The World Cup trophy will be on display in Kansas City as part of a FIFA tour
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- FIFA will tour World Cup trophy across North America including Kansas City on April 18–19.
- Tour schedule links trophy displays to US, Mexican and Canadian host cities.
- Kansas City will host six World Cup matches and display the trophy April 18–19.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup trophy will be awarded on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, following the month-long soccer tournament’s final match.
But before that championship match is played, the trophy will be going on tour across the three nations hosting this year’s World Cup: the United States, Mexico and Canada.
It will be on display in 38 cities, including Kansas City, which will play host to six matches in the World Cup.
Although the World Cup was first played in 1930, this iteration of the World Cup trophy was first awarded to West Germany in 1974. The original prize was the Jules Rimet trophy, but Brazil got to keep that hardware after winning its third World Cup title in 1970, as the New York Times noted.
Although Germany won the World Cup trophy for a third time in 2014, the prize didn’t go back to Berlin for good. That could be because the Jules Rimet trophy was believed to be stolen after West Germany won the 1954 World Cup, according to that excellent New York Times story.
But the new trophy, which was last won by Argentina in 2022, will be in Kansas City, where Lionel Messi and his countrymen will begin their quest to win it again.
When the World Cup trophy will be in KC
The North American trophy tour will begin in Mexico City on Feb. 26 before heading to nine other Mexican cities. The U.S. and Canadian leg of the tour will start on March 24 in Los Angeles.
It will be in Kansas City on April 18 and 19, after making stops in Chicago and St. Louis. FIFA hasn’t yet shared where the trophy will be displayed.
But in a news release, FIFA said “the US leg will deliver interactive experiences and unique, up-close moments with the world’s most iconic trophy.”
Here are the cities in which the trophy will be displayed:
Feb. 26-27: Mexico City
Feb. 28-March 2: Guadalajara
March 4-5: León
March 6-7: Veracruz
March 9-10: Chihuahua
March 11-12: Querétaro
March 14-17: Monterrey
March 18-19: Puebla
March 20: Chichén Itzá
March 21-22: Mérida
March 24-25: Los Angeles
March 28: Las Vegas
March 29-30: San Francisco
April 1: Salt Lake City
April 4: Portland
April 5-6: Seattle
April 10-11: Vancouver
April 12: Calgary
April 13: Winnipeg
April 14-15: Chicago
April 17: St. Louis
April 18-19: Kansas City
April 25-26: Dallas
April 28-29: Austin
April 30: San Antonio
May 2-3: Houston
May 5: New Orleans
May 7: Birmingham
May 9-10: Miami
May 11-12: Orlando
May 15-16: Atlanta
May 21: Philadelphia
May 22: Montreal
May 23: Halifax
May 24: Ottawa
May 25-26: Toronto
May 30-31: Boston
June 3: New York New Jersey
This story was originally published January 30, 2026 at 12:07 PM.
