{"id":155536,"date":"2026-08-04T18:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/155536\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:48:27","slug":"world-cup-match-days-kicked-up-spending-in-toronto-and-vancouver-visa-data-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/155536\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup match days kicked up spending in Toronto and Vancouver: Visa data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 New Visa data suggests the FIFA World Cup brought a rise in spending among consumers in Canadian host cities.<\/p>\n<p>The credit card company says match day spending rose as much as 24.6 per cent in Toronto and 12.7 per cent in Vancouver, when compared with the same days a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto saw the largest game day increase in spending when Germany took on Ivory Coast on June 20, while Vancouver\u2019s peak came when Australia faced Turkey on June 13.<\/p>\n<p>When Canada played Qatar in a group-stage match in Vancouver on June 18, there was a 4.9 per cent increase in spending in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver and Toronto hosted a collective 13 games during the World Cup, which wrapped up last month.<\/p>\n<p>Data previously released by payment processing company Moneris suggested Toronto saw a modest boost in spending during the first weeks of the tournament but found it paled in comparison to spending during Taylor Swift\u2019s Eras tour concerts in the city.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785869307_552_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 New Visa data suggests the FIFA World Cup brought a rise in spending among consumers in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[525,3783,49,48],"class_list":["post-155536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-business","tag-retail","tag-sports","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}