Canada wins vote to co-host 2026 FIFA World Cup with U.S and Mexico
 

The biggest and most popular sporting event on the planet is coming to Canada.

In a historic vote held in Moscow on Wednesday, the “United Bid” of Canada, Mexico and the United States beat out Morocco to win the right to co-host the 2026 FIFA World Cup, marking the first time that international soccer’s marquee event will touch down on Canadian soil.

The “United Bid” won the vote 134-65 over Morocco during a special congressional meeting where every single member nation of FIFA, excluding the four potential host countries, cast a ballot.

Source: https://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/cana...up-u-s-mexico/

We will be so old in 2026 :1orglaugh

8 years from now :winkwink:, How old are you ? 42 ? :Oh crap

That will make you 50 then :1orglaugh

No is not coming to Canada is coming to

- Canada
- USA
- Mexio

the question is where the opening match will be. And where the finale will be. Probably no more than 10 -12 games will be in Canada.
Otherwise, at the women's world championship I saw games on artificial grass and roofed stadiums - no one will allow it at the World Cup.
stadiums in Canada have a small capacity - rght now Mexico is a best place, where there are stadiums for 80-90 thousand people.
anyway is a plenty work to do.

or maybe the united nations of Trumpistan at that point...

Toronto For Sure, Montreal i dont know ! Our Edmonton Mayor is trying hard and we are ready to build a new or renovated the old stadium :1orglaugh.

I think Toronto Host Fifa in 2007, so i would not be surprize they would choose Tdot again for few games.

Montreal will for sure get some games. Olympic Stadium is perfect for World Cup matches.

Chris you know the Big O is gross!! I don't want to go to a game there, when I went for Club America vs the Impact I thought the stadium was going to collapse. Also now we got to sink more money into installing grass there as well? Closed air stadium in the middle of summer for soccer :(

Stadiums picked to host games, USA have to still filter their list down to 10 from the below 17. Mexico and Canada stadiums are confirmed. According to FIFA rules, stadiums for opening games and finals must be at least 80,000 seaters, group games at least 40,000.

Opening game will be in either Estadio Azteca or Rose Bowl and the final will be held at MetLife Stadium. Semi Finals will be held in AT&T Stadium and Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

CANADA - 10 GAMES (7 group games, 2 last 32 games, 1 last 16 game)

Montreal - Olympic Stadium - 61,004 (Expandable to 73,000)

Edmonton - Commonwealth Stadium - 56,302

Toronto - BMO Field - 45,500

MEXICO - 10 GAMES (7 group games, 2 last 32 games, 1 last 16 game)

Mexico City - Estadio Azteca - 87,523

Monterrey - Estadio BBVA Bancomer - 53,500

Guadalajara - Estadio Akron - 46,232

USA - 60 GAMES

Los Angeles - Rose Bowl - 92,000

New Jersey - MetLife Stadium - 82,500 (Final will be held here)

Washington DC - FedExField - 82,000

Dallas - AT&T Stadium - 80,000 (Expandable to 100,000)

Kansas City - Arrowhead Stadium - 76,416

Denver - Sports Authority Field at Mile High - 76,125

Houston - NRG Stadium - 71,795

Baltimore - M&T Stadium - 71,006

Atlanta - Mercedes-Benz Stadium - 71,000 (Expandable to 83,000)

Philadelphia - Lincoln Financial Field - 69,176

Nashville - Nissan Stadium - 69,143 (Expandable to 75,000)

Seattle - CenturyLink Field - 69,000 (Expandable to 72,000)

San Francisco - Levi's Stadium - 68,500 (Expandable to 75,000)

Boston - Gilette Stadium - 65,878

Cincinnati - Paul Brown Stadium - 65,515

Miami - Hard Rock Stadium - 64,767

Orlando - Camping World Stadium - 60,219

Just Learned in the News from our mayor is not done yet for us in Edmonton.
Fifa are worry about our airport Capacity and Numbers of Tier1 Hotels available in the City :Oh crap

I would not minded fly back in Toronto or Montreal for this event LOL anyway, well worth it.

It's amazing to see us compared to American Stadiums. I think someone did a breakdown of how Texas could host a world cup by itself.

In our local news seems like our city would need to inject 50M in infrastructure Just for the Fifa can consider :1orglaugh

We are Dead last on their list for the numbers of 4 stars hotel and Transportation :1orglaugh That's shitty

I for one will welcome our American Trumpistan overlords.

It's pretty bad yes and could do with some fixing-up, but will Montreal spend the money to do it? And will people complain? Is the Big-O worth saving? I think it is event though I haven't been there in forever.

it's a cement hole.. i dread every year when the Jays play their last 2 spring training games there because not only is it falling apart it's also that old turf that nobody anywhere uses anymore. no idea how they would put grass in a indoor stadium either. they can't even do that with rogers centre and they spent a lot of money trying to figure it out

We have many high school stadiums that rival college/pro stadiums in Texas.

Denver would be a very rough choice. Very few of the athletes would be accustomed to that altitude. That would be very punishing in such an intense sport.

I'm looking forward to the games!

I would be open to us seriously looking into the option of expanding Stade Saputo to a size that would work for the World cup game, I don't know if by doing that it would be too expensive after for Saputo to maintain or keep it running but that's something I would be willing to put tax dollars into.

To put another dollar into the olympic stadium would really get me agitated. I went there for the Impact vs Club America game and it was just brutal, no charm seating was not intimate and I feared it's security. Again not to mention what an embarrassment it would be to host a world cup game indoors (I would be very against any proposal to fix the roof again)

What? No chance, I drove across the US and in the middle of Nebraska they had high school stadiums the size of where the Montreal Aloutettes play (CFL). In Texas where Football is church there is no high school in Canada comparable.

"We" = Texan, not Canadian.

oh Totally my bad, I saw your blue boxy avatar and thought you were Brian Mike. That makes a bunch of sense.

As for Denver, some teams would struggle. The South American's would love it. They have to play against Bolivia which is 11,000 feet plus over double Mile high :)