Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta will play host to one of many 2 semifinals of the 2026 FIFA World Cup on July 15, 2026, soccer’s governing physique introduced throughout a televised occasion on Sunday.
Atlanta realized it’d be a World Cup host metropolis in June 2022, the most important occasion but for a area that has discovered itself squarely on the world soccer map. On prime of U.S. Soccer shifting its headquarters to the Atlanta space, Mercedes-Benz Stadium will host Argentina within the Copa América opening match on June 20, whereas the USA males’s nationwide crew will host Uruguay within the match on July 1. The U.S. ladies’s nationwide crew will play in a SheBelieves Cup semifinal towards Japan on April 6 with Canada and Brazil following. That’s to not point out the potential of Mercedes-Benz Stadium internet hosting matches throughout subsequent yr’s FIFA Membership World Cup and — ought to the USA and Mexico’s twin bid find yourself being chosen — the 2027 Girls’s World Cup.
Together with a semifinal, Atlanta will host 5 group-stage matches at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on June 15, 18, 21, 24, and 27, together with a Spherical of 32 match on July 1 and a Spherical of 16 match on July 7.
As for the opposite main matches all through the match, the legendary Estadio Azteca in Mexico Metropolis will play host to the opener on June 11. AT&T Stadium in Dallas/Fort Value will host the opposite semifinal a day earlier than Atlanta does on July 14. The ultimate can be held on July 19, 2026, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
