The World Cup is one year away. Is the U.S. ready?

The 2026 World Cup gets underway in the United States, Canada and Mexico next June. Here’s where everything stands with tickets, qualifying and more.

Argentina, led by star Lionel Messi, won the World Cup in 2022. Next year, soccer's global spectacle is headed to North America. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)The tickets

The stadiums

The teams

One year from Wednesday, a World Cup hosted by a record number of countries will play the first of an unprecedented amount of games involving an unequaled total of teams over a historic volume of days.