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Seattle World Cup 2026
Seattle is hosting six World Cup matches, and the marquee is the one American fans circled the moment the draw came out: USA vs. Australia on June 19, the host nation playing in the loudest, most established soccer city in the country. There’s a Round of 16 on July 6 here too. But Seattle’s real…
Read MoreHouston 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…
Read MoreKansas 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…
Read MoreFIFA 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…
Read MoreFIFA 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…
Read MoreFIFA 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…
Read MoreFIFA World Cup 2026 Host Cities: Where to Stay, How to Get There, and Which Match Is Worth Flying For
Kickoff times shown in stadium-local time first. The Australia vs Türkiye match in Vancouver, for example, appears on most broadcast schedules as “June 13, 12 AM ET” — but locally that’s a Friday June 12 evening kickoff. Plan your travel around the local date. The 2026 FIFA World Cup runs June 11 through July 19…
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