{"id":287936,"date":"2026-05-28T19:29:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287936\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:29:39","slug":"englands-world-cup-tuneup-in-tampa-could-have-50000-empty-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287936\/","title":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s World Cup tuneup in Tampa could have 50,000 empty seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the World Cup starting next month, many of the teams will be playing tuneup games before the competition commences.<\/p>\n<p>In Tampa, England could be playing before an intimate collection of fans.<\/p>\n<p>Per the Telegraph (via Sports Business Journal), the England-New Zealand match to be played on June 6 <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/28\/england-warm-up-match-in-tampa-expected-to-draw-sparse-crowd-ahead-of-world-cup\/?issueId=YTMNO7NFINFFLBS7NTRFZ6QDPA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">could have more than 50,000 empty seats<\/a> at Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>So far, only 13,000 tickets have been sold. The cheapest tickets prices are $72. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an idea: Slash the prices. Make it cheap it get in. If nothing else, it could attract folks who aren\u2019t as interested in soccer as they could be, after attending a match.<\/p>\n<p>England will have another so-called \u201cfriendly\u201d on June 10 in Orlando. In the 25,000-seat venue, only 12,000 tickets have been sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the World Cup starting next month, many of the teams will be playing tuneup games before the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-287936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287936","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=287936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}