{"id":542473,"date":"2026-07-24T20:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/542473\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:01:09","slug":"tottenham-hotspur-heads-to-new-zealand-for-match-in-front-of-likely-record-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/542473\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur heads to New Zealand for match in front of likely record crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">Tottenham Hotspur will begin a tour of New Zealand and Australia on Sunday when they play Auckland FC at Eden Park, and the match is \u201cexpected to attract the biggest crowd for a men\u2019s match in New Zealand football history.\u201d More than 36,000 tickets had been sold by Thursday night, and organizers \u201cexpect that number could top 40,000 by Sunday afternoon.\u201d The current record of 37,034 was set in 2017 for a New Zealand national game against Peru. The expected crowd \u201cunderscores the status\u201d of Tottenham in New Zealand, as the club remains \u201cone of the most popular teams, despite relative struggles in recent years\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/football\/spurs-v-auckland-fc-match-tipped-to-draw-biggest-ever-mens-football-crowd-in-new-zealand\/BGASONT3NVABJIZGXKOIMSVOVI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/football\/spurs-v-auckland-fc-match-tipped-to-draw-biggest-ever-mens-football-crowd-in-new-zealand\/BGASONT3NVABJIZGXKOIMSVOVI\/\">NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 7\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur will begin a tour of New Zealand and Australia on Sunday when they play Auckland FC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,266826],"class_list":["post-542473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}