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America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
2026 World Cup Teams Will Have Home Crowds Among U.S. Foreign-Born
As the United States hosts the 2026 International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup along with Canada and Mexico this month, soccer teams from around the world are likely to draw support from foreign-born fans in the United States.
The global tournament brings people from six continents to the United States, a nation shaped and developed by people from across the world. In the 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey, 47.3 million foreign-born people called the U.S. home.
The World Cup offers a unique opportunity to examine how people from participating nations are represented across the country and where they live.
Among countries competing this summer, many have relatively small populations in the United States that are not large enough to be analyzed in detail. We focus on the 10 countries with the largest foreign-born U.S. populations and show how they are distributed across U.S. host cities.
Continue reading to explore the largest foreign-born populations in the U.S. among World Cup nations and where they live.
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