According to a 2024 Axios story Lincoln Financial Field will be called “Philadelphia Stadium” because “only official sponsors of the FIFA World Cup can display their corporate names during the tournament.”
Footage has emerged of these changes being made at nearby MetLife Stadium, or as it is to be known “New York New Jersey Stadium.”
No American Stadium retained their name for the tournament because all of them are corporately sponsored. Only BC Place, Estadio Monterrey, and Estadio Azteca are able to display their names for the World Cup.
It’s unlikely that Lincoln Financial Field will remodel for the World Cup until April 26th. According to the official Lincoln Financial Field schedule the two events before the World Cup are Monster Jam and Monster Energy AMA Supercross. (It’s rare that you get two monsters in one sentence in earnest)
Lincoln Financial, the sponsor of the football stadium, will likely want to advertise their “new fixed indexed annuities” to the people who paid to see “12,000lb trucks stand on two wheels and fly through the air.”
The stadium crew has 49 days to take the field from being suited for “the world’s elite off-road motorcycle racers as they clash in high-flying stadium battles” to being compliant with FIFA’s field standards.
This June soccer fans will not be reminded of whatever Lincoln Financial does. They will take the Broad Street Line to “Philadelphia Stadium!” It sounds like the name of a stadium in an off-brand video game. Likely sometime in May the words “Lincoln Finacial Field” will not be displayed in lights on the outside.
The Athletic reported NJTransit is “preparing to charge riders more than $100 for round-trip tickets between New York Penn Station and the Meadowlands.” It’ll be worth watching to see if SEPTA does anything similar.
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