Events and Attractions

The World Cup will take over venues across North America this summer at a global scale, with matches at 16 venues across the continent. While organizers and venue operators are hard at work getting ready for this summer, the real opportunity lies in showcasing stadiums as the top spot to host future...

Amaury Sports Organisation, the French company that operates the Tour de France, is “joining the Amazon Armed Forces Cycling Classic with an eye on growing the profile of the D.C. region’s premier cycling event,” according to Drew Hansen of the WASHINGTON BUSINESS JOURNAL. The groups announced that ...

In Miami, Barry Jackson noted parking prices set by FIFA for World Cup matches at Hard Rock Stadium not only “run as high as $249.99” for a single spot, but FIFA has “jacked up the prices by $100 or more since the fall.” Parking “must be pre-purchased and fans must show proof that they have a ticket...

NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said that the plans for the 2027 NHL All-Star Weekend at UBS Arena “will be disclosed by the end of the playoffs” in June, according to Winnicki & Gross of NEWSDAY. The league “essentially knows how it wants to run” next year’s All-Star Weekend from Feb. 5-7, bu...

Soaring ticket prices for the USMNT’s first World Cup match on June 12 in L.A. have “left U.S. fans irate and potentially thousands of seats empty” six weeks before the FIFA World Cup begins when the game “should have been a sold-out celebration,” according to Rachel Bachman of the WALL STREET JOURN...

Pacers Sports & Entertainment owner Herb Simon is bringing Blake Shelton’s music bar venue Ole Red to his burgeoning mixed-use Fieldhouse District, as the organization continues to expand Indianapolis’ market size through data and real estate.

FIFA will “increase payments to teams taking part in the 2026 World Cup to almost” $900M, “citing the commercial success” of the ​expanded tournament. The FIFA Council, meeting in Vancouver ahead of the ​76th FIFA Congress, “approved a 15% increase in the resources to ⁠be distributed to all 48 parti...

Adidas has “agreed an investment” of $116.8M into the Bundesliga, where the deal is “intended to support the growth of the leagues and the development” of its 36 member clubs. The investment will be used to support the league’s “central marketing objectives and allocated according to agreements betw...

Domestic leagues “would be limited to staging one game a season in foreign countries” under FIFA proposals that “significantly raise the bar for controversial ‘international matches’ to be approved,” according to Ames & Hughes of the London GUARDIAN. Developed by a FIFA working group set up almo...

THE ATHLETIC’s Dan Sheldon noted Miami-Dade County will “provide complimentary game-day shuttles exclusively for match ticket holders traveling to Hard Rock Stadium” at the FIFA World Cup. The stadium will host four group stage matches as well as a round of 32 fixture, a quarter-final and the bronze...