{"id":316166,"date":"2026-05-14T22:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316166\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:57:07","slug":"free-world-cup-watch-parties-in-downtown-long-beach-heres-the-schedule-eat-see-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316166\/","title":{"rendered":"Free World Cup watch parties in downtown Long Beach: Here\u2019s the schedule \u2022 Eat. See. Do."},"content":{"rendered":"

Long Beach, in collaboration with LA Galaxy, will host a series of free watch parties in downtown Long Beach for the early stages of the FIFA World Cup this summer.<\/p>\n

Starting June 12, the city will begin holding live match viewings along with various events that will include two free soccer clinics at Lincoln Park, giveaways, limited-edition merchandise offerings and appearances by current and former Galaxy players along with soccer clinics.<\/p>\n

The games will be shown on a big screen set up in Lincoln Park, said Downtown Long Beach Alliance President Austin Metoyer.<\/p>\n

LA Galaxy will host free soccer clinics at Lincoln Park on June 12 and June 19 for children aged 6 to 14. You can find more information and register for the clinics here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Traffic on Pine Avenue will be closed between Broadway and Third Street from June 12-27, while Broadway between Pine and Pacific avenues will be shut down only on the seven event days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Long Beach will not have an official FIFA Fan Zone because the city withdrew its bid following a series of talks with organizers.<\/a> That means the city\u2019s events this June will not feature FIFA\u2019s logo or the term \u201cWorld Cup Fan Zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

They will be able to show live games through the partnership with Major League Soccer\u2019s LA Galaxy.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a schedule of the games that will be shown:<\/p>\n

DATEEVENT TIME (PT)GAME(S) SHOWNKICKOFF TIMES (PT)Friday, June 125:00 PM \u2013 8:00 PMUnited States vs. Paraguay6:00 PMThursday, June 182:00 PM \u2013 8:00 PM\u00a0Canada vs. Qatar3:00 PMMexico vs. South Korea6:00 PMFriday, June 1911:00 AM \u2013 7:30 PMUnited States vs. Australia12:00 PMScotland vs. Morocco3:00 PMBrazil vs. Haiti5:30 PMSaturday, June 209:00 AM \u2013 7:00 PMNetherlands vs. Sweden10:00 AMGermany vs. Ivory Coast1:00 PMEcuador vs. Cura\u00e7ao5:00 PMThursday June 2512:00 PM \u2013 9:00 PMEcuador vs. Germany OR Curacao vs. Ivory Coast**1:00 PMJapan vs. Sweden OR *Tunisia vs. Netherlands **4:00 PMTurkey vs. United States OR *Paraguay vs. Australia**7:00 PMFriday June 2611:00 AM \u2013 10:00 PMNorway vs. France OR Senegal vs. Iraq12:00 PMUruguay vs. Spain OR Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia5:00 PMEgypt vs. Iran OR New Zealand vs. Belgium8:00 PMSaturday June 271:00 PM \u2013 9:00 PMPanama vs. England OR Croatia vs. Ghana2:00 PMColombia vs. Portugal OR DR Congo vs. Uzbekistan4:30 PMAlgeria vs. Austria OR Jordan vs. Argentina7:00 PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach, in collaboration with LA Galaxy, will host a series of free watch parties in downtown Long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-316166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}