The U.S. males’s nationwide workforce will start their 2026 World Cup marketing campaign at SoFi Stadium within the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, which can mark their first World Cup sport on residence soil since 1994.
The match will function the kickoff of the World Cup’s slate within the U.S. on June 12, whereas the USMNT will play at Seattle’s Lumen Discipline on June 19 for his or her second group stage match. They return to Southern California to wrap up the group stage on June 25.
SoFi Stadium formally received the rights to host the USMNT through the competitors on Sunday, throughout FIFA’s present asserting the websites for the 2026 World Cup.
The World Cup returns to North America for the primary time since 1994, when the U.S. hosted and the nationwide workforce went to the spherical of 16 earlier than dropping to eventual champions Brazil. The USMNT hopes to make an announcement as a rising energy in males’s soccer at this event, and can little doubt goal to no less than match the run of the 1994 workforce, if not higher it.
The 2026 World Cup would be the first to have 48 groups, greater than the 32 that took half within the 2022 version of the event in Qatar. The competitors begins on June 11 at Mexico Metropolis’s Estadio Azteca, when co-hosts Mexico will play, and it finish on July 19 with the ultimate.
