OT: World Cup 2026 Finals In New Jersey
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Never thought they would give that lousy stadium the biggest game in the world.
NYC is still the center of the universe...will be a logistics nightmare...but mucho dinero for FIFA
Booom!
5 games in early rounds at met life and 5 in Philly
Just told my wife & daughter that’s our vacation that year - love ya Florida but World Cup takes precedence
Looks like I’m mortgaging my house if Italy makes the final !!
5 games in early rounds at met life and 5 in Philly
Just told my wife & daughter that’s our vacation that year - love ya Florida but World Cup takes precedence
Looks like I’m mortgaging my house if Italy makes the final !!
Probably won't even qualify.
They better
Missing out on the last two was painful
Hopefully we can make noise in Euro this year and build towards 2026
The upper deck will probably be in the $300-500 range for the final depending on how high up you are.
Couple questions for the soccer crowd:
- Guessing this will necessitate grass being installed, correct?
- Trays or whole new set up?
- Is it wide enough for a real full size pitch? Assuming when it was built this was always a consideration.
- Guessing this will necessitate grass being installed, correct?
- Trays or whole new set up?
- Is it wide enough for a real full size pitch? Assuming when it was built this was always a consideration.
Yes, don’t know about trays and they can widen by temporarily removing some lower rows on the lower bowl.
Oh goodness tickets will be a lot more than that.
At all the 2026 venues any turf has to get pulled up and grass planted. For real.
It’s wide enough. I’ve been to a soccer match there and it’s a very good venue for soccer. Better, I thought, than it is for football.
I think they will need to remove a few rows to meet WC standards. For the exhibitions and lesser cup games I don’t think they were required to do so. Either way they have the capacity to do it.
I was gonna say, sign me up for that right now if that was gonna be the cost!
I attended the '94 WC matches in Palo Alto. I thought prices were outlandish then. Expect the prices to be about 10x that of '94.
They were referring to Italy. US as a host should automatically qualify but since this WC is shared among a few nations has that changed? I read it the same way you did initially.
Thanks, wasn’t sure. Did they expand the field because of that?
They expanded the field but not because of that. More countries in is more money.
They announced the group stage locations today as well. For USA they'll be staying on the west coast. LA, Seattle, and back to LA.
Some quick research says the minimum width is 70yds.
NFL width is 53yds and change.
70
-53
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~17yds to work with
Is there enough room leftover for a sideline, cameras, advertising, etc. ?
You couldn't even get into the Knicks/Lakers game for that on Saturday night. Cheapest ticket right now for the Super Bowl on Stubhub is over $5,000. You're not even close to being in the ball park.
Tickets for copa america semifinal at met life this summer are at least $1500/seat right now.
Yes.
They wouldn’t have chosen ML if it wouldn’t work. As I wrote before, I’ve been to a match there. Colombia vs Argentina
No and I didn't say that. The secondary market is all speculative right now. There are no tickets in circulation yet.
Correct. Normally, the FIFA minimum width is 70 yards, which Met Life Stadium can accommodate.
However, for the World Cup, FIFA is requiring that the field be 68 meters, roughly 74.4 yards. This will require removing 1,740 seats. MetLife has already agreed to do this as a condition of bidding. Several other WC sites must do so as well.
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