{"id":359371,"date":"2026-06-13T15:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359371\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:05:18","slug":"every-stadium-that-will-host-2026-world-cup-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359371\/","title":{"rendered":"Every stadium that will host 2026 World Cup matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/world-cup-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 World Cup<\/a>, the largest ever, will be played in three countries and 16 stadiums, organized by geography, not national borders. <\/p>\n<p>Seven of the 11 U.S. venues \u2014 all but Kansas City, Philadelphia, Santa Clara and Miami \u2014 plus Vancouver normally have artificial-turf fields. <\/p>\n<p>So for the World Cup, which FIFA mandates must be played on grass, those surfaces underwent multi-million-dollar transformations, with state-of-the-art fields \u2014 each with its own root system and irrigation methods \u2014 rolled out across the plastic turf. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, stadiums that have corporate names not affiliated with FIFA sponsors \u2014 <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/sofi-stadium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SoFi Stadium<\/a>, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, etc. \u2014 will use generic names such as Los Angeles Stadium and Atlanta Stadium during the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 World Cup, the largest ever, will be played in three countries and 16 stadiums, organized by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146275,146276,146273,9512,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,1540,146272,146274,9330,197,5712,21670,36900,31561,47661],"class_list":["post-359371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-artificial-turf-field","tag-corporate-name","tag-fifa-sponsor","tag-kansas-city","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-miami","tag-multi-million-dollar-transformation","tag-own-root-system","tag-philadelphia","tag-santa-clara","tag-sofi-stadium","tag-stadium","tag-surface","tag-vancouver","tag-world-cup-match"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}