Where will 2026 FIFA World Cup take place?
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FIFA World Cup 2026 bid process
FIFA has already made plans for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with several ambitious — and potentially divisive — possibilities that were on the desk, even though the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar is yet to begin.
The 2022 FIFA World Cup will mark several historical firsts, including the first-ever World Cup hosted in the Middle East and the first World Cup ever to take place in the wintertime in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Where will the 2026 FIFA World Cup take place?
FIFA announced back in 2018 that the 2026 World Cup will be held in North America, with 80 fixtures stretched across the region’s three largest countries. North America will host the greatest FIFA World Cup in antiquity. The World Cup will feature 48 teams, three host nations, and a record amount of arenas, and the USA, Canada, and Mexico will deliver it all to existence.
How did North America win the bid to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup?
The competing Moroccan bid was defeated by the tri-national North American proposal, which received 134 votes to Morocco’s 65. The FIFA World Cup for men in 2026 will be collectively organized for the second time, and for the first time since South Korea and Japan collaborated to bring the competition to Asia in 2002.
How will FIFA World Cup 2026 be played in 3 countries in North America?
Three North American nations—the United States, Canada, and Mexico—will host the 2026 FIFA World Cup. In the championship’s 80 games, 60 will be featured in the United States, 10 in Canada, and 10 in Mexico. Men’s FIFA World Cups have earlier been held in both the United States and Mexico, with Mexico lined to become the first nation to host three men’s competitions (1970, 1986, and 2026).
The United States, which was organized in 1994, will soon join Mexico, Brazil, Italy, France, and Germany as nations that have hosted more than one men’s FIFA World Cup. Canada has previously hosted the FIFA Women’s World Cup (2015) and the FIFA Men’s Under-20 World Cup (2007), indicating that it will be well-prepared to embrace the world once again for the senior men’s FIFA World Cup tournament.
How are cities divided for FIFA World Cup 2026 in three nations of North America?
FIFA revealed the particular arenas and cities to organize games on June 16, 2022, at an event in New York City that was live-streamed around the world. FIFA picked 16 venues from among the 23 cities designated by the ‘United Bid’ to organize FIFA World Cup matches in 2026. Eleven of the sixteen cities picked were in the United States, three in Mexico, and two in Canada — Vancouver, and Toronto.
Mexico would be the first country to organize the World Cup three times, while Canada will be hosting the event for the first time.
The host stadiums will be split up into three countries, with 11 in the US, three in Mexico, and two in Canada. Two of the stadiums, Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca and Los Angeles’ Rose Bowl, have earlier held World Cup finals. So far, the Estadio Azteca, along with the Maracana in Brazil, is one of the only two arenas in the world to have featured two men’s World Cup finals.
How many teams will be at World Cup 2026?
The 32-team layout employed since the 1998 World Cup in France will be replaced by a broadening format for the first time at the 2026 World Cup, FIFA officially announced in 2017. A 48-nation tournament will have a 50% larger field than before. This will raise the number of teams competing by 16 and result in more games being played throughout the tournament.
The highest number of games that any team could play under the new format, according to FIFA, would still be seven for each finalist.
The group stage of the 2026 World Cup will feature 16 groups of three teams each. The top two nations from every group will then proceed to a knockout stage with 32 teams, which is sure to be chaotic and intriguing.
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