United 2026 FIFA World Cup bid

2026 FIFA World Cup bid
United 2026
Canada–United States–Mexico 2026
Tournament details
Host countriesCanada
United States
Mexico
Venues16 (selected from a proposal of 23) (in 16 host cities)
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United 2026, also known as the North American 2026 bid, was a successful joint bid led by the United States Soccer Federation, together with the Canadian Soccer Association and the Mexican Football Federation, to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America.

While the soccer federations of Canada, Mexico, and the United States had individually announced plans to field a bid for the 2026 World Cup, the concept of a joint bid among the three North American countries was first proposed in 2016. The joint bid was unveiled on April 10, 2017, under which the tournament would be held at venues in all three countries. A shortlist of 23 candidate cities were named in the official bid, with 17 in the U.S., 3 in Canada, and 3 in Mexico. The final list included eleven U.S. cities that joined two Canadian cities and three Mexican cities, to form the roster of 16 cities that hosted the matches of the World Cup. Although a joint bid, the majority of the matches were held in the United States. The initial bid recommended that the United States would host 60 of the 80 matches.[1] After the tournament format was modified in March 2023, the match allocation then stood as follows: of the 104 matches, Canada hosted 13 matches, Mexico hosted 13 matches, and the United States hosted 78 matches, including all matches from the quarterfinals onward.

On June 13, 2018, at the 68th FIFA Congress in Moscow, Russia, the United bid was selected by 134 votes to Morocco's 65.[2] Upon this selection, Canada became the fifth country to host both the men's and women's World Cup, joining Sweden, the United States, Germany, and France. Mexico became the first country to host three men's World Cups, and the United States became the first country to host both the men's and women's World Cup twice each. This was the first World Cup to be hosted in three countries, as well as the first since 2002 and the second overall to be held in multiple countries.

Background

The three soccer federations of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. announced interest in submitting a bid for the 2026 FIFA World Cup years before the federations intended to unify their efforts.

In July 2012, Canadian Soccer Association president Victor Montagliani confirmed plans for a Canadian bid, saying: "We have verbally told FIFA that when the bid process begins for the next available World Cup, which would be the 2026 World Cup, that the CSA will be one of the countries putting in a formal proposal".[3] At the time the bid was announced, Canada had hosted the men's 1987 Under-16 World Championship and the U-20 World Cups for both men and women; the country has since hosted the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015. In October 2013, Montagliani confirmed Canada's intention to bid for the 2026 tournament[4] and the Canadian Soccer Association reiterated this in January 2014.[5]

In September 2012, Mexican Football Federation (FMF) President Justino Compeán confirmed plans for a Mexican bid.[6] In October 2013, Liga MX President said that Mexico was interested in joining forces with the U.S. to co-host a bid for the 2026 World Cup.[7] On December 9, 2014, FMF confirmed that it was bidding for the 2026 World Cup.[8]

On May 13, 2016, at the FIFA Congress in Mexico City, USSF board member John Motta told ESPN "whatever happens, we will bid for the 2026 World Cup -- either jointly (with Mexico or Canada) or we will do it alone."[9] The United States hosted the 1994 FIFA World Cup and unsuccessfully bid for the 2022 World Cup, which was won by Qatar in 2010. On April 18, 2015, Brazilian legend Pelé stated that the United States should host the 2026 World Cup.[10]

In December 2016, Victor Montagliani, CONCACAF president announced for the first time a possibility of a joint bid between the United States, Canada, and Mexico to host the 2026 World Cup.[11]

On April 10, 2017, the three bodies announced their intent to submit a joint bid for the 2026 World Cup.[12]

Bid process

Bidding for the 2026 FIFA World Cup was postponed due to the 2015 FIFA corruption case and the subsequent resignation of Sepp Blatter,[13] then was restarted following the FIFA Council meeting on May 10, 2016, wherein the bidding process would consist of four phases:[14]

  • May 2016 – May 2017: a new strategy and consultation phase
  • June 2017 – Dec 2017: enhanced phases for bid preparation
  • March 2018 – June 2018: bid evaluation
  • June 2018: final decision[15]

With no rival bid having emerged since April 2017 the CONCACAF member federations of Canada, Mexico, and the United States sent a joint request to FIFA to hasten the bid process. Canada, Mexico, and the United States wanted FIFA to award the bid outside the traditional bidding process at the June 2018 FIFA Congress in Moscow if the CONCACAF-bid meets FIFA requirements.[16][17]

However the FIFA Council decided on May 8, 2017, that FIFA would have a full bidding procedure. In order to ensure continental rotation of hosting duties, only the member associations of CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, and the OFC were invited, as these continental confederations had not hosted the two previous World Cups.[18] A date of August 11, 2017, was set for submission of an intention to bid.[19]

FIFA soccer tournament hosting experiences

Together, Canada, Mexico, and the United States had hosted 14 FIFA events, which was the most of any trio of geographically connected nations.[20]

In addition, all three countries had hosted at least one Olympic soccer tournament: Canada played host in Montreal 1976, Mexico in Mexico City 1968, and the United States hosted thrice – in St. Louis 1904, Los Angeles 1984 and Atlanta 1996. The Atlanta Games were the first to include a women's tournament.

