Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey are among the headquarters of the World Cup 2026 which will be jointly organized United States, Mexico and Canadaannounced this Thursday the FIFA. These cities were the three candidates proposed in Mexico and all of them went on to the final FIFA selection.
The next World Cup will be the first to have 48 teams instead of the current 32. The United States will take on the majority of the tournament and will host 11 of the 16 total venues: Seattle, San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Boston, Philadelphia, Miami, and New York/New Jersey. On the part of Canada, Vancouver and Toronto were the chosen ones
Outside the list were the other candidates who had presented themselves to host: Edmonton in Canada and Cincinnati, Denver, Nashville, Orlando y Baltimore/Washington D.C. en EE.UU.
For Mexico it will be the third time that the FIFA World Cup has landed in their country after the 1970 and 1986 tournaments, while the United States will repeat as organizer after the 1994 edition. Canada, on the other hand, will debut as the organizing country although in 2015 it hosted the FIFA Women’s World Cup.
The one in 2026 will be the first World Cup that is organized by three countries jointly.
