MetLife Stadium in New Jersey will host the 2026 FIFA World Cup final.

From American football to football. MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, the stadium where the New York Giants and New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL) play their home games. will host the 2026 FIFA World Cup finalThis is stated in a statement by the organization headed by Gianni Infantino.

The finals of the tournament, organized by the United States, Mexico and Canada, will take place on July 16 at Giants and Jets Stadium. The next World Cup will be celebrated 104 matchesplayed in sixteen host cities in three countries.

World football’s governing body also confirmed this from Zurich, the city where FIFA is based. Estadio Azteca in Mexico City will host the opening match on June 11, 2026.. The semi-finals will be held in Dallas (the most common venue with nine games) and Atlanta (USA).

The 2026 World Cup, which will return to North America 32 years later, there will be a new format, which features 48 teams divided into twelve groups of four. The first two national teams in each group, as well as the eight best third teams, will advance to the round of 16.

The opening match of the 2026 World Cup will take place at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.

“The revised format ensures that all teams play a minimum of three matches while ensuring balanced rest time between competing teams.”

In mid-March 2023, FIFA detailed this in a statement explaining the format change, which would see the tournament feature 24 more matches than originally planned.

It’s not just the World Cup that has changed its format. On 18 December, the FIFA Council announced the Intercontinental Cup, a new annual club competition. changed the Club World Cup, expanding it to 32 teams starting in 2025.

The tournament will take place from June 15 to July 13, 2025 in the United States, and will be held every four years from then on in the lead-up to the World Cup. In this sense, the Club World Cup will replace the old Confederations Cup, which awarded the champion teams of all confederations. Now he is being replaced by a world champion, but a club one.

World football’s governing body has nearly doubled its budget for the 2023-2026 cycle. up to 11,000 million euros

. The cycle, which will culminate with the 2026 World Cup, comes after the organization reported record revenues of $7.5 billion in the last cycle, which began in 2018 and ended with the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.