Bid committee

On July 6, 2017, a United Bid Committee was officially formed by the national federations of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, to kick off the bidding process to bring the 2026 World Cup to North America.[21][22][23][24][25]

Honorary chairman of the board

United bid committee board of directors

United bid committee executive team

  • John Kristick – executive director for the united bid committee
  • Jim Brown – managing director, technical operations
  • Peter Montopoli – Canada bid director
  • Yon De Luisa – Mexico bid director

Potential venues

On August 15, 2017, the United Bid Committee released a list of 49 existing, fully-functional stadiums in 44 metropolitan markets across the three nations to be considered for the official bid. Cities had to submit written proposals to the United Bid Committee by January 19, 2018, before being selected by the committee.[29] The United Bid Committee planned to include 20–25 venues in the official bid, which was sent to FIFA in March 2018. Stadiums had to have a capacity of at least 40,000 for group stage matches and at least 80,000 for the opening match and the final.[30]

On September 7, 2017, the United Bid Committee announced that a total of 41 cities (with 44 venues) had submitted bids marking their official declaration of interest to be included in the final bid.[31] Almost a month later, on October 4, 2017, the list of cities was cut down to 32 with 35 venues.[32] During U.S. Soccer's annual general meeting in Orlando in February 2018, Gulati revealed that the list of cities had been cut down to 26 with 26 venues.[33]

On March 14, 2018, Soldier Field in Chicago, U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, and BC Place in Vancouver all announced that they were dropping out as potential host cities. All three cities cited concerns over the financial transparency of being a host city and cited FIFA's unwillingness to negotiate financial details as reasons for their decisions; the bid committee announced the next day they had reduced the number of cities in the bid to 23.[34][35][36][37][38]

On July 6, 2021, Canada Soccer announced that Montreal had withdrawn its bid from the selection process, due to the Quebec provincial government withdrawing its support.[39] On April 14, 2022, more than four years after dropping out, BC Place in Vancouver was announced as a replacement for Montreal.[40] On April 21, 2022, Washington, D.C. announced that they were dropping out and merging their campaign with Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium.[41]

The official bid proposed the main opening match to be held in either Azteca Stadium in Mexico City or at the Rose Bowl in the Los Angeles area, that all three host countries' teams host their first matches on the first day of the tournament and that the final match be held at MetLife Stadium in the New York City area. The bid also proposed the two semifinal matches to be held at AT&T Stadium in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. All of the other cities in the American portion of the bid were considered for quarterfinal matches. The bid book proposal called for Mexico and Canada to each host seven group stage matches, two matches in the round of 32, and one in the round of 16.[42]

A † denotes stadium used for previous men's World Cup tournaments
A ‡ denotes retractable-roof or indoor stadium

Venues excluded since start of bidding process

Venues that were contacted but did not submit a bid

City Stadium Capacity Image
Canada Calgary, Alberta[38] McMahon Stadium 35,400
(expandable to 46,020)
United States Green Bay, Wisconsin[38] Lambeau Field 81,441
Canada Montreal, Quebec[38] Saputo Stadium 20,801
United States San Diego, California[38] Qualcomm Stadium 70,561
Canada Toronto, Ontario[38] Rogers Centre‡ 54,000

Venues that submitted bids but were rejected (1st round)

City Stadium Capacity Image
United States Birmingham, Alabama[38] Legion Field 71,594
United States Cleveland, Ohio[38] Huntington Bank Field 67,895
United States Indianapolis, Indiana[38] Lucas Oil Stadium‡ 62,421
(expandable to 70,000)
United States Jacksonville, Florida[38] TIAA Bank Field 69,132
(expandable to 82,000)
United States New Orleans, Louisiana[38] Caesars Superdome‡ 73,208
(expandable to 76,438)
Canada Ottawa, Ontario[38] TD Place Stadium 24,000
United States Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania[38] Acrisure Stadium 69,690
Canada Regina, Saskatchewan[38] Mosaic Stadium 33,350
(expandable to 40,000)
United States San Antonio, Texas[38] Alamodome‡ 64,000

