Team camp options added for World Cup 26

Article posted by Coliseum, April 25^th, 2025

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Participants in the FIFA World Cup 2026™ have more potential Team Base Camps to choose from as they look for a “home away from home” during the tournament.

Inside FIFA said 14 new options have been added for qualified and aspiring national teams to consider as possible options, with more choices to come online throughout 2025 ahead of the tournament’s Final Draw.

A Team Base Camp is a training site and accommodation pairing that will serve as the primary base for teams during the group stage, where they will train, rest and prepare for their matches.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup™, marketed as the FIFA World Cup 26™, will be the 23^rd FIFA World Cup™, the quadrennial international men’s soccer championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA.

The tournament will take place from June 11^th-July 19^th, 2026. It will be jointly hosted by 16 Cities in three North American countries and the majority of the matches will take place in the United States while Canada and Mexico will host selected matches.

The tournament will be the first hosted by three nations and the first North American World Cup since 1994.

FIFA said that following the release of the first and second editions in June and November 2024 respectively, the latest update sees 14 new Team Base Camp options come online.

These include three in FIFA World Cup 26™ Host Cities and 11 in cities outside of – yet still geographically connected to – the locations where matches at the historic tournament will be played.

In FIFA World Cup™ Host Cities, options have been added in Guadalajara (Mexico) as well as Dallas – Mansfield and New York New Jersey (United States).

Meanwhile, the vast footprint of the inclusive event has been expanded with the addition of options in Querétaro and Torreón in Mexico, plus Boca Raton, Greenbrier County, Myrtle Beach, Oklahoma City (2), Portland, Santa Barbara (2) and State College in the United States.

The latest update to the Team Base Camp brochure brings the total number of options for qualified and aspiring national teams to consider as the build-up to the first-ever 48 nation FIFA World Cup continues to 62.

The Final Draw for the competition is anticipated to be staged in December 2025.

This will reveal the geographic zones in which teams will play their group matches, further guiding their decisions regarding their respective Team Base Camp locations.

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