{"id":170781,"date":"2026-04-20T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170781\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:59:14","slug":"philadelphia-to-offer-free-transportation-from-world-cup-games-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170781\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia to offer free transportation from World Cup games this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PHILADELPHIA,The Philadelphia host committee for this summer\u2019s World Cup has \u201csecured an agreement for fans to receive free travel when leaving Lincoln Financial Field via the city\u2019s transit system.\u201d FIFA via Getty Images <\/p>\n

The Philadelphia host committee for this summer\u2019s World Cup has \u201csecured an agreement for fans to receive free travel when leaving Lincoln Financial Field via the city\u2019s transit system.\u201d That system, SEPTA, last week revealed that it \u201cwould be keeping fares consistent with ordinary prices during the World Cup,\u201d meaning passengers \u201cwill be asked to pay $2.90.\u201d Organizers say \u201ccomplimentary rides home from NRG Station will begin at half-time and continue for two hours following the end of each match.\u201d Lincoln Financial Field will host five group-stage games and a July 4 Round of 16 game. Headlines over the past fortnight \u201chave been dominated by comparatively sky-high prices for transit to and from World Cup games\u201d in Foxborough<\/a> and New Jersey<\/a>. Philadelphia Soccer 2026 CEO Meg Kane said that free travel on egress from the stadium \u201chas been made possible due to funding provided by Airbnb,\u201d a FIFA sponsor which is providing an additional $5M \u201cworth of funding for initiatives to support the tournament across host cities\u201d (THE ATHLETIC, 4\/20<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia host committee for this summer\u2019s World Cup has \u201csecured an agreement for fans to receive free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,2236],"class_list":{"0":"post-170781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news","11":"tag-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}