Will be the 23rd FIFA World Cup, the quadrnial international m's soccer championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournamt will take place from June 11 to July 19, 2026. It will be jointly hosted by 16 cities in three North American countries: Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The tournamt will be the first hosted by three nations and the first North American World Cup since 1994.
The United 2026 bid beat a rival bid by Morocco during a final vote at the 68th FIFA Congress in Moscow. It will be the first World Cup since 2002 to be hosted by more than one nation. With its past hosting of the 1970 and 1986 tournamts, Mexico will become the first country to host or co-host the m's World Cup three times. The United States last hosted the m's World Cup in 1994, whereas it will be Canada's first time hosting or co-hosting the m's tournamt. The evt will also return to its traditional northern summer schedule after the 2022 edition in Qatar was held in November and December.
Starting with this edition, the FIFA World Cup expanded to 48 teams, an increase of 16 from the previous sev tournamts. The teams will be split into 12 groups of 4 teams, with the top 2 of each group and the eight best third-placed teams progressing to a new round of 32, as approved by the FIFA Council on March 14, 2023.
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The total number of games played will increase from 64 to 104, and the number of games played by teams reaching the final four will increase from sev to eight. The tournamt will last 39 days, an increase from 32 days of the 2014 and 2018 editions.
The final matchday at club level for players named in the final squads is May 24, 2026; clubs have to release their players by May 25, with exceptions granted to players participating in contintal club competition finals up until May 30. The 56 days of the combined rest, release, and tournamt periods remains idtical to the 2010, 2014 and 2018 tournamts.
The expansion to 48 teams had already be approved on January 10, 2017, wh it was decided that the tournamt would include 16 groups of 3 teams, and 80 matches in total, with the top two teams of each group progressing to a round of 32.
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Under this format, the maximum number of games per team would have remained at sev, but each team would have played one fewer group match than before. The tournamt still would have be completed within 32 days.
This format was chos over three other proposals, ranging from 40 to 48 teams, from 76 to 88 matches, and from one to four minimum matches per team.
Critics of this format argued that the use of three-team groups with two teams progressing significantly increased the risk of collusion betwe teams.
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Although ev th some risk of collusion would remain, and a possibility would emerge of teams deliberately losing shootouts to eliminate a rival.
And that the decision was driv by political rather than sporting concerns, accusing Infantino of using the promise of bringing more countries to the World Cup to win his election.
The FIFA Council wt back and forth betwe 2013 and 2017 on limitations within hosting rotation based on the contintal confederations. Originally, it was set that bids to be host would not be allowed from countries belonging to confederations that hosted the two preceding tournamts. It was temporarily changed to only prohibit countries belonging to the confederation that hosted the previous World Cup from bidding to host the following tournamt,
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The FIFA Council made an exception to pottially grant eligibility to member associations of the confederation of the second-to-last host of the FIFA World Cup in the evt that none of the received bids fulfill the strict technical and financial requiremts.
In March 2017, FIFA presidt Gianni Infantino confirmed that Europe (UEFA) and Asia (AFC) are excluded from the bidding following the selection of Russia and Qatar in 2018 and 2022 respectively.
Therefore, the 2026 World Cup could be hosted by one of the remaining four confederations: CONCACAF (North America; last hosted in 1994), CAF (Africa; last hosted in 2010), CONMEBOL (South America; last hosted in 2014), or OFC (Oceania, never hosted before), or pottially by UEFA in case no bid from those four met the requiremts.
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Co-hosting the FIFA World Cup—which had be banned by FIFA after the 2002 World Cup—was approved for the 2026 World Cup, though not limited to a specific number but instead evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Also for 2026, the FIFA geral secretariat, after consultation with the Competitions Committee, had the power to exclude bidders who did not meet the minimum technical requiremts to host the competition.
In March 2022, Liga MX presidt Mikel Arriola claimed Mexico's involvemt as cohost could have be at risk if the league and the federation had not responded quickly to the Querétaro–Atlas riot betwe rival fans that left 26 spectators injured and resulted in 14 arrests. Arriola said FIFA was shocked by the incidt but Infantino was satisfied with the sanctions handed down against Querétaro.
Canada, Mexico, and the United States had all publicly considered bidding for the tournamt separately, but the United joint bid was announced on April 10, 2017.
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The voting took place on June 13, 2018, during the 68th FIFA Congress in Moscow, and it was oped to all 203 eligible members.
The United bid won with 134 valid ballots, while the Morocco bid received 65 valid ballots. Iran voted for the option None of the bids, while Cuba, Slovia, and Spain abstained from voting.
During the bidding process, 41 cities with 43 existing, fully functional vues with regular tants (except Montreal) and 2 vues under construction submitted to be part of the bid (3 vues in 3 cities in Mexico; 9 vues in 7 cities in Canada; 38 vues in 34 cities in the United States). A first-round elimination cut nine vues and nine cities. A second-round elimination cut an additional nine vues in six cities, while three vues in three cities (Chicago, Minneapolis, and Vancouver) dropped out due to FIFA's unwillingness to discuss financial details.
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On June 16, 2022, the sixte host cities (2 in Canada, 3 in Mexico, 11 in the United States) were announced by FIFA: Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Guadalajara, Kansas City, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Monterrey, Mexico City, Toronto, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Miami.
Eight of the sixte chos stadiums have permant artificial turf surfaces that are planned to be replaced with grass under the direction of FIFA and a University of Tnessee–Michigan State University research team. Four vues (Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, and Vancouver) are indoor stadiums that use retractable roof systems, all equipped with climate control while a fifth, Los Angeles, is op-air but has a transluct roof and no climate control.
Although there are soccer-specific stadiums in Canada and the United States, the largest dedicated soccer-specific stadium in the U.S., Geodis Park in Nashville, seats 30, 000, which falls short of FIFA's minimum of 40, 000 (Toronto's BMO Field is being expanded from 30, 000 to 45, 500 for this tournamt).
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Stadiums including Mercedes-Bz Stadium in Atlanta, Gillette Stadium in Foxborough and Lum Field in Seattle are used by National Football League (NFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS) teams.
Although primarily used for gridiron football, with the American stadiums having hosted NFL teams, and Canada's stadiums hosting the Canadian Football League (CFL), all of the Canadian and American stadiums have be used on numerous occasions for soccer and are also designed to host that sport.
Mexico City is the only capital of the three host nations chos as a vue site, with Ottawa and Washington, D.C., joining Bonn (West Germany, 1974) and Tokyo (Japan, 2002) as the only capital cities not selected to host World Cup matches. Washington was a host city candidate but, due to the poor state of FedExField, combined its bid with nearby Baltimore's, which was also unsuccessful. Other cities eliminated from the final hosting list were Cincinnati, Dver, Nashville, Orlando, and Edmonton. Ottawa's candidate vue, TD Place Stadium, was eliminated early on due to insufficit capacity.
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None of the stadiums used in the 1994 FIFA World Cup will be used in this tournamt, and the Azteca is the only stadium in this tournamt that was used in the 1970 and 1986 FIFA World Cups.
On August 31, 2022, FIFA Presidt Gianni Infantino confirmed that six CONCACAF teams will qualify for the World Cup, with Canada, Mexico, and the United States automatically qualifying as hosts.
The six teams in the play-offs will comprise one team from each confederation excluding UEFA, and one additional team from the confederation of the host countries (CONCACAF). Two of the teams will be seeded based on the World Rankings, and they will play-off against the winners of two knockout games betwe the four unseeded teams for the two FIFA World Cup berths. The four-game tournamt is to be played in one or more of the host countries, and will also be used
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