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December 9 – Having held the draw for the group stage of the expanded 32-team Membership World Cup, FIFA has now launched the venues, dates and kick-off instances for the 63 matches.
Matches can be performed throughout 12 stadiums, six of that are the houses of MLS golf equipment.
The large winners are New York/New Jersey’s Met Life Stadium that can host 9 matches, together with each semi-finals and the ultimate, Miami’s exhausting Rock Stadium that can host eight matches, and Philadelphia’s Lincoln Monetary Discipline, additionally with eight matches.
The event will now open with a stand-alone fixture, with ‘advertising qualifier’ Inter Miami CF setting the event in movement on the 65,500-seat Onerous Rock Stadium towards Egypt’s Al Ahly on June 14.
The ultimate can be performed on the Met Life on July 14.
Maybe the largest shock of the FIFA scheduling is that having agreed with Concacaf that the CWC would stick with the East coast and the Gold Cup to the West coast, FIFA has scheduled 12 video games on the west coast. Concacaf are taking part in their Gold Cup at precisely the identical time because the Membership World Cup with FIFA’s 12 matches being scheduled immediately towards them.
Six video games can be performed on the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Los Angeles, and 6 on the Lumen Discipline in Seattle. Seattle Sounders have certified for the CWC whereas Lumen Discipline is a 2026 World Cup venue. Nonetheless, the Rose Bowl has neither an LA crew certified or in residence, neither is the venue on the schedule for 2026.
The LA venue is the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Los Angeles, the place Concacaf can be internet hosting matches.
Teams B and E will bounce between LA and Seattle with the large groups being PSG, Athletico Madrid and Inter Milan. South Individuals Botafogo and River Plate present Brazilian and Argentine curiosity whereas FIFA can be hoping Monterey will excite the Mexican Individuals – and hoping Concacaf don’t schedule Mexico nationwide crew video games immediately towards them.
The schedule will see golf equipment play group video games each fourth day with solely six groups having the journey break luxurious of taking part in in the identical stadium in the identical metropolis for 2 consecutive matches.
Actual Madrid, serial winners of the Membership World Cup, will make a South to North journey up the east coast, beginning in Miami, transferring to Charlotte and finishing their group stage in Philadelphia.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino mentioned: “The paths for the 32 groups have been set and we now know at what time and the place, amongst 12 top-class stadiums, we are going to benefit from the 48 thrilling group stage clashes. Along with one other 15 matches within the knockout stage, this match schedule units 63 dates within the diary of each soccer fan – these residing within the US, touring from overseas to those stunning cities to help their golf equipment, or following reside and without spending a dime from each nook of the world by way of DAZN and FIFA+.
“This match schedule is far more than a listing of thrilling fixtures involving the most effective golf equipment on the earth – it exhibits that membership soccer can, and can be, really international. Let’s take it to the world.”
Tickets for the 48 group stage matches will open on December 19, completely on Fifa.com/tickets.
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