{"id":16034,"date":"2025-06-20T01:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T01:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/club-world-cup-more-than-400000-empty-seats-so-far\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T01:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T01:47:22","slug":"club-world-cup-more-than-400000-empty-seats-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/club-world-cup-more-than-400000-empty-seats-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Club World Cup: More than 400,000 empty seats so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">More than 400,000 (423,004) seats have been left empty during the opening round of Club World Cup group matches in the United States.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stadiums have been 56.8% full, with more than half a million (556,369) spectators attending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nine stadiums have been used for the first 16 matches of the tournament, with a combined capacity of 979,373.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The expanded tournament is being treated as a dress rehearsal for the international men&#8217;s World Cup next summer, which will be held in the USA, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Of the 16 matches played so far, half of the matches have seen attendances below 50% of the capacity of the stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The lowest attended game was South Africa&#8217;s Mamelodi Sundowns win over South Korean side Ulsan HD in front of 3,412 spectators at Inter &amp; Co Stadium in Florida.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c74z8v15g8eo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 400,000 (423,004) seats have been left empty during the opening round of Club World Cup group matches in the United States. Stadiums have been 56.8% full, with more than half a million (556,369) spectators attending. Nine stadiums have been used for the first 16 matches of the tournament, with a combined capacity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16036,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034\/revisions\/16036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}