British Couple Reacts to THE US Stadiums for FIFA World Cup 26 

for the US stadiums, Tom Grossi here on RU-vid went to all the NFL stadiums last summer and he did tours of the AT&T, SOFI, Gillett, and Mercedes-Benz stadium

America's 250th birthday will take place during the World Cup.

Seattle, will go insane when the 6 matches are played here, can't wait.

Estadio Azteca is at 7280 feet above sea level! I cannot imagine playing a sport like soccer at that altitude!

6:05. Next to that stadium to the left is the Astrodome, the first covered large stadium in the world. It's unused but left standing for its historical status.

Fun fact about Seattle's venue: not only is it one of the loudest in the world (and it was explicitly designed to be), big plays that generate huge crowd reactions have been known to genuinely register on earthquake sensors! The most famous incident is "The Beast Quake": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_Quake

Guys, depending on the teams playing, I would suggest you get tickets to the FIFA World Cup matches. While it seats 83,000 people. It is located in downtown Atlanta with so many hotels within a short walking distance, the Georgia World Conference Center with related FIFA World Cup events. The Mercedes Benz Stadium is the home pitch for Atlanta United of the MLS. The local fans are rabid futbol fans. Also weather will never be a factor in the matches since the retractable roof will be able to provide a comfortable environment for the fans.

I live between MetLife Stadium and Philly so I can go to either stadium. If you plan to go to any of the matches if England makes it that far to the final stay on the Jersey side rent a car drive to the stadium you’ll deal with traffic congestion but you’ll reach your destination quicker. You can take day trips in New York using trains if you choose too.

I designed the sky boxes and amenity spaces at MetLife. Nice to see the interior shots crazy to remember running around on a golf cart inside it while it was being built

To give you an idea of just how large the video screens are in Cowboy Stadium, each pixel is 2.5 cm tall and 2.5 cm wide.

They didn’t say a lot about Lumen Field, which was built to both NFL and FIFA specifications, so I’m going to add a little history of soccer matches played there. Numerous exhibition games have taken place at Lumen Field, including high-profile clubs such as Manchester United, Barcelona, Celtic, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Club América and Chivas de Guadalajara. These games have proved to be highly popular, and the first sell-out of 66,772 fans at the stadium was a soccer match between Manchester United and Celtic. National teams such as Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, and China have played exhibition games at the stadium. Seattle was the site of the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group B opening round between the national teams of the United States, Costa Rica, Canada, and Cuba. Two matches of the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup opening round were also played at the stadium on July 4, 2009. In the second match, the United States comfortably defeated Grenada, who were playing in their first major international competition, 4-0. The Gold Cup returned in 2013 with Panama beating Martinique and Mexico defeating Canada in opening group play matches. It also hosted three matches during the 2016 Copa América Centenario, a special inter-continental tournament, including two group stage fixtures and a quarterfinal match between the United States and Ecuador. On November 22, 2009, Seattle was the site of the 14th annual MLS Cup between Real Salt Lake and the Los Angeles Galaxy, where Salt Lake won the Cup on penalty kicks (5-4). The stadium was the eighth venue to host the event and had the fourth-largest attendance for an MLS Cup. The MLS Cup returned to Seattle in 2019, with the Sounders hosting Toronto FC as the higher seed. The Sounders won in front of 69,274 spectators, setting a new record for a sporting event at Lumen Field and recording the second-highest cup attendance in league history. The stadium has also hosted a CONCACAF Champions League tournament final; on May 4, 2022, the Sounders defeated Pumas UNAM 3-0 in the second leg of the final before a tournament-record crowd of 68,741 to win 5-2 on aggregate, becoming the first MLS team to win the tournament under its current format. The two loudest open air stadiums in the NFL, which will also host matches are Arrowhead, Kansas City Chiefs. Topping out at 142.2 decibels, this stadium currently holds the world record for the loudest sporting venue in the world. And right behind them, Lumen Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks (NFL) and Seattle Sounders (MLS) and Seattle Reign (WNSL). Not only is Seattle loud, they have actually registered on the Richter scale which detects earthquakes, most famously during Marshawn Lynch’s iconic touchdown run in the postseason against the New Orleans Saints. In the past, PNSN (Pacific Northwest Seismic Network) has turned momentous Seahawks football games into teachable moments for students at the University of Washington, registering “Beast Quakes” (named after legendary Seahawks running back Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch) during dramatic plays. Now it’s doing the same for the Sounders. With the Sounders’ permission, the research team hooked up one seismometer inside the stadium for today’s big game, and another one not far outside. “Fans simply yelling will be of no interest to us; however, their jumping up and down should generate vibrations in the stadium and even be transmitted through the ground to sites at some distance,” Malone said. “The Sounder FC fans are particularly well known for their synchronized rhythmic jumping together, which should generate very strong seismic signals.” The seismologists’ clearest win was that they were able to hook up their equipment and get the results online for the match. The results were posted in real time on PNSN’s QuickShake website. (The KDK station registered the readings outside the stadium, while the SFC station was inside.) The biggest spikes came at 13:33:53, 13:42:50 and 13:57:07, when the Sounders scored. “It has been challenging to try and keep up with what the fans were doing in the excitement of the game,” Malone wrote in the game’s final blog update. “It will take some additional analysis to understand all the different types of signals that we recorded and how strong due to what actions.” Oh, and by the way, the seismologists weren’t the only winners today: The Sounders triumphed over Toronto, 3-1. But this stadium is consistently loud, even when an all-time great moment is not taking place. This venue has maxed out its volume at 137.6 decibels, which is the equivalent of an airplane taking off. Lastly it’s also hosted major concerts by The Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, One Direction, U2, and many more, some have had numerous concerts there like The Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.

