The 2026 World Cup is coming to Canada, but on Thursday we will find out exactly where.
FIFA will announce the host cities of the first 48-team World Cup, co-hosted by Canada, the United States and Mexico, in a televised event from New York City.
You can watch the announcement of the host cities of the FIFA World Cup 2026 LIVE at 17:00 and / 14:00 pm on TSN1 / 5, streaming on TSN Direct and on TSN.ca.
With the field expanded, the 2026 World Cup will feature a total of 80 matches, compared to the 64 that will be played in Qatar 2022 this fall. Sixty of these games will be played in the United States, including everything from the quarterfinals onwards. The remaining 20 games will be played in Canadian and Mexican venues.
The three Canadian cities competing for the games are Vancouver, Edmonton and Toronto with BC Place, Commonwealth Stadium and BMO Field as possible venues. The Mexico Games are likely to be awarded in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey.
With fewer cities offering games in Canada and Mexico, only one or two cities are expected to be lost. The same cannot be said of the US, where there are still 17 cities in competition. Only 10 to 12 U.S. cities are expected to host games. The cities that offer games in the United States are Atlanta, Baltimore / Washington, DC, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York (nearby Meadowlands, NJ), Orlando, Philadelphia , San Francisco and Seattle.
The 2026 World Cup will be the third to be played in North America and the first since the United States in 1994. The 1986 World Cup, Canada’s only appearance at the four-year event before 2022, was held. celebrate in Mexico.