Where Data Tells the Story
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The 2026 FIFA World Cup is described as a tournament shared between three nations.
However, the distribution of matches in FIFA’s official stadium records tells a more precise story.
According to FIFA records covering all 16 host stadiums and their match allocations, the United States hosts 78 of the tournament’s 104 matches. That is 75% of all World Cup games.
Canada hosts 13 matches across two venues. Mexico hosts 13 matches across three venues.
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Estadio Azteca is the only stadium in history to have hosted two World Cup finals:
Diego Maradona scored both the Hand of God and the Goal of the Century there in the same 1986 quarter-final.
The stadium has a FIFA-approved capacity of 83,000, the second-largest in the rankings.
The specific factors behind the Aztecs’ reduced match allocation.
For example, logistics, infrastructure, FIFA scheduling priorities, and the commercial weighting toward the US market all count for something.
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