Philadelphia Union's second team will face Ivory Coast in a pre-World Cup scrimmage on June 8 at Subaru Park in Chester. The Ivory Coast national team is preparing for the FIFA World Cup 2026 and has chosen Chester and Delaware as its base camp site. The team will hold a community training session on June 12 at Subaru Park, which will be free and open to the public. The Ivory Coast national team is one of the top teams in Africa and has won three Africa Cup of Nations championships. They will play two of their three group stage matches at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, which will be temporarily labeled 'Philadelphia Stadium'. The team's non-Philly game is against Germany in Toronto on June 20. The World Cup begins on June 11, and Philly is hosting six of the 104 games, including a round of 16 knockout game on the Fourth of July. Ivory Coast is the only team with its base camp in the Philadelphia region and the Union is one of 12 Major League Soccer teams hosting World Cup teams this summer. Four teams have chosen base camp sites in New Jersey: Brazil at the New York Red Bulls facility in Morris Township, Haiti at Stockton University, Morocco at the Pringry School in Basking Ridge and Senegal at Rutgers University's New Brunswick campus. Les Éléphants has been a continental powerhouse with three Africa Cup of Nations championship wins, most recently in 2023. The team reached the quarterfinals in this year's cup, losing to the eventual fourth-placed team Egypt. The team is currently ranked 34th in FIFA's global rankings. The nation first qualified for the World Cup in 2006. This summer's tournament will be its fourth appearance, and the first time back after failing to qualify for the last two iterations in 2018 and 2022. The team's best finish was 17th place in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. 'Les Éléphants' have yet to progress past the group stage of the tournament.