in our Spotlight on Business Report the long and competitive process for the state to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup is also coming with a hefty price tag New Jersey's Sports and Exposition Authority recently approved a contract worth roughly 16 million dollars to expand MetLife Stadium that's to meet FIFA's requirements for hosting games North jersey.com first reported on the deal construction is slated to start in December and run through May 2025 but there's still a lot more work to come with the game's three years away it's the first FIFA men's tournament being split between multiple countries with games in the U.S Canada and Mexico now MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford is one of 16 venues selected by FIFA but the organization hasn't announced which games will be held there or which venue will host the coveted final there's also no official estimate on the cost to our area but the U.S spent roughly 500 million dollars when it last hosted the World Cup in 1994.

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