World CupThe Premier League’s spectacle is as big as it gets, but its players know the World Cup dwarfs it allOur reporter's visit to London showed why English soccer is so popular not just there, but in the United States. Some players there could star in the World Cup, including in Philadelphia.Jonathan Tannenwald Opinion14 events to look forward to in Philly this year that aren’t the World Cup or the 250thStephanie Farr | Columnist Cities are charging World Cup fans to attend FIFA fan festivals. Philly will not be one of them.Kerith Gabriel Noahkai Banks knows he’s getting a lot of USMNT hype, but he isn’t thinking about the World Cup yetJonathan Tannenwald Mark McKenzie’s plan to crack the USMNT’s World Cup roster? Sticking to what’s in his ‘control.’Kerith Gabriel AdvertisementBrenden Aaronson is on a hot streak with Leeds United at an ideal time for his World Cup hopesTo start this World Cup year, The Inquirer visited the Medford native in England. And as it turned out, we were there on the day he scored a big goal in the Premier League against Manchester United.Jonathan Tannenwald SEPTA’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad yearHow SEPTA survived 2025 and what commuters can expect in 2026.Thomas Fitzgerald To kick-start a generation of city kids playing soccer, it will take more than just a place to play"Leaving a legacy" has been a catchphrase ahead of the World Cup. But some say what that looks like for children in Philly has to be more than a multitude of mini-pitches scattered across the city. Kerith Gabriel ‘Sibling’ Liberty Bell will ring on Cherry Street Pier to celebrate New Year’s EveThe bell — which features a replica of the original bell’s famed crack, as well as the functionality its sibling lacks — will be on-hand for a pair of ticketed New Year’s Eve events on the pier. Dugan Arnett SEPTA’s board approves 2-year contract with transit agency’s largest unionTransport Workers United Local 234 voted to approve a new two-year contract with SEPTA that will raise wages, expand health benefits, and bolster the union's pension fund.Henry Savage and Robert Moran Middletown Township welcomes first full-service hotel ahead of major tourism events in DelcoDelaware County stakeholders say the Hilton marks an important expansion of the collar county’s tourism economy, which is only growing.Denali Sagner The USMNT, USWNT, and your kid’s youth team are all different. U.S. Soccer is fine with that.U.S. Soccer sporting director Matt Crocker's grand plan for a "U.S. Way" sounds at first like talking down from the top. In fact, there's a lot less of it than there used to be.Jonathan Tannenwald Here’s what ticket prices are looking like for World Cup games in Philly following FIFA’s latest presaleFIFA opened the lottery for its latest ticket presale on Thursday. It showed tickets, priced in the hundreds, for all 72 group-stage matches, including the five headed to Philly.Kerith Gabriel Philly’s Greyhound station gets city’s OK to be resurrectedA plan to refurbish and reuse the abandoned Greyhound terminal for intercity buses came together quickly.Thomas Fitzgerald These 20 Philadelphia neighborhoods will have painted Liberty Bell replicas for 2026Designed by local artists for Philly's celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary in 2026, the painted bells depict the histories, heroes, cultures, and traditions of Philly neighborhoods.Mike Newall OpinionAle Ayiti: Philly Haitian Americans celebrate a rare World Cup bidAs the Haiti v. Brazil match in Philadelphia was announced this week, Haitian community members promised jubilation, tears and rara, writes Sabrina Vourvoulias.Sabrina Vourvoulias | Columnist Your next chance to get FIFA World Cup tickets starts ThursdayThe next opportunity to buy 2026 FIFA World Cup tickets starts this Thursday. Here is everything you need to know to apply for the ticket lottery.Henry Savage OpinionThe Trump regime murders that aren’t on video | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, troubled Mount Airy Lodge is a perfect Trump venue.Will Bunch | Columnist There are 72 group stage games in next summer’s FIFA World Cup. Here are 10 of the best.The countries, players, dates, and times to know for some of the tournament's marquee matchups.Jonathan Tannenwald Ranking the five World Cup group stage matches headed to Philly next summerHere's how Croatia, Curaçao, Ecuador, Ghana, Haiti, and Ivory Coast stack up against superpowers Brazil and France. Jonathan Tannenwald See more storiesAdvertisement
