The cup, as it happens.

Its eight-panel 'oculus' roof opens like a camera aperture — inspired by the Roman Pantheon — beneath a 360° halo board. LEED Platinum, and widely called the finest stadium in North America.

Built by HOK with TVS Design

Anchored by a signature lighthouse and bridge nodding to New England's coast; a 2023 upgrade raised a 22-story lighthouse tower over the open end.

Built by HOK Sport (now Populous)

Known as 'Jerry World', its retractable roof arches nearly 660 feet over the largest column-free interior on earth. It hosts nine matches — more than any other 2026 venue — including a semi-final.

Built by HKS

Home of Chivas, Akron was designed as a landform rather than a building — a volcano-like hill rising from the Zapopan forest, its sweeping roof folding the bowl into the landscape.

Built by Jean-Marie Massaud & Daniel Pouzet

The NFL's first retractable-roof stadium, built to shrug off Houston's heat and humidity — a climate-controlled template that many later venues copied.

Built by Populous (then HOK Sport)

A 1972 bowl that holds the Guinness record for the loudest outdoor stadium at 142.2 decibels; its encircling tiers turn the crowd into a twelfth player.

Built by Kivett & Myers; renovation by Populous

The newest and most expensive stadium ever built (~$5.5B). Its pitch sits below ground to clear LAX flight paths, sheltered by a translucent canopy wrapped around a vast dual-sided videoboard.

Built by HKS

Carved into volcanic rock so fans enter at mid-bowl, the Azteca is the only ground to stage two World Cup finals (1970 and 1986) — and in 2026 becomes the first stadium ever to open three different World Cups. Its thin 2,240 m air is a tactic in itself.

Built by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez & Rafael Mijares Alcérreca

A 2016 reinvention wrapped the bowl in a four-corner canopy that shades fans while leaving the pitch open to the Florida sky. Host of the 2024 Copa América final and the 2026 third-place match.

Built by HOK (renovations by HOK & Rockwell Group)

Framed by the jagged Cerro de la Silla ridge, the 'Steel Giant' opens one side of its bowl to pull Monterrey's mountains straight into the stands — routinely ranked among the most beautiful grounds in the Americas.

Built by Populous & VFO Arquitectos

The Meadowlands giant that stages the 2026 Final on July 19. Its louvered façade and 82,500 seats make it the largest venue of the tournament, just across the Hudson from Manhattan.

Built by Populous

'The Linc' anchors South Philadelphia's sports complex with crisp sightlines and an urban-industrial edge; its Round-of-16 night carries a ceremony for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Built by NBBJ & Agoos Lovera

Silicon Valley's stadium, LEED Gold certified with a green roof and solar arrays — engineered for the connected, sun-drenched matchday of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Built by HNTB

A downtown bowl whose steep decks and partial roof trap noise into a wall of sound, with Elliott Bay and the Olympic Mountains beyond — one of the loudest atmospheres in the game.

Built by LMN Architects & Ellerbe Becket

A downtown landmark whose 2011 rebuild crowned it with one of the world's largest cable-supported retractable roofs, spanning roughly 750 feet beneath an illuminated skin.

Built by Studio Phillips Barratt; roof by Stantec & Geiger Engineers