MetLife Stadium, house of the NFL’s New York Giants and Jets, would be the web site of the 2025 Membership World Cup last in July 2025, FIFA introduced on Saturday.
FIFA additionally revealed the 11 different stadiums that can be used for the 32-team match.
The Membership World Cup, which can start on June 15, 2025, will see video games performed at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Charlotte’s Financial institution of America Stadium, Cincinnati’s TQL Stadium, Los Angeles’ Rose Bowl Stadium, Miami’s Onerous Rock Stadium, Nashville’s GEODIS Park, Orlando’s Tenting World Stadium and Inter&Co Stadium, Philadelphia’s Lincoln Monetary Discipline, Seattle’s Lumen Discipline, and Washington D.C.’s Audi Discipline main as much as the ultimate on July 13, 2025.
5 of the stadiums — MetLife Stadium, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Lincoln Monetary Discipline, Lumen Discipline, Onerous Rock Stadium — may also host video games through the 2026 World Cup, which can happen in the US, Canada and Mexico.
The 2025 Membership World Cup will function a brand new 32-team format that may see 12 groups from Europe, six from South America, 4 from Asia, 4 from Africa, 4 from North and Central America and the Caribbean, one from Oceania, and one other workforce from the host nation, the U.S.
Two extra groups — one from the U.S. and one from South America — are nonetheless to qualify.
Eight teams of 4 can be drawn with every workforce taking part in three matches through the group stage. The highest two groups from every group will transfer on to the knockout portion of the match.
The draw can be held in December.
The timing of the 2025 Membership World Cup has introduced criticism, with FIFPRO, the worldwide gamers’ union, saying in December that the occasion “will undercut the remaining and restoration time of those gamers on the finish of the 2024-25 season” and that FIFA’s determination “demonstrates a scarcity of consideration for the psychological and bodily well being of taking part gamers, in addition to a disregard for his or her private and household lives.”
2025 FIFA Membership World Cup certified groups
Europe: Atlético Madrid, Bayern Munich, Benfica, Borussia Dortmund, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Juventus, Manchester Metropolis, Paris Saint-Germain, Porto, Actual Madrid, Purple Bull Salzburg
South America: Boca Juniors, Flamengo, Fluminense, Palmeiras, River Plate
North and Central America and the Caribbean: León, Monterrey, Pachuca, Seattle Sounders
Africa: Al Ahly, Espérance, Mamelodi Sundowns, Waydad
Asia: Al-Hilal, Al Ain, Ulsan, Urawa
Oceania: Auckland Metropolis