The Premier League’s spectacle is as big as it gets, but its players know the World Cup dwarfs it allOur reporter's visit to London showed why English soccer is so popular not just there, but in the United States. Some players there could star in the World Cup, including in Philadelphia.Jonathan Tannenwald
The Premier League’s spectacle is as big as it gets, but its players know the World Cup dwarfs it allOur reporter's visit to London showed why English soccer is so popular not just there, but in the United States. Some players there could star in the World Cup, including in Philadelphia.Jonathan Tannenwald
Opinion14 events to look forward to in Philly this year that aren’t the World Cup or the 250thStephanie Farr | Columnist
Opinion14 events to look forward to in Philly this year that aren’t the World Cup or the 250thStephanie Farr | Columnist
Cities are charging World Cup fans to attend FIFA fan festivals. Philly will not be one of them.Kerith Gabriel
Cities are charging World Cup fans to attend FIFA fan festivals. Philly will not be one of them.Kerith Gabriel
Noahkai Banks knows he’s getting a lot of USMNT hype, but he isn’t thinking about the World Cup yetJonathan Tannenwald
Noahkai Banks knows he’s getting a lot of USMNT hype, but he isn’t thinking about the World Cup yetJonathan Tannenwald
Mark McKenzie’s plan to crack the USMNT’s World Cup roster? Sticking to what’s in his ‘control.’Kerith Gabriel
Mark McKenzie’s plan to crack the USMNT’s World Cup roster? Sticking to what’s in his ‘control.’Kerith Gabriel
Brenden Aaronson is on a hot streak with Leeds United at an ideal time for his World Cup hopesTo start this World Cup year, The Inquirer visited the Medford native in England. And as it turned out, we were there on the day he scored a big goal in the Premier League against Manchester United.Jonathan Tannenwald
Brenden Aaronson is on a hot streak with Leeds United at an ideal time for his World Cup hopesTo start this World Cup year, The Inquirer visited the Medford native in England. And as it turned out, we were there on the day he scored a big goal in the Premier League against Manchester United.Jonathan Tannenwald
SEPTA’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad yearHow SEPTA survived 2025 and what commuters can expect in 2026.Thomas Fitzgerald
SEPTA’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad yearHow SEPTA survived 2025 and what commuters can expect in 2026.Thomas Fitzgerald
To kick-start a generation of city kids playing soccer, it will take more than just a place to play"Leaving a legacy" has been a catchphrase ahead of the World Cup. But some say what that looks like for children in Philly has to be more than a multitude of mini-pitches scattered across the city. Kerith Gabriel
To kick-start a generation of city kids playing soccer, it will take more than just a place to play"Leaving a legacy" has been a catchphrase ahead of the World Cup. But some say what that looks like for children in Philly has to be more than a multitude of mini-pitches scattered across the city. Kerith Gabriel
‘Sibling’ Liberty Bell will ring on Cherry Street Pier to celebrate New Year’s EveThe bell — which features a replica of the original bell’s famed crack, as well as the functionality its sibling lacks — will be on-hand for a pair of ticketed New Year’s Eve events on the pier. Dugan Arnett
‘Sibling’ Liberty Bell will ring on Cherry Street Pier to celebrate New Year’s EveThe bell — which features a replica of the original bell’s famed crack, as well as the functionality its sibling lacks — will be on-hand for a pair of ticketed New Year’s Eve events on the pier. Dugan Arnett
SEPTA’s board approves 2-year contract with transit agency’s largest unionTransport Workers United Local 234 voted to approve a new two-year contract with SEPTA that will raise wages, expand health benefits, and bolster the union's pension fund.Henry Savage and Robert Moran
SEPTA’s board approves 2-year contract with transit agency’s largest unionTransport Workers United Local 234 voted to approve a new two-year contract with SEPTA that will raise wages, expand health benefits, and bolster the union's pension fund.Henry Savage and Robert Moran
Middletown Township welcomes first full-service hotel ahead of major tourism events in DelcoDelaware County stakeholders say the Hilton marks an important expansion of the collar county’s tourism economy, which is only growing.Denali Sagner
