{"id":298003,"date":"2026-05-18T10:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/298003\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:36:07","slug":"best-sports-business-cities-no-24-arlington-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/298003\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Sports Business Cities: No. 24 Arlington, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">AT&amp;T Stadium, Globe Life Field, Choctaw Stadium and Texas Live are just a Dak Prescott throw away from one another in Arlington, Texas, which sits midway between No. 49 Fort Worth and No. 20 Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">AT&amp;T Stadium will host nine matches for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the highest number of matches for any host city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">Home Base: The city is home to the Bowling International Training &amp; Research Center (the hub for the United States Bowling Congress); the UFL; and the Western Athletic Conference (moved from Denver in 2022). Arlington\u2019s event r\u00e9sum\u00e9 is extensive: Big 12 Football Championship (since 2017, through the 2030 season); Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic (at AT&amp;T Stadium since 2010); 2025 SMITE World Championship at Esports Stadium Arlington; 2025 Convention, Sports &amp; Entertainment Facilities Conference; and next spring\u2019s Stadium Managers Association annual seminar. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">Key Number: The city\u2019s teams drew a combined 16 million attendance in our study.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Rankings<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2023: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/03\/20\/In-Depth\/best-sports-business-cities-dallas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/03\/20\/In-Depth\/best-sports-business-cities-dallas\/\">#1<\/a> (with the Dallas listing)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2024 Event Hosting: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/03\/18\/bsbc-arlington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/03\/18\/bsbc-arlington\/\">#6<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2025 Soccer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/26\/best-sports-business-cities-soccer-no-5-dallas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/26\/best-sports-business-cities-soccer-no-5-dallas\/\">#5<\/a> (with the Dallas listing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T Stadium, Globe Life Field, Choctaw Stadium and Texas Live are just a Dak Prescott throw away from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,8079,108467,315,108468,37274,428,1771,39157],"class_list":["post-298003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-att-stadium","tag-best-sports-business-cities","tag-big-12","tag-data-and-insights","tag-fifa","tag-globe-life-field","tag-ncaa","tag-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298003","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=298003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}