Venues that submitted bids but were rejected (2nd round)

During the 2018 U.S. Soccer Annual General Meeting, Sunil Gulati announced that the following cities were not selected for the final hosting bid.[33]

City Stadium Capacity Image
United States Charlotte, North Carolina[38] Bank of America Stadium 75,525
United States Dallas, Texas[38] Cotton Bowl† 92,100
United States Detroit, Michigan[38] Ford Field‡ 65,000
(expandable to 70,000)
United States Las Vegas, Nevada[38] Allegiant Stadium‡
(Paradise, Nevada)		 72,000
United States Los Angeles, California[38] Memorial Coliseum 93,607
United States Phoenix, Arizona[38] State Farm Stadium‡
(Glendale, Arizona)		 63,400
(expandable to 78,600)
United States Salt Lake City, Utah[38] Rice–Eccles Stadium 53,609
United States Tampa, Florida[38] Raymond James Stadium 65,890
(expandable to 75,000)

Venues that withdrew voluntarily

City Stadium Capacity Image
United States Chicago, Illinois[38] Soldier Field† 61,500
United States Minneapolis, Minnesota[38] U.S. Bank Stadium‡ 66,655
(expandable to 73,000)
Canada Montreal, Quebec[39] Olympic Stadium‡ 61,004
(Bid book: 55,822)
(Expandable to 73,000)
United States Washington, D.C.[38] Northwest Stadium
(Landover, Maryland)		 62,000

Venues excluded from final list (June 2022)

City Stadium Capacity Image
United States Baltimore, Maryland[38] M&T Bank Stadium 71,006
(Bid book: 70,976)
United States Cincinnati, Ohio[38] Paycor Stadium 65,515
(Bid book: 67,402)
United States Denver, Colorado[38] Empower Field at Mile High 76,125
(Bid book: 77,595)
Canada Edmonton, Alberta[38] Commonwealth Stadium 56,302
(Bid book: 56,418)
United States Los Angeles, California[38] Rose Bowl
(Pasadena, California)†		 92,000
(Bid book: 88,432)
United States Nashville, Tennessee[38] Nissan Stadium 69,143
(Bid book: 69,722)
(expandable to 75,000)
United States Orlando, Florida[38] Camping World Stadium† 60,219
(Bid book: 65,000)
Rejected and uninterested venues:
: Venue declined to participate
: Venue withdrew voluntarily
: Venue submitted bid but was rejected (1st round)
: Venue submitted bid but was rejected (2nd round)
: Venue cut after final decision (June 2022)

Venues selected to host matches

Canada

City Stadium Capacity Image
Vancouver, British Columbia[43] BC Place‡ 54,000
Toronto, Ontario[38] BMO Field 30,000
(Expanding to 45,500 for tournament)
Canadian cities hosting matches

Mexico

City Stadium Capacity Image
Mexico City[38] Estadio Azteca† 87,523
Monterrey, Nuevo León[38] Estadio BBVA

(Guadalupe, Nuevo León)

 53,500
(Bid book: 53,460)
Guadalajara, Jalisco[38] Estadio Akron

(Zapopan, Jalisco)

 46,232
(Bid book: 48,071)
Mexican cities hosting matches

United States

City Stadium Capacity Image
New York/New Jersey[38] MetLife Stadium
(East Rutherford, New Jersey)		 82,500
(Bid book: 87,157)
Dallas, Texas[38] AT&T Stadium‡
(Arlington, Texas)		 80,000
(Bid book: 92,967)
(expandable to 105,000)
Kansas City, Missouri[38] Arrowhead Stadium 76,416
(Bid book: 76,640)
Houston, Texas[38] NRG Stadium‡ 72,220
Atlanta, Georgia[38] Mercedes-Benz Stadium‡ 71,000
(Bid book: 75,000)
(expandable to 83,000)
Los Angeles, California*[38][44] SoFi Stadium
(Inglewood, California)		 70,240
(expandable to 100,240)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[38] Lincoln Financial Field 69,796
(Bid book: 69,328)
Seattle, Washington[38] Lumen Field 69,000
(expandable to 72,000)
San Francisco Bay Area[38] Levi's Stadium
(Santa Clara, California)		 68,500
(Bid book: 70,909)
(expandable to 75,000)
Boston, Massachusetts[38] Gillette Stadium
(Foxborough, Massachusetts)		 65,878
(Bid book: 70,000)
Miami, Florida[38] Hard Rock Stadium
(Miami Gardens, Florida)		 64,767
(Bid book: 67,518)
* = Was not initially included in the bid book but was eventually considered.[44]

