{"id":82686,"date":"2025-11-19T19:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/guadalajara-and-monterrey-playoff-venues-for-2026-world-cup-fifa-confirms\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T19:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:08:16","slug":"guadalajara-and-monterrey-playoff-venues-for-2026-world-cup-fifa-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/guadalajara-and-monterrey-playoff-venues-for-2026-world-cup-fifa-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Guadalajara and Monterrey playoff venues for 2026 World Cup: FIFA confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Guadalajara and Monterrey: Luxury Venues for the 2026 World Cup Intercontinental Playoff<\/h2>\n\nFIFA announced this Wednesday that the Mexican cities of Guadalajara and Monterrey will host the intercontinental play-off tournament for the 2026 World Cup.\n\nThe tournament, which will begin on March 23, will feature the participation of six national teams from five confederations, who will compete for the last two tickets to next summer&#8217;s World Cup, which will be held in Mexico, the United States, and Canada.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>These iconic stadiums are the perfect settings for what promises to be an exciting event, full of passion, drama, and excitement.<\/p><cite>Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe stadiums in Guadalajara and Monterrey will also be venues for World Cup matches.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1119%2Fr1577816_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Estadio Jalisco\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nThe Jalisco Stadium has hosted World Cup matches in 1970 and 1986.\n\nThe six participating teams are: Iraq, Congo, Jamaica, Suriname, Bolivia and New Caledonia. The draw will take place on Thursday in Zurich, and the match schedule will be announced later.\n\nIn next year&#8217;s World Cup, the Guadalajara stadium will host four group stage matches, while the Monterrey stadium will host three group stage matches and a round of sixteen match.\n\nThe other Mexican stadium that will host the World Cup is the recently renovated Azteca stadium.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guadalajara and Monterrey: Luxury Venues for the 2026 World Cup Intercontinental Playoff FIFA announced this Wednesday that the Mexican cities of Guadalajara and Monterrey will host the intercontinental play-off tournament for the 2026 World Cup. The tournament, which will begin on March 23, will feature the participation of six national teams from five confederations, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3876,4186,405,1215],"class_list":{"0":"post-82686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-guadalajara","9":"tag-monterrey","10":"tag-playoff","11":"tag-world-cup-2026"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}