It was announced today that Canada, Mexico and the US will co-host the 2026 FIFA World Cup!  The question of the day is who gets the automatic bid which usually goes to the host country?  Most of us assumed an automatic berth would go to all three countries, but that may not be the case.

It sounds like FIFA will make the decision, most likely at the FIFA Congress in 2019.  It seems unlikely that an expanded tournaments wouldn’t include all three hosts but we are in unchartered territory as South Korea and Japan (2002) were the the only co-hosts.

Safe to say that a World Cup in the US without the US team competing is not an option!

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