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Originally Posted by SaskScraper
Question is not what city but what stadiums are viable to play.
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It's a combination of both. For anyone that hasn't read it yet i'd recommend reading the bid book from FIFA for the 2026 WC linked earlier in this thread. The qualifying formula for host cities is not
just about stadiums.
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Originally Posted by SaskScraper
The stadium in Toronto is by far the smallest & least ready in NAmerica for the 2026 World Cup, spare that city the embarrassment (and Canada a couple hundred million $$$) and just have Edmonton & Montreal host Canada's share of games. Commonwealth is most easy to modify for World Cup and The Olympic Owe can probably still be held together for one last hurrah in 2026.
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You're joking, right? Unlike, say, Montreal, BMO doesn't need hundreds in millions in
repairs just to make the cut. Olympic as it stands today is not a suitable venue for a World Cup and requies that investment just to be up to par. BMO, on the other hand, could conceivably host with additional added seats up to a capacity of 40K/45K. We went over all of this on this forum two years ago in the stadium thread on this very subject.
Toronto is the most obvious market for hosting WC games in Canada and anyone that says otherwise is either arguing in bad faith or is wilfully ignorant.