A host of stars have signed on to perform at the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw on Friday 5 December.
Tony Award-winning actor and singer Nicole Scherzinger, Grammy-nominated tenor Andrea Bocelli, global music superstar Robbie Williams and disco icons Village People will headline the Final Draw.
The splashy affair will take place at the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, where Heidi Klum, Kevin Hart and Danny Ramirez will share co-hosting duties.
YMCA hitmakers Village People will close the year in the same city they performed in for several events around President Trump’s second inauguration.
The Final Draw performance comes at the end of a banner year for Scherzinger. Over the summer, she won the Tony Award for best performance by a leading actress in a musical for Sunset Boulevard, her Broadway debut.
Bocelli is no stranger to World Cup festivities, having headlined the Celebrate Africa concert in Johannesburg, South Africa, two days before the final of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Fresh off his Oscar-nominated Better Man biopic, Williams’ performance arrives just a few months before he unveils his 13th studio album, Britpop, in February.
The Final Draw will reveal the group-stage matchups for the 48-team World Cup, which will unfold between 11 June and 19 July next year. Three nations will jointly host the upcoming tournament for the first time; the US is the main host, while Canada and Mexico will co-host.
Former England captain Rio Ferdinand will conduct the draw alongside award-winning British broadcaster and sports journalist Samantha Johnson.
Several cross-sports icons will also serve as draw assistants, including NFL’s Tom Brady, NBA’s Shaquille O’Neill, ice hockey great Wayne Gretzky and New York Yankees baseball player Aaron Judge.
