Is It Worth It Economically for US Cities to Host the World Cup?
FIFA will keep nearly all World Cup revenue while host cities pay security, transit and stadium costs, leaving U.S. hosts with an estimated $250 million shortfall.
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The biggest World Cup is here, but who gets to enjoy it?
The World Cup is here. For the first time, the tournament is happening in three countries at once: the United States, Mexico, and Canada. It’s bigger than ever, with more teams, more games, more viewers, and more money on the line. Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. This special World Cup episode of Reveal looks beyond the spectacle of the beautiful game to the organization behind it: FIFA. The gl…
How FIFA restructured the World Cup into its biggest payday ever, as host cities face a budget shortfall
FIFA will collect an estimated $8.9 billion from the 2026 World Cup while the 11 U.S. cities hosting it could face a collective shortfall of upwards of $250 million. And that’s thanks to FIFA’s restructuring of how it runs the World Cup. For most of the tournament’s history, a World Cup was run by a local organizing committee that absorbed the costs and shared in the upside. For the first time in World Cup history, that’s not the case. In the 20…
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