World Cup 2026: tournament schedule and where the final will be played announced, with three favorite venues

dallas, New York AND The Angels They appear as the main candidates to host the final of World Cup 2026which will be jointly organized by the United States, Mexico and Canada and whose schedule will be revealed this Sunday by FIFA.

This afternoon at 5pm (Argentine time) the event will begin in which FIFA will reveal the complete calendar and distribution by city of this World Cup expanded to 48 teams instead of 32, which will give rise to a record of 104 games in total.

Thus, in addition to the final, FIFA will announce, among other things, where the qualifying rounds will be played and the opening match of this tournament which will take the place of Qatar 2022where Argentina was crowned Lionel Messi.

In the absence of knowing which teams will play in this World Cup event, FIFA will be able to detail the venues of the three host countries (USA, Mexico and Canada) during the group stage.

Dallas with him AT&T Stadium in ArlingtonNew York with the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford and Los Angeles with the SoFInglewood Stadium They are the three favorites to win the jackpot of the final scheduled for Sunday 19 July 2026.

They are all NFL stadiums: the Dallas Cowboys, the New York Giants and the New York Jets, the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers.

With three countries hosting the World Cup for the first time in history, the United States will take control of the majority of the tournament It will have 11 locations out of 16 total: Seattle, San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Boston, Philadelphia, Miami and New York/New Jersey.

Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey are the three Mexican venues, while Vancouver and Toronto will be the Canadian cities of this World Cup.

For Mexico It will be the third time that the FIFA World Cup will take place in their country after those of 1970 and 1986, while United States of America He will repeat himself as organizer after the 1994 edition.

On that occasion, the World Cup final was played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena (Los Angeles, USA), a stadium which is no longer among those chosen for this tournament.

As for venues in Mexican cities, the Azteca Stadium will become the first in history to host three different World Cups.

For its part, Canada will debut as an organizing country, although it hosted the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2015.