{"id":196388,"date":"2026-04-14T03:52:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196388\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T03:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:52:24","slug":"metlife-stadium-temporarily-changes-its-name-for-world-cup-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196388\/","title":{"rendered":"MetLife Stadium temporarily changes its name for World Cup \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re seeing big changes at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey &#8212; all in preparation for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The famous stadium is changing its name to New York New Jersey Stadium &#8211; ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup &#8212; which will be played out in stadiums across Mexico, Canada and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Chopper 4 flew over the stadium and saw the new signs going up.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA requires participating stadiums to remove pre-existing branding during the World Cup since it does not allow venues with corporate-sponsored names or logos.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, stadiums use generic city or regional names when hosting world cup games.<\/p>\n<p>The New York New Jersey Stadium will hold several World Cup matches and the July 19 final.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to catch every match and exciting moment live in Spanish on Telemundo and Peacock starting June 11!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re seeing big changes at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey &#8212; all in preparation for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5805,12541,610,17314,1066,9,11,10,14771],"class_list":{"0":"post-196388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-2026-world-cup","9":"tag-fifa-world-cup","10":"tag-local","11":"tag-metlife-stadium","12":"tag-new-jersey","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}