{"id":309422,"date":"2026-05-26T17:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/309422\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:16:07","slug":"sbj-ranks-arlington-as-no-24-best-sports-business-city-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/309422\/","title":{"rendered":"SBJ Ranks Arlington as No. 24 Best Sports Business City in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published on May 26, 2026<\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n
\n \"Aerial <\/p>\n

By the Office of Communication<\/p>\n

Sports Business Journal has named Arlington the No. 24 Best Sports Business City<\/a> on its 2026 list.<\/p>\n

Arlington is home to the Bowling International Training & 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&T Stadium since 2010); 2025 SMITE World Championship at Esports Stadium Arlington; 2025 Convention, Sports & Entertainment Facilities Conference; and next spring\u2019s Stadium Managers Association annual seminar.<\/p>\n

The City\u2019s professional sports teams, venues and other entertainment destinations help draw a combined 16 million attendance. And this summer, the world-class AT&T Stadium in Arlington will host nine matches for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the highest number of matches for any host city.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on May 26, 2026 By the Office of Communication Sports Business Journal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-309422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309422","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=309422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}