The 2022 World Cup in Qatar kicks off in only five months, but the tournament’s organizer will look beyond it on Thursday — far beyond — when it names the host cities for the 2026 World Cup in North America.
The 2026 championship will be a multinational affair, hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada, which won the bidding for the event four years ago. But the choice of the cities that will get the matches rests with FIFA, global soccer’s governing body. FIFA, which once relied on local organizing committees to take on major planning responsibilities for the World Cup, took those back in house starting in 2026.