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Taxpayers group calls on Olivia Chow to cancel Toronto's World Cup hosting duties (headtopics.com)
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A taxpayers’ advocacy group wants Toronto’s incoming mayor to give the city’s plan to host a handful of games during the 2026 World Cup the red card. (JOANNA LAVOIE/CP24)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So where is this "tens of millions of dollars more" statement coming from? Where did you get your numbers?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doesn't pass a sniff test to me. They plan for 10 games in Canada - split between Toronto and Vancouver. BMO field has 26,000 capacity so assuming 5 games each, that's only 130,000 tickets. Sure some people will travel with non ticket holders; to counter that some will go to multiple games, and plenty of locals will want tickets. Even allowing for a long tail and seeing this as pure advertising to tourists, I cannot see how this makes a really a significant dent in revenues. That said if the cost is only 30mil then it's not particularly significant there either (the cities' budget is 16bn).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an article showing potential breakdown on cost/profits that should be coming to the city. But again, we won't know the full numbers until afterwards.