{"id":83244,"date":"2025-11-20T05:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/guadalajara-and-monterrey-playoff-venues-for-world-cup-2026-fifa-confirms-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:17:11","slug":"guadalajara-and-monterrey-playoff-venues-for-world-cup-2026-fifa-confirms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/guadalajara-and-monterrey-playoff-venues-for-world-cup-2026-fifa-confirms-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Guadalajara and Monterrey playoff venues for World Cup 2026: FIFA confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guadalajara and Monterrey: Host Cities for the Intercontinental Playoff for the 2026 World Cup<\/h2>\n\n\nFIFA announced this Wednesday that the Mexican cities of Guadalajara and Monterrey will be the venues for the intercontinental playoffs tournament for the 2026 World Cup.\n\nThe tournament, which will begin on March 23, will feature the participation of six teams from five confederations. These teams will compete for two spots for 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=\"\"><figcaption>Estadio Jalisco, sede de partidos de la Copa del Mundo en 1970 y 1986.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThe six teams that will participate 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 be the scene of three group stage matches and a round of sixteen match.\n\nThe other Mexican stadium that will host World Cup matches will be the renovated Azteca stadium.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guadalajara and Monterrey: Host Cities for the Intercontinental Playoff for the 2026 World Cup FIFA announced this Wednesday that the Mexican cities of Guadalajara and Monterrey will be the venues for the intercontinental playoffs tournament for the 2026 World Cup. The tournament, which will begin on March 23, will feature the participation of six teams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[957,3876,4186,1215],"class_list":{"0":"post-83244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-fifa","9":"tag-guadalajara","10":"tag-monterrey","11":"tag-world-cup-2026"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83244","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=83244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}