2026 WC Bids

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Canada continues to plan on bid for 2026 World Cup


TORONTO — By the time 2026 rolls around, it will have been 32 years since the CONCACAF region hosted the FIFA World Cup, and according to reports published on Wednesday, the president of the Liga MX believes a joint US-Mexico bid might be just the thing to bring the World Cup back to this part of the globe.

www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2013/10/10/race-canada-continues-plan-bid-2026-world-cup


Mexico would team up with the USA to host 2026 World Cup tournament


Mexico is interested in joining forces with the USA to co-host a bid for the 2026 World Cup.

Liga MX president Decio de María, a former high-ranking executive of the Mexican soccer federation, made the statement at Wednesday's Leaders in Football Conference in London during a discussion about the future of the World Cup and the FIFA bidding process.

“Do it with some Mexican cities there,” de María reportedly told U.S. Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati when the topic of a US bid for the 2026 World Cup came up.

www.mlssoccer.com/sideline/news/article/2013/10/09/report-mexico-would-join-usa-host-future-world-cup-tournament-sideline

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Canadian Soccer Association says it will make a play to host 2026 World Cup

TORONTO – It’s official: Canada wants to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

And Canadian Soccer Association president Victor Montagliani publicly announced Thursday that he hopes hosting the “granddaddy of them all” can do for Canada what it did for the USA in the aftermath of the 1994 World Cup.

“We’ve already started our preliminary discussions with our FIFA partners and with CONCACAF,” Montagliani told reporters at a press conference unveiling the CSA’s new five-year strategic plan.

“The bid would not be in until 2018-ish, but the process has to start now, and the first process is you have to put up your hand and say, ‘This is something that’s required, that we want to do."

www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2014/01/23/canadian-soccer-association-says-it-will-make-play-host-2026-world-cup