2026 FIFA World Cup Host City Guide: Miami, Florida

In advance of this summer’s FIFA World Cup, SportsTravel is delving into each of the 11 U.S. cities that will host matches during the event. This year’s edition will be the largest ever, with 48 teams (up from 32) and it will be the first to be staged in three countries — Canada, Mexico and the United States — with 16 host cities in total.

Up next in our series: Miami, Florida, which will host Men’s FIFA World Cup matches for the first time. The coastal city is home to an estimated 6.4 million residents and is the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As well as being the third richest city in the United States, the area is well known for its cultural diversity (70 percent of the city’s population identified as Hispanic or Latino in 2020), its reputation in finance, commerce and the arts, and its love of sports, notably hosting prestigious events in the NFL, college football, Formula One, tennis and more.

[Editor’s Note: Click here to read our past features on Philadelphia, Kansas City, Houston and Dallas]

[For the full list of confirmed base camps so far, click here.]

Stadium

Stadium: Miami Stadium (normally known as Hard Rock Stadium)

Capacity: 65,000

Opened: 1987

Previous WC Hosting Experience: N/A

Games: Seven matches including:

• Saudi Arabia v Uruguay | Group H | Monday, June 15

• Uruguay v Cabo Verde | Group H | Sunday, June 21

• Scotland v Brazil | Group C | Wednesday, June 24

• Colombia v Portugal | Group K | Saturday, June 27

• Match 86 | Round of 32 | Friday, July 3

• Match 99 | Quarterfinal | Saturday, July 11

• Match 103 | Bronze final | Saturday, July 18

Location

Going by a different name for is nothing new for this venue. It opened in 1987 as Joe Robbie Stadium and has since been called Pro Player Park, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphins Stadium, Dolphin Stadium, Land Shark Stadium and Sun Life Stadium before becoming Hard Rock Stadium after naming rights were sold to Hard Rock Cafe Inc. in 2016 at a cost of $250 million. That partnership is due to expire in 2034.

The multi-purpose stadium will be known as Miami Stadium during the World Cup, which is fitting, as it is home to the Miami Hurricanes college football team, as well as the Miami Dolphins of the NFL.

To date, the stadium has hosted six Super Bowls, two World Series, four BCS National Championship Games, two CFP National Championships, one Copa America final, the World Baseball Classic, WrestleMania, the Orange Bowl and the Miami Open tennis tournament. The grounds around the venue have also played host to the Miami International Autodrome, a temporary racing circuit that was also used for Formula One’s Grand Prix in Miami.

Team Base Camps

Curaçao will prepare for its first FIFA World Cup campaign this summer at a base camp in Boca Raton, Florida, roughly 45 miles north. The “Blue Wave” (La Familia Azul) will use Florida Atlantic University (FAU) as its principal training facility, while the team and staff will stay at the Boca Raton Marriott at Boca Center between training sessions and matches.

The team from the Dutch Caribbean island already knows all of its opponents in Group E. Curaçao will make its World Cup debut in Houston on June 14 against four-time champion Germany, before facing Ecuador on June 20 in Kansas City and finishing against Côte d’Ivoire on June 25 in Philadelphia.

A number of national teams are yet to reveal their final base camps, and Portugal is reportedly a candidate to be based in and around Miami. The final base camp locations are due to be confirmed soon.

Fan Experience and Activations

Miami’s FIFA Fan Festival will be located at Bayfront Park on the waterfront in the heart of downtown Miami along Biscayne Bay. According to FIFA, no tickets will be required to attend the Fan Festival in Miami and it is set to be open from June 13 through July 5, with the full schedule to be revealed in due course.

In preparation for the event, Miami’s Organizing Host Committee is promising a Fan Festival that “brings the tournament to life with live match broadcasts, electrifying entertainment, cultural performances, food, games and interactive fan experiences,” across a 436,000-square-foot space.

If fans are unable to get into the Fan Festival, the Committee says that it will also host a series of official family-friendly public watch parties across Miami-Dade County.

Seafair Megayacht is also hosting watch parties for the semifinals, bronze medal match and the final as the tournament draws to a close this July.

Accommodation Supply

For the group-stage games in Miami, the 2026 occupancy rate is up 132 percent compared to 2025, rising from 10 percent to 24 percent occupancy, according to short-term rental data provider AirDNA.

With less than nine weeks to go until the tournament, however, AirDNA reports that the games with the highest year-over-year increase in demand are Brazil vs. Scotland at +325 percent on June 24 and Colombia vs. Portugal at +255 percent on June 27.

On pricing, the average booked rate across group stage dates is currently $299, a YoY increase of only 20 percent. The average available rate, however, (the price listings currently marketed at) is sitting at $494, a 108 percent increase compared to 2025.

For the Round-of-32 games, the occupancy rate is up 193 percent compared to 2025 (from only seven percent to 21 percent occupancy), while the match in Miami on July 3 is already driving a 206 percent YoY increase in demand.

For the quarterfinals, the occupancy rate is up 115 percent vs 2025 (from eight percent to 16 percent), but those numbers are likely to increase the closer it gets to confirmed qualifications.

The chart produced by Key Data above demonstrates that Miami is seeing one of the smallest increases in short-term rental reservations per property (+68 percent) during the World Cup of the 11 U.S. host cities, while still experiencing a sizeable 24 percent drop off in length of stay as fans move on to other cities or head home after games. The first statistic is quite unsurprising given Miami’s prominence as a major tourism destination but the shortening length of stay suggests that a large section of World Cup tourists to the city this summer have less intention of sticking around for a vacation than the usual demographic.

On the hotel side, Miami is one of six U.S. host cities to see a decrease in reservations per room (-14 percent) but by contrast, average daily rates are surging at the second highest rate of all the cities (behind only Kansas City), showing a sharp YoY increase at 75 percent.

Meanwhile, according to CoStar forecasts, the average daily rate in Miami at the time of the FIFA World Cup is the fourth lowest of the 11 U.S. host cities at $194.32. This also corresponds to the fourth lowest percentage growth in average daily rate YoY percentage change from 2025 at 0.099, suggesting that Miami’s boost from World Cup hosting is likely to be fairly minimal despite staging seven games.