Atlanta is not just a city. It is the cultural heart of the American South, the birthplace of the civil rights movement, the city of Martin Luther King, of trap hip-hop and of Southern hospitality that has no equivalent anywhere else in the country. Mercedes-Benz Stadium hosts eight World Cup matches including Spain twice, Morocco, Haiti, South Africa and the semifinal on July 15. In this final episode of The World Cup Road we tell you everything you need to know to close the journey in style.

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Philadelphia is the city where the United States Declaration of Independence was signed. And on July 4, 2026, the day that country turns exactly two hundred and fifty years old, Lincoln Financial Field hosts a Round of 16 World Cup match. Brazil, France, Ivory Coast, Croatia, Ghana and Haiti in the group stage. The most important football in the world on the most important day of the American year. In this episode we tell you everything you need to know to experience Philadelphia the way it deserves.

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Boston is the most European city in the United States, the most historic, the most academic and, according to its own inhabitants, the most championship-winning. Gillette Stadium in Foxborough hosts seven World Cup matches including England, France, Morocco, Scotland, Norway, Ghana and a quarterfinal on July 9. All while the city celebrates the 250th anniversary of American independence and welcomes the historic tall ships fleet of Sail Boston. In this episode we tell you which matches are played, how to get around, where to stay and why Boston in the summer of 2026 is going to be the most intense and most exciting place on the planet.

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San Francisco does not need the World Cup to be extraordinary. But the World Cup makes it something even more special. Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara hosts six matches including Qatar, Switzerland, Austria, Jordan, Paraguay, Algeria and Australia. In this episode we tell you which matches are played, how to get around one of the most complex and most fascinating regions in the United States, where to stay and what to do in the place where the future was invented and where the past can still be touched with your hands.

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Seattle is the most football-passionate city in the United States. Not the most famous, not the largest, but the one with the most authentic and deepest relationship with football from before football was cool in America. Lumen Field, one of the loudest stadiums on the planet, hosts six World Cup matches including Belgium, Egypt, Iran, Qatar and the United States against Australia. In this episode we tell you which matches are played, how to get there, where to stay and why Seattle is going to surprise everyone who arrives thinking it is only rain, coffee and technology.

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Miami is not an American city that likes football. Miami is a Latin city that happens to live in the United States. And in the summer of 2026, Hard Rock Stadium hosts seven matches including Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia and Portugal, plus a quarterfinal on July 11 and the third-place match on July 18. In this episode we tell you which matches are played, how to get around in a city made of sun and contradictions, where to stay and why Miami is going to be the host city with the most World Cup atmosphere of the entire tournament.

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Kansas City is not the first city that comes to mind when you think about the 2026 World Cup. But it should be. Arrowhead Stadium, one of the loudest American football stadiums on the planet, hosts six matches including the World Cup debut of defending champions Argentina and a quarterfinal on July 11. A city at the literal heart of the United States that has world-class jazz, the best barbecue in the known universe and a hospitality that is going to surprise everyone who arrives without expectations. In this episode we tell you everything you need to know to experience Kansas City the way it deserves.

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Los Angeles is the city of stars, cinema, permanent sunshine and mass-produced dreams. In the summer of 2026, SoFi Stadium in Inglewood becomes the stage for eight World Cup matches, including the United States' first two matches and a quarterfinal on July 10. In this episode we tell you which matches are played, how to get around in the most sprawling city in America, where to stay and what to do in one of the most fascinating, contradictory and addictive places on the planet.

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