Philadelphia to host 2026 MLB All-Star Game

PHILADELPHIA (FOX 29) - Major League Baseball's 2026 All-Star Game will be held in Philadelphia to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Commissioner Rob Manfred, Phillies owner John Middleton, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney made the announcement Tuesday afternoon alongside past and present Phillies players with Independence Hall as a backdrop.

This will be the first All-Star Game at Citizens Bank Park, which opened in 2004. The 1976 All-Star Game was played at Veterans Stadium to mark the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and the 1996 All-Star Game also was played at the Vet, which stood in the same sports complex in South Philadelphia. The 1943 and 1952 games were at Shibe Park.

This year's All-Star Game is July 9 at Cleveland's Progressive Field, which also hosted the All-Stars in 1997, when the ballpark was known as Jacobs Field. The 2020 game will be at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, site of the 1980 game. Sites for 2021-25 have not been announced.

Lincoln Financial Field, adjacent to Citizens Bank Park, is among the venues under consideration to hold matches during soccer's World Cup in June and July 2026.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.