World Cup 2026: Canada to open tournament in Toronto | CityNews Calgary

Canada will play its opening 2026 World Cup group match in Toronto on June 12, whereas the lads’s different two video games will happen in Vancouver on June 18 and June 24. The announcement by FIFA was made on Sunday afternoon.

Both Canadian cities will host 5 World Cup video games every within the 104-game occasion.

Mexico City will host the 48-team event’s opening sport on June 11, with the co-hosts going through an opponent to be decided at Azteca Stadium, whereas the U.S. will open its video games in Los Angeles, on June 12. Seattle may also a U.S. group sport.

Mexico’s different host cities are Guadalajara and Monterrey. Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Miami, New York/New Jersey, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area will host video games within the U.S.

The full schedule image must wait, given the opposite 45 competing groups have but to be determined with qualifying already underway in CONMEBOL (South America), the AFC (Asia) and CAF (Africa). Qualifying in CONCACAF, which covers North and Central America and the Caribbean, begins in March.

CONCACAF might ship as many as eight groups to the expanded event whose draw is scheduled for early December 2025.

There will likely be 12 teams of 4 groups within the first spherical, with the highest two from every group plus the eight finest third-placed sides transferring into the knockout spherical of 32.

—With recordsdata from The Canadian Press