Published on
02/06/2026 - 6:00 GMT+2
After more than 30 years, the FIFA World Cup is back in Boston, Massachusetts – or at least it's near to one of America’s great sporting cities.
World Cup games will be hosted in the small town of Foxborough – about 30 miles south of “Beantown” – for the first time since 1994, when the now-demolished Foxboro Stadium hosted eventual runner-up Italy’s 2-1 win over Spain in the quarter-finals.
Boston/Foxborough also hosted Women’s World Cup matches in 1999 and 2003, the latter at the current Gillette Stadium, which opened in 2002 and is home to the NFL’s New England Patriots.
