The 2026 World Cup will be hosted at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.

The 2026 World Cup final will take place at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on July 19th.

On Sunday, FIFA announced that the opening match of the 39-day tournament will take place at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City on June 11.

The semifinals will take place on July 14 and 15 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta.

The quarterfinals will take place at Gillette Stadium, SoFi Stadium, Arrowhead Stadium, and Hard Rock Stadium on July 9, 10, and 11. The third-place game will be held at Hard Rock Stadium on July 18.

The group stage of the U.S. team's soccer tournament will begin at SoFi on June 12, followed by a game at Seattle's Lumen Field seven days later, and concluding at SoFi on June 25.

The most matches of any venue are at AT&T Stadium, which is the home of the Dallas Cowboys and was hoping to host the final.

FIFA officials did not publicly explain their site-decision process.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be hosted by the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, with all quarterfinal games being played in the U.S. FIFA has expanded the tournament to 48 nations and increased the number of matches from 64 to 104. The 16 sites for the 2022 tournament were announced by FIFA.

On June 12, Canada will play its first-round match in Toronto, followed by its next two games in Vancouver, British Columbia, on June 18 and 24.

Since 1982, the number of matches needed to win the title has increased from seven to eight.

Other U.S. stadiums include Gillette Stadium, NRG Stadium, Arrowhead Stadium, Lincoln Financial Field, and Levi's Stadium.

In addition to the matches in Mexico, they will also be played at Estadio BBVA in Monterrey and Estadio Akron in Guadalajara.

The 2016 Copa América final was held at MetLife Stadium, while Hard Rock Stadium will host this year's Copa América final on July 14.

Both the 1970 and 1986 World Cup finals were at Azteca.

In 1994, the 24-nation, 52-game tournament was hosted by the U.S. The final match took place at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, while the opening game was held at Chicago’s Soldier Field.

The length of the tournament will increase from 29 days in the 2022 schedule in Qatar to 32 days for the 2018 tournament in Russia with the addition of more teams.

FIFA intended to shorten travel for group winners by dividing the group stage into East, Central, and West regions, but only one team that has not had at least three off days will be involved.

The stadiums in Arlington, Atlanta, and Houston have retractable roofs that are predicted to remain closed during the summer due to heat, while Inglewood and Vancouver have fixed roofs.

Grass will replace artificial turf in Arlington, Atlanta, East Rutherford, Foxborough, Houston, Inglewood, and Vancouver.

The playing field will be expanded to 75-by-115 yards (68-by-105 meters) at several venues, including AT&T and MetLife.

The 1994 championship started at 12:30 p.m. PDT (3:30 p.m. EDT and 9:30 p.m. in Central Europe), but the start has been moved up in recent years as Asia's television market becomes more significant to FIFA. The 2022 final in Qatar started at 5 p.m. local time (10 a.m. EDT, 4 p.m. in Central Europe, and 10 p.m. in Beijing).