If you want the nicest weather locations, based on these in the summer, then Seattle and Vancouver would be the best choices. It's sunny but not too hot. Most of the other US locations will be very hot and humid in the summer, outside of the West Coast locations that are usually more mild and less humid. Because of the elevation, Mexico City could be nice too.

Miami in the summer will be brutal. Really the world cup could be hosted in any region in country and have stadiums with the capacity needed. I live in Atlanta and there's at least 10 stadiums within a 4 hour driving radius with a capacity of at least 55,000.

Atlanta will being hosting several matches. I plan to volunteer. The roof opens up like a flower. So excited⚽️

Arrowhead is the rowdiest and most historic NFL stadium of the group. We also have the best game day tailgate crowd. You'll be more than welcome in KC.

I went to world cup 94 in Florida saw Belgium and Morroco play amazing, i still have my Ireland National Jersey

I’m surprised they’re not playing at The Colesium and Rose Bowl in L.A. which hold 100,000 each.

I live next to Cowboys stadium in Arlington Texas

The roof being added to Hard Rock made all the world of difference from the old days when it was way too hot to enjoy the Dolphins

World Cup will be in America, Canada and Mexico.

The way the original video glossed over Mercedes-Benz in Atlanta... It's a dual stadium with retractable to seats to enhance the soccer experience for the teams and the fans and it's also the home of the MLS Championship winner Atlanta United FC.

I don't think you guys have done the MSG Sphere in Vegas. You should. Incredible inside and out.

The funny part is the amount of stadiums with the required capacity by fifa could have just been hosted in the state of Texas. We were being nice in letting other people host games.

Hi guys! I wish they would measure the noise levels at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It's by far the loudest stadium I've ever been in.

FYI Cost to build SOFI stadium in Los Angeles was 5.5 Billion dollars.

If you come to Texas be ready for crazy weather 115 degrees outside

Sorry I haven’t popped by for a while, but I hope that your family is having a great year so far! Much love from the U.S.! P.S. If you guys are interested in potentially going to a World Cup game, make sure you register your interest with Fifa so you get early notifications when tickets go on sale! I expect the interest to be insanely high for this one! I’m eagerly anticipating 2026 myself. It would be my first World Cup!

It is going to be a great celebration.

Sofi stadium is closer to $8B in final cost

Vancouver FC had a powerful soccer stadium

My family has had NY Giants season tickets since 1976, the old Giants stadium was torn down and MetLife was opened in 2010. Everyone I've ever talked to hates it, it's a cold, gray boring stadium that should have been a dome for all the money that was spent by taxpayers. We call it the mausoleum.

It is going to be a great world cup. I hope it gets more Americans into soccer. Nice video and reaction!

My parents took me to quarter final match last time the World Cup was in the USA. Loved football ever since.

BC Place has already hosted the Final of the 2015 Women's World Cup. BMO Field in Toronto hosted the Final of the 2007 Men's U-20 World Cup as well as the Final of the 2014 Women's U-20 World Cup. Canada is no stranger to hosting world football finals.

AT&T stadium hosted a Barca v Madrid friendly and the atmosphere was amazing, even for a friendly, shame it wasn’t able to host the final, would of been mad

NY jets and NY Giants NFL teams play at MetLife aka big refrigerator The stadium is in middle of nowhere

Odd that they mention Levi's Stadium as a host of Wrestlemania (31) when half the US stadiums selected have hosted the event since then. (MetLife 35, Lincoln Field 40, AT&T Stadium 32&38, SoFi 39). SoFi was also the host of the SuperBowl (and the best halftime show) in 2023.

