World-famous Manchester United is coming again to Chicago. And the Pink Devils aren’t the one English crew set to play this summer season at Soldier Discipline.
The English Premier League introduced Sunday that Chicago can be considered one of three cities to host Summer season Sequence 2025 doubleheaders. On Wednesday, July 30, at Soldier Discipline, West Ham United is scheduled to face Everton, adopted by Manchester United vs. AFC Bournemouth.
Different venues to host doubleheaders through the four-team, round-robin preseason match are New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium (July 26) and Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta (Aug. 3).
Ticket registration for the matches is open at www.premierleague.com/summerseries, and normal gross sales will launch at 9 a.m. on March 14 by way of Ticketmaster. Costs start at $77.
“We’re delighted to be bringing the Premier League Summer season Sequence again to the US. We all know from our earlier match and Premier League Mornings Dwell occasions that we and our golf equipment have extremely loyal and passionate followers within the U.S. who rise up early to comply with their groups through the season,” Premier League CEO Richard Masters mentioned in a information launch. “In these 4 golf equipment now we have world-class gamers and managers who will undoubtedly give supporters a incredible Premier League expertise simply earlier than the season begins.”
Regardless of a downturn lately – and the opportunity of ending behind the three golf equipment accompanying them to the US this summer season – Manchester United is England’s greatest model stateside and one of many high attracts worldwide.
Chicago has seen that firsthand, because the 20-time English champions have made three visits to Soldier Discipline this century, together with a memorable 3-1 defeat of the Fire in 2011 in entrance of an introduced crowd of 61,308. Manchester United final visited Chicago in 2015 when it misplaced 2-0 to Paris-Saint Germain, and in addition performed Bayern Munich to a scoreless draw earlier than dropping in penalties in a dour 2004 match.
These friendlies, albeit a crapshoot when it comes to their quality and variety of star gamers taking part, have a key position in partaking U.S. clients. Regardless of realizing the video games are basically meaningless, followers who don’t have the chance to journey to England to see their groups can watch them nearer to dwelling. Importantly for the golf equipment concerned and occasion organizers, the followers are opening their wallets to witness warmups earlier than the true season begins.
As well as, the Premier League and its golf equipment have used different strategies to penetrate the American market, together with working with broadcast associate NBC Sports activities to deliver non-match occasions to large cities. Final fall, Chicago hosted its first Premier League Mornings Live, a two-day fan fest in Lincoln Park that includes stay studio broadcasts and different ancillary actions.
Based on the Premier League, greater than 15,000 folks attended the fan fest.
