The details of the 2026 World Cup table were announced on Saturday afternoon (6). After the draw held the day before, FIFA (International Football Federation) released the times and locations of the 72 matches in the group stage of the competition, which will take place in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
The Brazilian team will be concentrated on the east coast of the United States. If they confirm their favoritism and advance to first place in their bracket, they will also play all their matches in the United States in the knockout stage, the country that will host most of the clashes and all of them from the quarter-finals onwards.
Carlo Ancelotti’s team will start their campaign on June 13th, a Saturday, at 7pm (Brasília time) at the MetLife Stadium, against Morocco. The stadium is located in the city of East Rutherford, in the metropolitan area of New York and New Jersey and will also be the stage for the grand final, scheduled for July 19th.
Afterwards, the yellow-green team goes to Philadelphia, where they will face Haiti on the 19th, a Friday, at 10pm (Brasília time), at Lincoln Financial Field. And it will end its participation in Group C on the 24th, a Wednesday, against Scotland, at the Hard Rock Stadium, at 7pm (Brasília time), in Miami Gardens, on the outskirts of Miami.
If Brazil were to take the lead in the group, their path to the possible final would have stops in Houston (June 29), East Rutherford (July 5), Miami Gardens (July 11) and Atlanta (July 15).
Once the design of the table has been defined, coach Ancelotti, coordinator Rodrigo Caetano and other members of the CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation) will travel across the United States visiting training centers. Inspections will begin this Sunday (7).
“We will start a new visit to the FIFA base camps, we have our team for that. Along with the mister [Ancelotti]let’s walk through the possibilities. We will be very calm, we will have very technical decision-making, also considering the weather condition, but it is not just this issue that will be involved in our decision-making”, stated Caetano.
