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Lincoln Financial Field will host eight matches of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, including a match on July 4 of the 2026 World Cup tune-up tournament, Football’s governing body announced this on Saturday.
The 2025 event is a competition for the world’s best club teams, showcasing the best talent from national leagues around the world. The 2026 tournament will involve national teams.
Next year’s club tournament will run from June 15 to July 13, with the final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, where the World Cup final will be held a year later, on July 19, 2026. The opening match will be between Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami and Egyptian team Al Ahly at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.
The 63 games are broadcast for free DAZN’s streaming platform. Tickets are available from Thursday, December 19 on the FIFA website.
These are the games from Linc:
Group stage
June 16 at 9 p.m.: Group D – Flamengo (Brazil) vs. Espérance Sportive de Tunis (Tunisia)
June 18 at 12:00: Group G – Manchester City (England) vs. Wydad AC (Morocco)
June 20 at 2 p.m.: Group D – Flamengo (Brazil) vs. Chelsea (England)
June 22 at 12:00: Group G – Juventus (Italy) vs. Wydad AC
June 24 at 9 p.m.: Group D – Espérance Sportive de Tunis vs. Chelsea
June 26 at 9 p.m.: Group H – Red Bull Salzburg (Austria) vs. Real Madrid (Spain)
Knockout rounds
June 28 at 12:00: Round of 16 match
July 4 at 9 p.m.: Quarterfinal match
Philly’s Fourth of July game — which will be a good benchmark for how the 2026 one will go — is one of two quarterfinals that day. Orlando’s Camping World Stadium will host its first match at 3 p.m
Some teams have played at the Linc before. Chelsea have played a few preseason games there, the most recent in the first ever English Premier League Summer Series in 2023. Manchester City and Real Madrid’s biggest rivals, Manchester United and Barcelona, hosted the first ever ticketed match at the Linc in August 2003.
In addition to South Philly, East Rutherford, NJ and Miami, games will also be played at the following locations:
Here is the full schedule:
The tournament to determine the best club team in the world will be the first edition of the new tournament format, which switches from annual to quadrennial and significantly increases the number of teams from the previous edition’s seven to 32.
It replaces the now defunct Confederations Cup as a warm-up match for the 2026 World Cup, in which Philly will host five group matches and a round of 16 match on July 4as part of an extensive tournament on three continents.
All 2026 games will coincide with Philly and the country’s centennial celebration. In addition to the World Cup, the city (and its suburbs) will also host other sporting events that year, including the MLB All-Star Game at Citizens Bank Park, golf’s US Amateur Championship in Gladwyne, and the 108th PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club in Delaware County in July, as well as games in the first and second rounds of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament earlier in the year.
The expanded tournament has attracted a lot of criticism over the way it adds to the already busy schedules for the players in these competitions. Players unions and leagues have filed legal complaints against FIFA about the scheduling of the tournament, and many have expressed concerns about the players’ welfare.
The Philadelphia Union did not qualify for this edition of the tournament. The United States is represented by the Seattle Sounders, who participated by winning the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League, and Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami, which won the Supporters’ Shield this season but was selected by FIFA as the host nation. The entire pool will be drawn on Thursday in Miami came out like this:
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
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