Huge crowd expected at Commonwealth Stadium for Canada Soccer match in Edmonton
The Canadian men’s national soccer team is prepping to play a FIFA World Cup tune-up match in Edmonton, and it’s looking like a massive crowd will take it in.
The 56,302-seat Commonwealth Stadium will play host to Canada as they take to the pitch in an international friendly against Uzbekistan on June 1. If he is healthy, Edmonton native Alphonso Davies is expected to be part of the Canadian club.
It looks like the buzz around the World Cup has picked up in Edmonton, as a total of 36,000 tickets have already been sold for the match, more than a month before it’s set to be played.
That’s already on track to be the third-highest attendance for a soccer game at Commonwealth Stadium.
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The only other soccer games to surpass this mark in Edmonton are 2022’s World Cup qualifiers against Mexico (44,212) and Costa Rica (48,806). There is still plenty of time for Edmonton soccer fans to hit both of those marks.
Most of the tickets purchased appear to be in the lower bowl, but there are still plenty of seats available in both the lower and upper sections of the stadium.
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As of Thursday, the cheapest lower-bowl tickets are sitting at $60, while the cheapest upper-bowl tickets are $53 on Ticketmaster.
The match against Uzbekistan is the first time that the Canadian men’s national team has played in the Alberta capital since 2022, when they defeated Mexico during the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.
This will be the first of two warm-up matches for Team Canada ahead of the World Cup, with the other coming on June 5 against Ireland in Montreal.
Canada will play FIFA World Cup games on home soil for the first-time ever later this year. Their group stage play will begin in Toronto at BMO Field on June 12 against Bosnia and Herzegovina.
They will then move west to Vancouver’s BC Place for matches against Qatar and Switzerland on June 18 and 24, respectively.