Middletown Township welcomes first full-service hotel ahead of major tourism events in DelcoDelaware County stakeholders say the Hilton marks an important expansion of the collar county’s tourism economy, which is only growing.Denali Sagner
The USMNT, USWNT, and your kid’s youth team are all different. U.S. Soccer is fine with that.U.S. Soccer sporting director Matt Crocker's grand plan for a "U.S. Way" sounds at first like talking down from the top. In fact, there's a lot less of it than there used to be.Jonathan Tannenwald
The USMNT, USWNT, and your kid’s youth team are all different. U.S. Soccer is fine with that.U.S. Soccer sporting director Matt Crocker's grand plan for a "U.S. Way" sounds at first like talking down from the top. In fact, there's a lot less of it than there used to be.Jonathan Tannenwald
Here’s what ticket prices are looking like for World Cup games in Philly following FIFA’s latest presaleFIFA opened the lottery for its latest ticket presale on Thursday. It showed tickets, priced in the hundreds, for all 72 group-stage matches, including the five headed to Philly.Kerith Gabriel
Here’s what ticket prices are looking like for World Cup games in Philly following FIFA’s latest presaleFIFA opened the lottery for its latest ticket presale on Thursday. It showed tickets, priced in the hundreds, for all 72 group-stage matches, including the five headed to Philly.Kerith Gabriel
Philly’s Greyhound station gets city’s OK to be resurrectedA plan to refurbish and reuse the abandoned Greyhound terminal for intercity buses came together quickly.Thomas Fitzgerald
Philly’s Greyhound station gets city’s OK to be resurrectedA plan to refurbish and reuse the abandoned Greyhound terminal for intercity buses came together quickly.Thomas Fitzgerald
These 20 Philadelphia neighborhoods will have painted Liberty Bell replicas for 2026Designed by local artists for Philly's celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary in 2026, the painted bells depict the histories, heroes, cultures, and traditions of Philly neighborhoods.Mike Newall
These 20 Philadelphia neighborhoods will have painted Liberty Bell replicas for 2026Designed by local artists for Philly's celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary in 2026, the painted bells depict the histories, heroes, cultures, and traditions of Philly neighborhoods.Mike Newall
OpinionAle Ayiti: Philly Haitian Americans celebrate a rare World Cup bidAs the Haiti v. Brazil match in Philadelphia was announced this week, Haitian community members promised jubilation, tears and rara, writes Sabrina Vourvoulias.Sabrina Vourvoulias | Columnist
OpinionAle Ayiti: Philly Haitian Americans celebrate a rare World Cup bidAs the Haiti v. Brazil match in Philadelphia was announced this week, Haitian community members promised jubilation, tears and rara, writes Sabrina Vourvoulias.Sabrina Vourvoulias | Columnist
Your next chance to get FIFA World Cup tickets starts ThursdayThe next opportunity to buy 2026 FIFA World Cup tickets starts this Thursday. Here is everything you need to know to apply for the ticket lottery.Henry Savage
Your next chance to get FIFA World Cup tickets starts ThursdayThe next opportunity to buy 2026 FIFA World Cup tickets starts this Thursday. Here is everything you need to know to apply for the ticket lottery.Henry Savage
OpinionThe Trump regime murders that aren’t on video | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, troubled Mount Airy Lodge is a perfect Trump venue.Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionThe Trump regime murders that aren’t on video | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, troubled Mount Airy Lodge is a perfect Trump venue.Will Bunch | Columnist
There are 72 group stage games in next summer’s FIFA World Cup. Here are 10 of the best.The countries, players, dates, and times to know for some of the tournament's marquee matchups.Jonathan Tannenwald
There are 72 group stage games in next summer’s FIFA World Cup. Here are 10 of the best.The countries, players, dates, and times to know for some of the tournament's marquee matchups.Jonathan Tannenwald
Ranking the five World Cup group stage matches headed to Philly next summerHere's how Croatia, Curaçao, Ecuador, Ghana, Haiti, and Ivory Coast stack up against superpowers Brazil and France. Jonathan Tannenwald
Ranking the five World Cup group stage matches headed to Philly next summerHere's how Croatia, Curaçao, Ecuador, Ghana, Haiti, and Ivory Coast stack up against superpowers Brazil and France. Jonathan Tannenwald
