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Algeria has become the fourth Men’s National Soccer Team to set up 2026 FIFA World Cup team base camp in the greater Kansas City region, choosing the University of Kansas’ Rock Chalk Park in Lawrence, Kansas, as its training facility. It comes after Argentina (Kansas City, Kansas), England (Kansas City, Missouri) and the Netherlands (Kansas […]
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Kansas City has unveiled plans for its FIFA Fan Festival for fans coming to experience the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and has announced that Black & Veatch, a Kansas City-based engineering, construction and consulting company, will sponsor the local organizing committee. As a partner of the host committee, the company will help build out the […]
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There will be matches and they will be massive, drawing tens of thousands to stadiums and millions upon millions watching around the world. For the cities and regions that are hosting 2026 FIFA World Cup games in the United States, that is only part of what the impact should be for the month-plus tournament. “Those […]
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For all of the logistics that come with hosting matches during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the biggest one for all of the U.S. host cities is this: How to get fans to the games. Internationally, the ability to take mass transit to games is the tradition. At the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, fans […]
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For each of the 11 U.S. host cities ahead of next summer’s 2026 FIFA World Cup, anticipation is building toward the matches, the economic impact, the worldwide tourism and the upcoming draw to determine which teams will come to town. But dozens of other destinations could see one or more of the 48 national teams […]
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KC2026 announced that the board of directors has elected Mark Jorgenson, a retired financial services executive, to the role of president, succeeding Karen Daniel. “We are immensely grateful to Karen for her visionary leadership and tireless dedication to KC2026,” said KC2026 Chief Executive Officer Pam Kramer. “Her impact has been profound and she leaves the […]
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KC2026, the FIFA World Cup 26 Kansas City Host Committee, signed a lease for 200 buses to be used during the tournament, the first of 16 Host Cities to announce it had procured buses for the tournament. The KC2026 bus system will complement existing bus routes on both sides of the state line, transporting people […]
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The local organizing committee for Kansas City’s matches in the 2026 FIFA World Cup are putting its sponsorship and supporter packages on the market with a variety of marketing assets, tickets and hospitality amenities. This is the first time FIFA has allowed host cities to sell local sponsorships. Kansas City will host six games during […]
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