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Originally Posted by EndoftheBeginning
Canada is also making a joint bid with US and Mexico for 2026 Men's World Cup. It's probably a real long shot to have any games in Winnipeg since the three countries will need to share and there will probably only be 15 to 18 stadiums used. Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Edmonton would likely be the front runners that Canada puts forward.
On the plus side, the Women's World Cup group stage was very well attended here. Anyway, we can dream for a while at least. First things first, the North American bid needs to be successful.
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Other things not on our side:
- talks about a new stadium are ramping up in Calgary; if NA gets the World Cup, I'm sure they'll use that as leverage to get it built (and hopefully be a venue)
- Men's World Cup requires 100% natural turf (let's not get into politics here..), and I highly doubt anyone here would be willing to front the money to do it, unless Soccer Canada somehow found the money (unlikely).
- the lowest average attendance of World Cup tourneys in the last 20 years was 43k in Japan/Korea 2002. I don't think they'd even consider 33k at all.
- The CFL will not shut down for 3 weeks during the tournament, meaning they will need at least 4 stadiums during that time.