Additional host venue information

Canada

Mexico

United States

General facilities

Support

Football confederations

FIFA members

Public opinion

On October 24, 2017, a survey of adults in Canada, Mexico, and the United States showed a broad support for Canada–United States–Mexico bid to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup. It found that 77% of North American residents were in favor of hosting the first-ever 48-team FIFA World Cup, and 81% of respondents across the three countries agreed that hosting the tournament would be good for their specific country. Also, nearly six in 10 (57 percent) of those surveyed said they would be interested in attending FIFA World Cup matches if the games were played near where they live or work.[65]

U.S. House of Representatives

On April 20, 2018, Representatives Darin LaHood and fellow co-chairs of the Congressional Soccer Caucus Kathy Castor (FL-14), Don Bacon (NE-02), Ruben Kihuen (NV-04) introduced a resolution to recognize and support the efforts of the United Bid Committee to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the United States.[66] The U.S. House of Representatives adopted this resolution on April 25, 2018.[67]

Other government officials

Toronto city councilors Mark Grimes and Cesar Palacio supported the bid, as well as Mayor John Tory.[68] Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante also supported it.[69]

On March 13, 2018, Canadian Minister of Sport Kirsty Duncan announced in Ottawa that the Canadian federal government officially threw its support behind the North American bid for the 2026 World Cup, with the promise of up to $5 million in immediate help should the unified bid win.[70]

U.S. President Donald Trump,[71] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,[72] and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto[73] all supported the bid for the World Cup. Trump designated Jared Kushner, at the time head of the Office of American Innovation and senior advisor to the president, as point man for the White House.[74]

Marketing

The bid was branded "United 2026", the logo of the bid is a ball with the number 26 representing the year "2026" with the colors of the flags of Canada, Mexico, and the United States and the slogans were: "United As One" (Spanish: "Unidos Como Uno", French: "Unis Comme Un"). and "Football For All" (Spanish: "Fútbol Para Todos", French: "Football Pour Tous").[75]

Opinions

On December 28, 2017, during a sports business conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, FIFA president Gianni Infantino considered the United bid to be a positive message.[76]

Controversies

U.S. President Donald Trump's executive orders regarding immigration from certain Muslim-majority countries implemented during his first term in 2017 was touted as a potential risk, with Infantino saying, "Any team, including the supporters and officials of that team, who qualify for a World Cup need to have access to the country, otherwise there is no World Cup."[77] In response, the Trump administration sent letters to FIFA that read, in part, that Trump was "confident" that "all eligible athletes, officials and fans from all countries around the world would be able to enter the United States without discrimination."[78] In 2018, Trump then warned the countries that intended to support the Morocco bid to host the 2026 World Cup, tweeting: "The US has put together a STRONG bid w/ Canada & Mexico for the 2026 World Cup. It would be a shame if countries that we always support were to lobby against the U.S. bid. Why should we be supporting these countries when they don't support us (including at the United Nations)?"[79] In January 2021, the travel ban was reversed by his successor Joe Biden.[80]

Both Trump administrations were met with a wave of concern from co-hosts Canada and Mexico, particularly about his messaging regarding tariffs on both countries as well as the sovereignty of Canada. In addition, restrictions on immigration and a reduced federal workforce created concerns that fans may not be able to get their visas in time for the event,[81][82] as the wait for a visa interview in some countries was roughly around a year on average, with one travel report from the U.S. Travel Association claiming the U.S. was not even prepared to host one.[83][84][85] In June 2025, the second Trump administration reinstated a travel ban affecting citizens from multiple countries, citing national security concerns.[86] The ban, which was later expanded in December, prohibited the issuance of new immigrant and non-immigrant visas for citizens of 39 affected countries, including those of teams that qualified for the World Cup: Haiti, Iran, Ivory Coast, and Senegal. The proclamation included an exemption for any athlete or member of an athletic team, including coaches, persons performing a necessary support role, and immediate relatives, traveling for the World Cup, Olympics, or other major sporting events as determined by the Secretary of State.[87][88]

This exemption ensured that national teams' players, coaches, and staff from those designated countries would be permitted to enter the United States for the competition, but the US State Department confirmed that ordinary citizens of the four countries were not covered by this exemption, making them ineligible for visa issuance to attend the matches. While fans were permitted to submit visa applications with the promise of priority if they provided proof of tickets, the department noted that issuance would be unlikely, barring rare "national interest" waivers. However, this restriction could be circumvented if a fan was a valid visa holder, a permanent resident, or a dual national who applied using a passport not subject to the ban. In such cases, applicants could still be eligible to enter or apply for entry, provided they satisfied all other immigration and security requirements.[89][90][91]

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