Houston World Cup 2026

Houston is hosting seven World Cup matches, and it has the two angles no other host city can match. Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal plays twice here in the group stage — June 17 and June 23 — and the city draws a Round of 16 on July 4th, a noon knockout match that ends with the…

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Kansas City World Cup 2026

Kansas City is hosting six World Cup matches, and two of them are the kind you build a trip around. Defending champions Argentina open here on June 16 with Lionel Messi — possibly the last World Cup opener of his career — and the city closes its tournament with a quarterfinal on July 11, the…

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FIFA World Cup 2026 in New York / New Jersey

No host city carries more of this tournament than New York / New Jersey. Eight matches at MetLife Stadium — five group games, a Round of 32, a Round of 16, and the July 19 Final — make it the only venue staging both a Round of 16 and the title match. If the 2026…

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FIFA World Cup 2026 in Los Angeles

Los Angeles opens the United States’ World Cup on June 12 and runs all the way to a quarterfinal — eight matches at SoFi Stadium, including two USMNT group games that will be the biggest sporting events the city has hosted since the 1984 Olympics. The soccer is the easy part. The catch, because it’s…

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FIFA World Cup 2026 in Mexico City

Mexico City opens the entire tournament on June 11 — and it does it in the one stadium that has already seen all of this. The Azteca becomes the first ground in history to host matches at three men’s World Cups: 1970, 1986, and now 2026. Pelé lifted the trophy here. Sixteen years later Maradona…

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