​NEW YORK — Start with the math, because it borders on absurd. One weekend, one metro area: the back-to-back champion Dodgers at Yankee Stadium, the biggest sports-collectibles show on the planet at the Javits, and the World Cup Final across the river, and you can reach all of it on a MetroCard. Three sports in 72 hours, and on Sunday, July 19, two of them collide on the same day, the Final in the afternoon and first pitch in the Bronx at 7:20 p.m. World Cup Final weekend in New York is not a vacation. It is a beautiful, sweaty logistics problem, and this guide is how you win it, from The Sporting Tribune’s Road Game series.Dates: Thursday, July 16 to Sunday, July 19, 2026.The Final: FIFA World Cup Final, Sunday, July 19 at MetLife Stadium. In the US, watch on FOX in English and Telemundo in Spanish.Also that weekend: Dodgers at Yankees, July 17 to 19. Fanatics Fest at the Javits Center, July 16 to 19.Free watch parties: Central Park Great Lawn, Rockefeller Center, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and five-borough fan zones.Best for: West Coast fans who want to do three sports in one weekend and brag about it forever.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe West Coast hook. Follow the champs east. Catch the Dodgers and Yankees in the Bronx on Friday and Saturday, then throw yourself into the World Cup Final madness on Sunday. One flight, three sports, zero chill.Landing smart. Fly into whichever airport lands you closest to your bed, then learn the one rule that separates New Yorkers from tourists: stand right, walk left, and never, ever stop dead at the top of the subway stairs. The city will be hot, crowded and running on pure adrenaline this weekend. Match its pace or it will politely run you over.General view outside of Yankee Stadium.Ed MulhollandAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementGeneral view outside of Yankee Stadium.Dodgers at Yankees, July 17 to 19. A rematch of the 2024 World Series and a midseason look at the defending champs in the most famous ballpark in the sport. The Sunday, July 19 game starts at 7:20 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock, after the soccer ends, so on paper you can do both in one day. Keyword: paper. More on that below.Fanatics Fest, July 16 to 19 at the Javits Center. The closest thing sports has to Comic-Con. LeBron James turns up July 16 and 17, the championship Knicks run autograph and photo ops, and because the whole thing is timed to the Final, FIFA holds its official pre-match press conferences right there on the floor July 17. It is chaos, in the good way.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe World Cup Final, July 19 at MetLife Stadium. The match the entire trip orbits, with a halftime show headlined by Madonna, Shakira and BTS. Tickets and official info run through FIFA at fifa.com. If you have a seat, congratulations, everything else is the warm-up. If you do not, read the watch-party section, because that is the real story for the other 99 percent of us.Where to buy tickets: For the World Cup Final at MetLife an