According to research from Crypto Casinos Ltd, Bayern Munich’s Allianz Arena ranked as the No. 3 best venue to watch a game among stadiums in use for EURO 2024 and Copa America 2024:
Revealed: the best places to the watch soccer this summer with Arlington, Texas and Leipzig, Germany offering fans the most bang for their buck at the Copa America and Euro 2024
—Leipzig came out top as the best place to watch soccer this summer across the Copa America and Euro 2024 host cities.
—Arlington, Texas was ranked as the best place to watch the Copa America from among the USA’s host cities.
—Munich and East Rutherford, New Jersey ranked top for being the safest locations to visit.
—Frankfurt in Germany turned out to have the best overall air quality due to lower air pollution followed by Leipzig, Dortmund, Berlin, Munich and Stuttgart, Gelsenkirchen, Dusseldorf and Hamburg, with Kansas City in Kansas placed 10th out of 24 locations as the best US host city for air quality.
Inglewood in California and both Miami Gardens and Orlando in Florida were ranked as the worst places to watch soccer this summer out of the 24 locations assessed, with Dortmund the worst host city in Germany for Euro 2024.
Arlington, Texas is the best host city to watch soccer this summer as the Copa America takes place in the USA.
However, it comes fourth when the European soccer hotspots of Germany are counted as Euro 2024 takes place alongside the tournament that will see Argentina’s Lionel Messi seek to defend his country’s victory at the 2021 Copa America after winning the World Cup in 2022.
This is according to Crypto Casinos Ltd comprehensive index on the best places to watch soccer on either side of the Atlantic this summer as two of the biggest tournaments in the game take place in Germany and the USA.
So…how did this all get stacked ranked, let’s take a look:
After feeding in data on temperature, rainfall, stadium sizes, cost of food and drink, and the rates of crime, pollution and traffic, Leipzig came out on top as the best place to watch international soccer this summer.
The eastern German city was ranked as the cheapest city to get a meal, the second most affordable city to enjoy a mainstream, domestic beer, and was also second for pollution levels and traffic, while being middle of the ground for temperature and rainfall – 62 fahrenheit (17 celsius) and only nine days of rain on average for June, respectively. That’s pretty much perfect for playing soccer in the summer.
However, heat didn’t stop Arlington from reigning over the other US host cities with its 80,000-seater AT&T Stadium, the second-largest venue to be used by either the European Championship and Copa America this summer.
Arlington also came in fifth for pollution levels, the best of all the US host cites, and was midtable for the costs of food and beer.
Cologne and Glendale are the best places to eat and drink at Euro 2024 and the Copa America this summer – but German host cities are around 23% cheaper on average.
Now for the really important info — beer prices:
Germany’s most expensive beers could be found in Hamburg, Dortmund and Frankfurt, the cities that were also home to some of the priciest meals, albeit with each location trading places depending on whether they were being judged for food or drink.
Dortmund and Hamburg’s beers came in at $5.35 (€5.00) with prices in Frankfurt counting at $5.20 (€4.86) although these prices were only above the cheapest rates for beer found in the USA in Las Vegas, Houston and Glendale.
For food, Frankfurt was the most expensive German venue with its meal costing $19.28 (€18.01) followed by Dortmund at a rate of $18.21 (€17.01) and $17.15 (€16.02) in Munich, just ahead of Hamburg where the $16.07 (€15.01) cost of a meal matched what fans could pay in Dusseldorf and Stuttgart too.
When it came to food, the USA was actually far more competitive than was the case with beers, with Glendale coming second across both tournaments for the cost of a meal behind Leipzig, and five other cities – Houston, Kansas City (Kansas), East Rutherford, Kansas City (Missouri) and Austin – priced cheaper than the two most expensive cities in Germany.
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