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Games, stadiums, and the big events — from the World Cup to the Super Bowl — that fill Atlanta's city center.
The stadium district does not get an off-season, and the next five title events are already on the calendar.
Eight matches, both finalists and a fan festival that had to add a day have the host committee already looking at 2031 and 2038.
Three decades of gold medals, expansion-team gambles and immigrant fandom turned a football town into the country's soccer capital.
College football's oldest on-campus stadium is getting chairbacks, a speakeasy, and a massive videoboard — without touching its 1913 bones.
A first-person dispatch from Centennial Olympic Park captured what the tournament actually felt like at ground level — and who really showed up.
Goal.com ranked Atlanta the top host city of the 2026 World Cup, citing 8 matches and a record downtown fan festival.
Men in Blazers broadcast from Founders Green as Spain's House of Spain set up nearby in South Downtown during Atlanta's World Cup.
Mercedes-Benz Stadium — competing under the FIFA designation Atlanta Stadium — hosted the Round of 32 fixture between England and DR Congo on July 1, one of eight tournament matches drawing the world to downtown Atlanta this summer.
Beehives, an urban garden and the busiest turnstiles in North America — the stadium's stranger statistics.
The first FIFA World Cup match ever played in Atlanta produced the tournament's first upset: a scoreless draw that felt like a win for the third-smallest nation ever to reach the World Cup.
FIFA's new 'Letters That Unite' video catches USMNT midfielder Sebastian Berhalter reading a letter from his father — former national team coach Gregg Berhalter — on the eve of the USA's World Cup opener. Bring tissues, then bring yourself downtown Friday night.
A primer on the USMNT's World Cup group — opponents, fixtures, and what knockout-round scenarios look like.
Pochettino's USA takes on Paraguay Friday June 12 in LA — their Group D opener and the first World Cup match on US soil since 1994. Predicted XI, stakes, and where to watch in Atlanta.
The new mixed-use district adjacent to Mercedes-Benz Stadium is fully open for the tournament. Here is what is there and how it fits into a match day or a regular downtown visit.
Atlanta's first World Cup match kicks off at noon. Here is where to eat before the game, how to get downtown, and what is happening in the hours around kickoff at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
