NEW YORK — Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, Seattle and Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, had been the newcomers among the many 11 U.S. websites picked to host video games on the 2026 World Cup, whereas Baltimore, Cincinnati, Denver, Nashville, Tennessee, and Orlando, Florida, had been neglected.
Arlington, Texas; East Rutherford, New Jersey; Foxborough, Massachusetts, and Inglewood and Santa Clara, California, had been the holdovers.
FIFA introduced its alternatives Thursday for the primary World Cup with three co-hosts, additionally selecting three Mexican cities and two in Canada.
The U.S. alternatives included not one of the 9 stadiums used on the 1994 World Cup. The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, and Orlando’s Tenting World Stadium had been the one ones remaining in competition, and so they had been among the many websites dropped within the ultimate spherical.
New stadiums had been chosen in 5 areas utilized in 1994. AT&T Stadium in Texas changed Dallas’ Cotton Bowl; SoFi Stadium in Inglewood took over for Pasadena’s Rose Bowl; and Levi’s Stadium as a substitute of Stanford Stadium.
Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Masschusetts, changed torn-down stadiums that had been adjoining, Giants Stadium and Foxboro Stadium.
Orlando’s Tenting World was dropped amongst present 1994 venues. The Detroit space, the place the previous Pontiac Silverdome hosted video games, was lower in 2018 and Baltimore’s M&T Financial institution Stadium was dropped after FedEx Area in Landover, Maryland, dropped out. Washington’s RFK Stadium was utilized in 1994.
Chicago, which hosted the 1994 opener at Solider Area, refused to bid, citing FIFA’s financial calls for.
Mexico Metropolis’s Estadio Azteca, which hosted the 1970 and ’86 finals and can turn out to be the primary stadium in three World Cups, was chosen together with Guadalajara’s Estadio Akron and Monterrey’s Estadio BBVA.
Toronto’s BMO Area and Vancouver, British Columbia’s B.C. Place had been picked whereas Edmonton, Alberta’s Commonwealth Stadium was dropped.
The bid plan envisioned 60 video games within the U.S., together with all from the quarterfinals on, and 10 every in Mexico and Canada.
Particular websites for every spherical will likely be introduced later.
In distinction to the 1992 web site announcement throughout a information convention, the 2026 announcement was made throughout a televised present from Fox’s studio in Manhattan.
