Here are the 2026 World Cup host cities
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Sports Here are the 2026 World Cup host cities Updated on: June 16, 2022 / 6:35 PM EDT / CBS/AP Add CBS News on Google Cities across North America have been vying to host the World Cup after FIFA announced Canada, Mexico and the U.S. would co-host the 2026 games. On Thursday, the international soccer organization named the 16 cities chosen. MUHARRAQ, BAHRAIN - JUNE 04: The World Cup Trophy is brought to Arad Castle within the 2022 FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour by former Brazilian football player Juliano Belletti in Muharraq, Bahrain on June 04, 2022. Ayman Yaqoob/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Eleven U.S. cities received the honor: Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New York/New Jersey, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle.Baltimore, Cincinnati, Denver, Nashville, and Orlando were left out.In Canada, Toronto and Vancouver will host games. Mexico's Guadalajara, Mexico City and Monterrey were also chosen.The U.S. selections included none of the nine stadiums used at the 1994 World Cup. The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, and Orlando's Camping World Stadium were the only ones remaining in contention, and they were among the sites dropped in the final round.New stadiums were selected in five areas used in 1994. AT&T Stadium in Texas replaced Dallas' Cotton Bowl; SoFi Stadium in Inglewood took over for Pasadena's Rose Bowl; and Levi's Stadium instead of Stanford Stadium.Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, replaced torn-down stadiums that were adjacent, Giants Stadium and Foxboro Stadium. Orlando's Camping World was dropped among existing 1994 venues. The Detroit area, where the old Pontiac Silverdome hosted games, was cut in 2018 and Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium was dropped after FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, dropped out. Washington's RFK Stadium was used in 1994.Chicago, which hosted the 1994 opener at Solider Field, refused to bid, citing FIFA's economi...





