainly need to be an uptick in key areas ahead of 2026. The dressing room influence of Thiago Silva and Dani Alves will be long gone. FIFA initially indicated this would break down into 16 groups of three, a format that was put forward to ensure every country goes for the win in their two confirmed games.

The 2022 FIFA World Cup is just around the corner as it gets started on November 20 with the host country Qatar opening group stage play against Ecuador.

Mexico has hosted the World Cup twice, in 1970 and 1986, while Canada will host World Cup matches for the first time in history. The United States last hosted the World Cup in 1994, when they made it out of the group stage but lost 1-0 to Brazil in the Round of 16. The 2026 World Cup will be hosted jointly by Canada, Mexico, and the United States after the United bid was awarded hosting duties back in 2018.

While there is still much to be sorted out logistically for the event, here is what we know at the moment about World Cup 2026.

Anything less than getting to to the knockout round on home soil in 2026 will be a major disappointment for Canada. breaks through and shows it can just do more than compete with the traditional world powers, but beat them and get to later stages of the event. Just divide the field into eight groups of four, with the top two teams advancing to the round of 16/knockout stage. The same results won’t cut it for all three nations in 2026. Another option could be to divide the field into two, 24-team halves that within those halves feature six groups of four teams. The U.S., Canada and Mexico have automatically qualified as hosts, so the qualifying stage in the next couple of years will determine the other 45 teams.

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