{"id":195482,"date":"2026-05-18T10:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195482\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:47:14","slug":"best-sports-business-cities-no-14-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195482\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Sports Business Cities: No. 14 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia teams and permanent events drew 28.7 million fans during our study, the highest attendance-to-population ratio among the cities on the list.<\/p>\n

Home Base: The city\u2019s sports stakeholders include Aramark Sports + Entertainment, 160over90\u2019s creative hub, Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia Co., Playfly Sports and EwingCole.<\/p>\n

Coming Soon: Lincoln Financial Field will host six 2026 FIFA World Cup matches, and the NCAA 2027 and 2028 Divisions I, II and III men\u2019s lacrosse finals. Subaru Park will host the 2027 and 2028 Division I women\u2019s lacrosse finals.<\/p>\n

New to Town: The 76ers and Flyers plan to open the $2.5 billion South Philadelphia Sports Complex at the site of the former Spectrum by 2030, when the city\u2019s WNBA franchise debuts. The site\u2019s Stateside Live is days away from finishing a $20 million expansion and construction of a 5,000-person outdoor venue. The Phillies recently unveiled a $600 million renovation of Citizens Bank Park, which is hosting this summer\u2019s MLB All-Star Game.<\/p>\n

Key Numbers: The city\u2019s daily cost for lodging and meals ranges from $248 (about average for a major league market) to $310, depending on the time of year.<\/p>\n

Previous Rankings<\/p>\n

2023: #21<\/a><\/p>\n

2024 Event Hosting: #18<\/a><\/p>\n

2025 Soccer: #7<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Best Sports Business Cities No. 14 Philadelphia: The Premier League Summer Series came to Lincoln Financial Field in 2023. (Courtesy of the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau) \"\"Best Sports Business Cities No. 14 Philadelphia: The Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. (Courtesy of the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau) \"\"Best Sports Business Cities No. 14 Philadelphia: WrestleMania XL brought more than 145,000 fans over two nights to Lincoln Financial Field in 2024. (Courtesy of the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia teams and permanent events drew 28.7 million fans during our study, the highest attendance-to-population ratio among the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[86850,86851,86837,20513,26116,86838,2233,8625,11242,69,71,70,8740,33052,86852],"class_list":["post-195482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-160over90","tag-aramark-sports-and-entertainment","tag-best-sports-business-cities","tag-citizens-bank-park","tag-comcast","tag-data-and-insights","tag-fifa","tag-lincoln-financial-field","tag-ncaa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-phillies","tag-print","tag-subaru-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195482","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=195482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}