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2026 FIFA World Cup venues are.....
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John Price
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Sucks that Denver didn't get in, as well as Chicago. WC at soldier field would have been nice.
Toronto in!
Toronto in!
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Biggest upset is Boston over DC / Baltimore. Just means I have to go 2 hours up north to get my WC fix 4 years from now. 
BKIslandersFan
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Only 2 games in pool play now, it's probably Mexico's 2 games and that's it.
EDIT: Never mind, they have 3
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Over which City would they have replaced?
Gillette getting it isn’t too shocking. Though with nfl stadiums they are in the outskirts more than the city given the amount of parking stalls required.
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Wondering if it'll be worth it to try to rent out my house during the world cup games in dallas.
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BKIslandersFan
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varsaku
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I knew people who would do that when the super bowl would come into town and would make a good chunk of change.
PCSPounder
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Crappy, or just more realistic? I’ve never been in BMO, please expand on your comment.
If you ever look at Providence Park in Portland, especially the old 1920’s stand on an off day, you would ask what the frack MLS was thinking. It’s what you put in it that matters.
A baseball stadium needs to have an openness, needs bells and whistles, and recognizes that fans will want to walk around for an inning or two. An NFL stadium needs to make sure the concourses and restrooms are huge enough for halftime. An arena kind of cleaves toward the NFL mindset, but begs some flexibility. A soccer stadium should be the equivalent of a dive bar.
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Jussi
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Easy enough for you to Google and find out. All nfl ones so they smallest is Seattle at like 67/68k. Think every other one is over 70k.
Toronto is the smallest as it stands now.
| Country | City | Stadium | Capacity | Distance to city center (mi) |
| Canada | Toronto | BMO Field | 45,500 | 2.9 |
| Canada | Vancouver | BC Place | 54,500 | 1.7 |
| Mexico | Mexico City | Estadio Azteca | 87,523 | 10 |
| Mexico | Monterrey | Estadio BBVA | 53,500 | 5.1 |
| Mexico | Guadalajara | Estadio Akron | 49,850 | 11 |
| USA | Boston | Gilette Stadium | 65,878 | 27 |
| USA | NY/NJ | MetLife Stadium | 82,500 | 11 |
| USA | Philadelphia | Lincoln Financial Field | 69,796 | 3.9 |
| USA | Atlanta | Mercedes-Benz Stadium | 71,000 | 0.9 |
| USA | Miami | Hard Rock Stadium | 64,767 | 14 |
| USA | Houston | NRG Stadium | 72,220 | 9.3 |
| USA | Dallas | AT&T Stadium | 80,000 | 19 |
| USA | Kansas City | Arrowhead Stadium | 76,416 | 12 |
| USA | Los Angeles | SoFi Stadium | 70,240 | 12 |
| USA | SF/Bay Area | Levi's Stadium | 68,500 | 44 |
| USA | Seattle | Lumen Field | 69,000 | 0.8 |
2026 FIFA World Cup - Wikipedia
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BMO Field in a Frankenstadium not altogether unlike those mid-sized stadiums we see in England, but with none of the charm. Those stadiums are appear to be tucked seemlessly into neighbourhoods while BMO is practically on an inland not near any restaurants, real neighbourhoods, etc.
Two of the roofs are far too high above their respective grandstands creating a cavernous feel creating a lack of intimacy. The stadium is practically wide open at one end further exacerbating this feeling. There is also no jacket on the stadium, giving it a cheap feel. Most of the seats are a cheap, flimsy plastic, like bucket seats, and they are rather prone to breaking easily.
When you look at the stadiums that have been built around MLS over the past 10 years or so, BMO Field pales in comparison.
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Near the end of the TV presentation of the host cities, Gianni Infantino kind of looked like he cut into the script when he gave some assurances that fans traveling to this World Cup would not be put in the bind of overburdening their travel.
When FIFA awarded USA the 1994 World Cup in 1988, the only real competitor was Colombia. Thing is, Colombia was supposed to host 1986, won that bid, then had to give it up for whatever reasons. So, in several respects, FIFA only really could work with what we gave them. With 9 stadiums hosting, what they did at the time was base two of the round-robin groups in 3 cities. Oddly, the Rose Bowl and Stanford were joined by… Detroit. A lot of tickets were sold… it’s still the best attended WC ever. But FIFA isn’t into just selling tickets here, they want to grease the palms of their tour partners, they want lots of people to make the trip from other countries this time, and they learned from Brazil and Russia that maybe they overstretched. That will ratchet up the atmosphere many fold, if they can pull that off.
On another hand (and make sure you have at least 4 hands for this exercise), there are reasons this isn’t a USA-only bid. I suspect this is a joint bid because we’d otherwise have a “Mexican invasion” situation, politics in the US are dodgy, so as with Colombia, Mexico is kind of the insurance policy. It does make the travel THAT much worse.
So the signal is that FIFA, who had essentially stopped assigning their qualifying groups to specific cities, will get back into that business.
I think, therefore, that there’s no Cincinnati because there’s no Chicago.
I think the Vancouver bid was ”revived” (hello, Seattle) because Soccer Canada was told somewhere along the line that Edmonton wasn’t a realistic option and (noting that Montreal bailed) you’ll end up with one Canadian city otherwise.
I don’t think Houston would have really been an option without Dallas offering up Jerry World for a final, and FIFA could very well do that.
Every US market involved has an MLS team in or near it. Baltimore was probably a nonstarter once it was clear Washington was out.
Just keep in mind that FIFA has moved a WC before, and can do so again.
