Talk:2026 FIFA World Cup

New venues table and gallery


I'd like to present this concept that may be an acceptable compromise between editors who are keen on preserving a gallery of photographs of all the venues, and editors such as myself who'd rather an accessible table with clear rows and columns of sortable data. I was recently made aware of the "sildeshow" gallery mode which presents images in a carousel. Here, I've applied such a gallery in a way that compliments a table of host cities, venues, locations, and capacities. It significantly reduces the size of the section, while making the information easier to parse and the photographs more legible. Thoughts? — AFC Vixen 🦊 13:26, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Training sites
FIFA released possible training sites and hotels yesterday, so wondering if we could add them in.

San Francisco Bay Area venue
The sources that I've reviewed, included the FIFA announcement, refer to the Levi's Stadium location as "San Francisco Bay Area", and this article uses that term where it fits. Where it doesn't fit, the article uses "San Francisco". Where the term needs to be shortened, I think the article should use either Santa Clara or San Jose, which is the closest big city to the stadium. Rks13 (talk) 15:01, 20 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Well San Francisco is more well known than San Jose even if the Earthquakes play in the latter. We really use the more well known places. El Rata Loco (talk) 21:21, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I understand and I disagree. Part of the reason that San Francisco is better known is that articles like this reinforce the idea that San Francisco is the only noteworthy city in the Bay Area. Rks13 (talk) 03:44, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * If you can point to multiple reliable sources that are presently referring to the area as Santa Clara or San Jose, then the change can be made. Otherwise, we will retain the name San Francisco. — Jkudlick &#x2693; (talk) 16:59, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Why? Can you point to a reliable source that refers to Santa Clara as "San Francisco"? The FIFA site does not, it refers to it as "San Francisco Bay Area"? Rks13 (talk) 20:43, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Why do you need to present sources to justify your requested change? Because you are the one requesting the change, and you have been around long enough to understand that.
 * Seven venues are actually located within their respective named cities (Miami Gardens is a separate legal entity from Miami but SoDo and Exhibition City are districts within Seattle and Toronto, respectively), but every other venue is referred to as the most recognizable city near that venue. If we change the shortened "San Francisco" to Santa Clara, should we then change New York/New Jersey to East Rutherford, Dallas as Arlington, Los Angeles as Inglewood, etc.? The reason we don't is because, at present, all reliable sources refer to the locations by the names designated by FIFA. — Jkudlick &#x2693; (talk) 21:37, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Who do 1st Play ?
As 1st Places can play up to 5 3rd Place teams and since 8 teams can qualify, therefore the chances 2 or all 5 teams in 3rd teams entering into last 32, that we have a chart/table to say this team will play that team; 3rd Places of A B C D F could all qualify, so who would play 1st E, C D and F also can face I alongside G and H, who do they face. Jamestwice. Jamestwice (talk) 15:08, 24 June 2024 (UTC)


 * That will be added to the article if/when FIFA decides to publish it. There are 495 possible combinations of third-place teams that will advance to the group round, so the table will likely be very long. — Jkudlick &#x2693; (talk) 15:52, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * What I mean is you could have winners going down and third place going across, with 1 2,1 3,2,1 4,3,2,1 5,4,3,2,1
 * Jamestwice Jamestwice (talk) 15:57, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Until FIFA publishes the third-place table, any tables created by editors would have to be removed as original research. Even then, we should probably just provide a link to the table since it would likely contain 495 entries (see the math below). — Jkudlick &#x2693; (talk) 17:14, 4 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Agree, wait until FIFA publish how this will work. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:54, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * And I imagine at some point, FIFA will publish a table for this, a bit like the one for the current Euro 2024: . At that point, we could point out there is a table, but copying the detail of it would be way too much detail (the UEFA Euro one has 15 combinations, the FIFA World Cup one would have lots more as there's more groups). Joseph2302 (talk) 06:41, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I know we have duplicated the table for 24-team tournaments in the past, e.g. the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, because there are only 15 possible combinations of advancing 3rd-place teams ($_{6}C{_4} = \tfrac{6!}{4!2!} = \tfrac{6*5*4!}{2*1*4!} = 3*5 = 15$). I absolutely agree that duplicating the table for this tournament would be unwieldy at best since there are 495 possible combinations of advancing 3rd-place teams ($_{12}C{_8} = \tfrac{12!}{8!4!} = \tfrac{12*11*10*9*8!}{4*3*2*1*8!} = 11*5*9 = 495$) and that a reference to the published table should suffice. — Jkudlick &#x2693; (talk) 15:09, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Table or Charts
This what I meant on who go first https://1drv.ms/w/c/2445ff2e99b133ed/EQKEnckBab5BgSj7gCajUdcBR2XTwudSmPDP3CC-BdSiNw?e=dGYcbh Jamestwice Jamestwice (talk) 11:16, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on July 6 2024
In the 4th paragraph of the Venues section, please update FedExField to Commanders Field, the stadium of Washington D.C. 189.133.124.30 (talk) 06:02, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
 * ❌ While your reference does support that FedEx has dropped the naming rights, it does not state what the stadium will be called in the meantime. — Jkudlick &#x2693; (talk) 12:40, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

The training sites
New info please Josedanielcardona16 (talk) 16:52, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * ❌ It's not clear what you're requesting. 1995hoo (talk) 16:54, 18 July 2024 (UTC)