The Lumen Field in Seattle, Washington (US) will host six FIFA Club World Cup 2025™ games.
‘FIFA’ stated that the Major League Soccer (MLS) team Seattle Sounders FC will play all the three group-stage games at the FIFA Club World Cup 2025™ at the Lumen Field and their home stadium will host six matches in total when the most globally inclusive club football tournament in history is held in the United States next year.
The 68,740-capacity Lumen Field is a multipurpose stadium in Seattle, Washington, United States. Located in the City’s South of Downtown (SoDo) neighborhood, it is the home field for the Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer (MLS).
The Seattle Sounders FC is an American professional men’s soccer club based in Seattle, Washington, United States. The Sounders compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference.
Zürich (Switzerland)-based the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, more commonly known by its acronym FIFA, is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer and futsal.
The FIFA Club World Cup™ is an international men’s association football competition organized by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport’s global governing body. The competition was first contested in 2000 as the FIFA Club World Championship™.
The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup™ is the planned 21st edition of the FIFA Club World Cup™, an international club soccer competition organized by FIFA. The tournament is scheduled to be played in the United States from June 15th-July 13th, 2025.
‘FIFA’ further stated that on a visit to the venue, the FIFA President Gianni Infantino confirmed that the Seattle Sounders will play their three group-stage games on home soil having earned their right to be among the 32 participating teams by winning the 2022 Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) Champions League.
Miami (US)-based the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football, abbreviated as Concacaf, is one of FIFA’s six continental governing bodies for association football.
The Concacaf Champions Cup (previously known as the Concacaf Champions League) is an annual continental club football competition organized by Concacaf. The tournament is contested by clubs from North America, Central America and the Caribbean.
A further trio of fixtures in the first edition of the groundbreaking competition is also scheduled to come to the football-mad City in the US’s Pacific Northwest in a tournament that starts on June 15th, 2025 and ends with the Final at New Jersey’s 82,500-capacity MetLife Stadium on July 13th, 2025.
Said the FIFA President from one of the stands at the 68,740-capacity venue, which is famed for its atmosphere, “Six games of the FIFA Club World Cup™ will take place in this stadium and the three games of the group stage of the Seattle Sounders will take place here. So, we want to hear some noise and the World Cup [noise record] being broken in this stadium by the Seattle Sounders fans during the FIFA Club World Cup™ next year.”
As one of the 16 venues for the FIFA World Cup 26™, the Lumen Field will play host to four group-stage games, including the US Men’s National Team’s second group game on June 19th, 2026.
One of 11 US-based Host Cities, it will also provide the backdrop for a Round of 32 fixture and a Round of 16 tie at the 48-team tournament co-hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup™, marketed as FIFA World Cup 26, will be the 23rd FIFA World Cup™, the quadrennial international men’s soccer championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament will take place from June 11th to July 19th, 2026. It will be jointly hosted by 16 Cities in three North American countries: Canada, Mexico and the United States. The tournament will be the first hosted by three nations and the first North American World Cup since 1994. Argentina is the defending champion.
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