St. Louis tentatively slated to serve as base camp location for a 2026 FIFA World Cup team
FIFA released a preliminary list of base camp cities for the 2026 World Cup on Wednesday, with 24 sites named including Saint Louis University in St. Louis. FIFA has revealed that St. Louis is set to serve as a base camp for a national team participating in the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Despite not being scheduled to host a match, 24 sites including Saint Louis University and the Magnolia Hotel St. L. Louis have been named as bases camps for the teams, where they stay and train when they are not participating in a match. Each base camp location would be connected to a specific hotel, with each team expected to adopt their guests as a second team during the tournament. A total of 48 base camps will need to be needed for the total number of nations participating.
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ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - St. Louis is tentatively scheduled to serve as the home base camp for a national team participating in the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
FIFA released a preliminary list of base camp cities on Wednesday, with 24 sites named including Saint Louis University in St. Louis.
Each location would be connected to a specific hotel for the teams, with the Magnolia Hotel St. Louis set to serve in that role.
The base camps will be where the teams stay and train when they are not participating in a match.
St. Louis is among one of nine cities to be listed as a base camp site despite not being slated to host a FIFA World Cup match in 2026, joining Chattanooga, Cincinnati, Green Bay, Louisville, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Irvine (CA) and Westfield (Indiana).
"Even if a city is not staging matches, a participating team coming to stay creates a strong personal bond with the competition for people locally. It will see them adopt their guests as a second team during the tournament, thereby connecting even more people to the FIFA World Cup." said Heimo Schirgi, Chief Operating Officer World Cup.
Across the state, Kansas City, Missouri, which is set to six FIFA World Cup matches in 2026, including a quarterfinal match, will also serve as home base camp for three national teams.
The Kansas City Current’s Training Facility in Riverside Missouri, Sporting KC’s Training Center in Kansas City, Kansas, and the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas were listed as the sites in the area.
A total of 48 base camps will be needed. 48 represents the number of nations participating in the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Specific teams have not yet been assigned to specific base camps since only three countries have qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup at the moment: host nations USA, Canada, and Mexico.
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