{"id":287732,"date":"2026-05-28T16:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287732\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:38:29","slug":"england-warm-up-match-in-tampa-expected-to-draw-sparse-crowd-ahead-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287732\/","title":{"rendered":"England warm-up match in Tampa expected to draw sparse crowd ahead of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">England \u201ccould be playing in front of more than 50,000 empty seats for their first warm-up match\u201d ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, according to Tom Morgan of the London TELEGRAPH. Only \u201c13,000 tickets have been sold in total for the fixture against New Zealand next week\u201d at the 69,000-seat Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. The cheapest tickets have been priced at $72 &#8212; \u201csignificantly less than prices at the tournament\u201d which begins on June 11. So far \u201c12,000 tickets have been purchased for the second friendly against Costa Rica\u201d in a 25,000-seater stadium in Orlando. But England fans \u201cappear to be saving their dollars for the main event\u201d which is by far <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/26\/2026-fifa-world-cup-costs-soar-for-usmnt-fans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/26\/2026-fifa-world-cup-costs-soar-for-usmnt-fans\/\">the most expensive World Cup in history<\/a>. As reported by the Daily Mail and The Times, \u201conly 1,500 official England Supporters Travel Club members\u201d are expected to go to the New Zealand match (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2026\/05\/27\/england-opening-world-cup-match-us-50000-empty-seats-ticket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2026\/05\/27\/england-opening-world-cup-match-us-50000-empty-seats-ticket\/\">London TELEGRAPH, 5\/27<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England \u201ccould be playing in front of more than 50,000 empty seats for their first warm-up match\u201d ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2062,135,137,136,65798,9611],"class_list":["post-287732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-soccer","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-ticketing","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}