Chicago's Soldier Field to Host 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup Final

Chicago's Soldier Field will host the CONCACAF Gold Cup final for the third time next year.

MIAMI (AP) – Chicago's Soldier Field will host the CONCACAF Gold Cup final for the third time next year.

The game will be played on July 7, CONCACAF said Thursday. That is the same day as the Women's World Cup final in Lyon, France, making a likely television doubleheader for Fox in the United States.

Soldier Field also was site of the Gold Cup final in 2007 and 2013.

16 national teams will compete with one common goal: To bring home Our Cup and to remind the world - This Is Ours!

Join us on Sunday July 7th, as the iconic Soldier Field hosts the 2019 @GoldCup Final in Chicago!#GoldCup pic.twitter.com/1e9Zo3PTuR

— Concacaf (@Concacaf) September 27, 2018

The expanded 16-nation tournament, the championship of North and Central America and the Caribbean, starts in mid-June. The United States is defending champion.