Overview
- Host committees in both cities told fans without match tickets not to come to stadium areas on game days, urging them to celebrate elsewhere.
- Tailgating and lot access near the venues will be restricted to people who hold a valid match ticket and a pre-purchased parking pass sold through FIFA.
- Organizers are setting up layered ticket checks that start well outside the gates, with soft screenings leading to a fixed hard security perimeter.
- Parking capacity near stadiums will be cut to make room for security and operations, including about 5,000 spaces at Gillette Stadium with additional satellite lots.
- Fans without tickets are being directed to official Fan Fests such as Philadelphia’s free, pedestrian Lemon Hill site, a shift officials say helps avoid gate breaches seen at past major matches.