The 2026 FIFA World Cup’s final will be held at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, FIFA announced Sunday.
While in competition with the AT&T Stadium inn Arlington, Tex., the home of the Giants and Jets promised to remove 1,740 seats to accommodate a wider field for the beautiful game, the Daily News previously reported.
MetLife Stadium would re-add the vacated seats following the World Cup as parts of removable sections.
“In many ways, we’ve got the whole world right in our backyard with more than 600 languages and dialects spoken across our region,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said in a statement. “There is nowhere that better captures the breadth and diversity of the world’s greatest game than New York City and our great Garden State.”
The final match will be held on July 19, 2026 in the East Rutherford, N.J., stadium.
“As mayor of the most diverse city in the United States, a city filled with soccer fans, we cannot wait to welcome the world for the 2026 FIFA World Cup,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a joint statement with Murphy.
The massive tournament spans 16 locations across the U.S., Canada and Mexico, with Dallas hosting nine matches.
The event will officially kick off on June 11, 2026 in Mexico City’s new, high-tech Estadio Azteca. The United States’s opening match with be held in Los Angeles on June 12, FIFA said in a post on X.
The bronze medal final will take place in Miami and the semi-final games will take place in Atlanta and Dallas, according to FIFA.
