FIFA announces that Canada has officially qualified for 2026 World Cup
Canada’s males’s nationwide soccer group has formally certified for the boys’s World Cup 2026, FIFA introduced in a launch on Tuesday.
Canada is one in every of three groups set to host the 2026 World Cup, splitting internet hosting duties with each Mexico and the United States. Both Mexico and the U.S. have additionally been granted computerized berths on account of internet hosting the occasion.
Host international locations being granted computerized berths is widespread observe for the Cup, nevertheless, that is the primary time three international locations have ever hosted the occasion directly. Japan and South Korea co-hosted in 2002 and had been each given computerized exemptions into the match.
The Canadian males certified for simply the second World Cup in group historical past in 2022, and the primary in over 30 years with their solely different look coming again in 1986.
Canada misplaced all three of its sport on the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, however there isn’t a doubt the boys’s group made unimaginable strides beneath supervisor John Herdman, together with the first-ever Canadian aim scored at a males’s World Cup by famous person Alphonso Davies.
The 2026 World Cup can be hosted by 16 cities throughout the three international locations, together with Toronto and Vancouver. The worldly occasion is scheduled to begin on Jun. 3, 2026 and conclude on Jul. 8, 2026.
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