{"id":297994,"date":"2026-05-18T10:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297994\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:27:09","slug":"best-sports-business-cities-no-20-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297994\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Sports Business Cities: No. 20 Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas\u2019 soccer r\u00e9sum\u00e9 was critical in the market\u2019s ability to lure the FIFA World Cup to North Texas: Cotton Bowl Stadium annually hosts the Dallas Cup, the nation\u2019s oldest international youth soccer tournament (11,000 participants from 30 countries), and will be home to the USL Championship Atl\u00e9tico Dallas beginning in 2027.<\/p>\n

Home base: The market\u2019s major sports stakeholders include AECOM (moved from L.A.), American Airlines, Big 12 Conference, Comerica, Conference USA, Constellation Brands\u2019 major operations, Genesco Sports Enterprises, National Football Foundation and The Marketing Arm.<\/p>\n

Coming Soon: The $3.7 billion expansion of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center is expected to be completed by April 2029, and the facility will serve as the World Cup\u2019s International Broadcast Center. A renovated Memorial Auditorium and new training center for the Dallas Wings have been delayed until 2028.<\/p>\n

Key numbers: Dallas had 184 projects (22,861 rooms) in its hotel construction pipeline at the end of March, the 19th-straight quarter the city has led all U.S. markets. <\/p>\n

Of note: In a change from our 2023 rankings, Arlington, Dallas, Fort Worth and Frisco are now viewed as separate markets.<\/p>\n

Previous Rankings<\/p>\n

2023: #1<\/a><\/p>\n

2024 Event Hosting: #22<\/a><\/p>\n

2025 Soccer: #5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas\u2019 soccer r\u00e9sum\u00e9 was critical in the market\u2019s ability to lure the FIFA World Cup to North Texas:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2485,108467,108469,102,104,103,108468,37274,39157],"class_list":["post-297994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-american-airlines-center","tag-best-sports-business-cities","tag-comerica","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-data-and-insights","tag-fifa","tag-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}