I can't wait to watch it!

I live in Los Angeles and would love to go to a game in SoFi. Buuuuut the tickets are going to be super expensive 😢. I guess I’ll watch the games from my local bar

8:39 New York Guardians? That’s about four years out of date. Last year they were the Orlando Guardians, and this year they were dissolved.

I hope all 3 you're doing well went to the world cup here in the United States and the 90s and it was very expensive so I'm sure now it's gonna be even more

I'm gonna do the joke because I can and I'm a US Citizen. If by chance our stadiums are not "big" enough, that is not a problem at all. We've got inches, feet, yards, and miles we can expand by if we need to, because metric sucks rock salt. I'm kidding about the measurement beef, but not about the expansion. If we need to, some city will be given the "honor" of having a new stadium that meets the size demands built in their municipality and then it'll be their problem after the game is played. Odds are is that city would most likely be Las Vegas because a lot of sports team migration is going on there. It seems like a lot of the teams from the Bay Area in California, namely Oakland's teams, are being bought up and moved to Las Vegas and Las Vegas is going all out making new stadiums for these teams. What's one more gigantic stadium out in the middle of the desert?

It's obvious that Los Angeles SoFi should have hosted the final. I wonder what was so important they gave it to New Jersey.

So excited for World Cup to come to Seattle!

I’m curious if they are going to make changes to Levi stadium because the parking and traffic there is horrible.

The USA hosted the 1994 World Cup and after 30 years it is still #1 in overall attendance of 3,587,538 and 68,991average attendance per match

Come to Atlanta. We have an absolutely beautiful stadium. It's quite a sight to behold!

England vs USA on 4th of july is what im hoping for

MetLife Stadium is only a 20 minute walk from my house and I live a town over

Metlife stadium is the 15th biggest stadium in the US

Definitely show her sofi. Most expensive stadium in the world

You guys should watch the 222-0 video!

Allegiant Stadium ? Wont host any gane? Too bad ! I had the chance to travel Vegas last year Andt that Stadium is just insane brilliant !

Double check dates to the weather if you plan on going. Some of those places could be hotter than heck.

THE UNITED STATES IS JUST GETTING INTERESTED IN SOCCER

Sofi a billion dollar stadium? 😂 Try 5 Billion dollar stadium. I'm very surprised the Raiders Las Vegas stadium isn't one of the chosen stadiums.

Out of all those stadiums I would say Philadelphia would probably be the worst location for tourism/leisure.

I'm surprised LA's new stadium isn't going to be in the world cup. maybe it was a logistics issue? idk I'll have to look into it

8:40 The Guardians did not survive the XFL/USFL merger. The US history of spring league football is depressing, but interesting.

There are going to ba a lot of disappointment when people traveling from all over come to Atlanta and realize you can't see the whole pitch.

Well at least we can definitely afford it!

i am 81% british and 19% northwestern european i was born and raised in the u s and would love to go to the u k

What's interesting about the Kansas City CHIEFS stadium, is that the citizens were given a choice; build a new stadium, or retrofit the old. What makes it interesting is that it would have been cheaper to build a new stadium. They chose to keep with tradition 😢😢🎉🎉🎉

They should have had them at college stadiums, many have over 100k capacity.

Why aren't they being hosted in college stadiums. They can hold more people

Kansas City swifties

I hope SF cleans up its act. Wont be a good look for visitors as is.

Good to know you view the entirety of North America as the "US" 😐

Disregard the names for the American stadiums the narrator literally is just calling them by the city names so it’s highly inaccurate. For instance the stadium in Los Angeles is Sofi Stadium, the stadium for the patriots isnt in Boston it’s actually Foxboro and is called Gillette stadium like the razor brand. He should have really done his research in the US stadium names .

Don’t let the photos fool you. MetLife Stadium is trash. Was there for a couple of concerts this past summer. Horrible.

Estadio Azteca, the best by far, the most historical of all.

The finals being in New York is the biggest mistake that could have been made. The logistics alone will be a nightmare. Especially when fifa require turf and MetLife is a grass field known for injurying players left and right. They had so many better choices but decided they will pick a stadium that is not ready and make them use more tax payers dollars to get it ready. FIFA sucks and can’t wait till World Cup in America ends fifa organization is not welcomed here period.

What a waste of money.😢

Very few in the US cares about the World Cup. To the majority of us it is a joke sport.

I hate to break this to you, but the US has little interest in what you call football. All the hype will not make a difference.

It’s still soccer, Booooorrrrring