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Canada will host 13 of the 104 games at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with seven in Vancouver and six in Toronto. As expected, the U.S. will stage the lion’s share of the action — with 78 games — at the expanded 48-team soccer showcase. Like Canada, Mexico will host 13 …
Read More »2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup ‘wide open,’ says Canadian coach – National
The FIFA Women’s World Cup is already setting records. But there have been growing pains getting to Thursday’s kickoff. The hope is the focus will now remain on football. Canada coach Bev Priestman predicts the expanded tournament will deliver heaps of entertainment and drama, across nine host cities in Australia …
Read More »FIFA women’s World Cup: Canadian interest higher than for men’s tournament, poll shows – National
As the Canadian women’s soccer team prepares for the start of the FIFA World Cup, there appears to be more interest and greater expectations placed on them prior to the event than were on the men last year, new polling shows. Team Canada, ranked seventh in the world, will play …
Read More »Vancouver mayor Ken Sim talks public safety, homelessness as the city gets ready to host FIFA 2026 – BC
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be bringing all eyes to Vancouver as the city will become one of the host cities in the expanded 48 team tournament. While we’re still three years out, Global’s Julie Nolin had a conversation with Mayor Ken Sim about what the city is doing …
Read More »Will Ontario fund Toronto’s World Cup plan? Inside the provincial deliberations
Toronto’s plans to host five games as part of the 2026 World Cup could be in jeopardy as provincial officials continue painstaking deliberations over whether or not to pitch in and help pay for the event, something the city expects them to do. During increasingly detailed discussions about how to …
Read More »No alcoholic beer sales in World Cup stadiums: FIFA
In a reversal, alcoholic beer will not be sold at Qatar’s World Cup stadiums, world soccer governing body FIFA said in a statement on Friday. The announcement comes two days before Sunday’s kickoff of the World Cup, the first to be held in a conservative Muslim country with strict controls …
Read More »Chief says having Musqueam art featured in new FIFA video game a ‘huge step forward’
A unique collaboration between Vancouver’s EA Sports video game studio and the Musqueam First Nation is bringing Indigenous artwork and cultural elements to FIFA 23 — a popular soccer video game played by millions of people. The latest edition is being released worldwide Friday, Canada’s National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. Chief Wayne Sparrow says EA approached the First …
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