{"id":12940,"date":"2025-06-28T11:58:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T15:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/club-world-cup-million-empty-seats-in-group-stage\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T11:58:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T15:58:35","slug":"club-world-cup-million-empty-seats-in-group-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/club-world-cup-million-empty-seats-in-group-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Club World Cup: Million Empty Seats in Group Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Uneven Assistance in the Club World Cup<\/h2>\n\n\nThe group stage of the Club World Cup has revealed a worrying statistic: one million empty seats in the stadiums during the 48 matches played so far, just one year before the United States hosts the 2026 World Cup.\n\nNine teams qualified for the round of 16 from Europe, along with four from Brazil and one each from Major League Soccer, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia.\n\nApproximately 56.7% of the announced public capacity was filled for the 48 group stage matches, which included crowds of 3,412 and 6,730 in Orlando, Florida; 5,282 and 8,239 in Cincinnati. FIFA did not provide specific capacities for the tournament despite repeated requests.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0628%2Fr1512287_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nThe total announced attendance was 1.67 million spectators out of a capacity of 2.95 million, with an average of 34,746 per match.\n\nOnly 44.9% filled for five matches at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, host of next year&#8217;s World Cup final, and 50% at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where the 1994 championship match was played.\n\nAmong other 2026 venues, 81.8% of the capacity was filled in Miami Gardens, Florida, 61.6% in Philadelphia, 52% in Seattle, and 44.3% in Atlanta.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The tournament&#8217;s appetite speaks for itself: fans from 168 countries have already bought tickets&#8230; a clear sign of anticipation and global reach.<\/p>\n<cite>FIFA<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe 12 televised games with English commentary on TNT, TBS and truTV averaged 360,000 viewers through Monday, including 409,000 for seven games on nights and weekends.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uneven Assistance in the Club World Cup The group stage of the Club World Cup has revealed a worrying statistic: one million empty seats in the stadiums during the 48 matches played so far, just one year before the United States hosts the 2026 World Cup. Nine teams qualified for the round of 16 from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[136,787,957,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-12940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-attendance","9":"tag-club-world-cup","10":"tag-fifa","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}