{"id":51201,"date":"2026-07-09T03:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/51201\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T03:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:36:24","slug":"atlantas-free-fifa-fan-festival-extending-hours-for-its-world-cup-semifinal-match-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/51201\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta&#8217;s free FIFA Fan Festival extending hours for its World Cup semifinal match celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta is hosting one more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/atlanta\/tag\/world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FIFA Men&#8217;s World Cup<\/a> match at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, and the city is going all out to celebrate the fans and the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/atlanta\/news\/atlantas-free-fifa-fan-festival-opens-at-centennial-olympic-park-with-live-music-watch-parties-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FIFA Fan Festival Atlanta<\/a> organizers announced that they are extending the festival&#8217;s operating hours on July 14 and 15 as a thank-you to the fans who have come out to cheer on their teams.<\/p>\n<p>More than 453,000 fans have visited the festival at Atlanta&#8217;s Centennial Olympic Park in its 16 days of operation, enjoying the matches, entertainment, and local food.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gettyimages-2281186746.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"FIFA Fan Festival 2026 - Atlanta, GA \" height=\"414\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A General view during FIFA Fan Festival 2026 at Centennial Olympic Park on June 11, 2026, in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>                Prince Williams \/ Getty Images \/ PRINCE WILLIAMS 25<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, July 14, the FIFA Fan Fest will be open from 1 to 10:30 p.m. ahead of the first semi-final match. Following the match, organizers say the festival will turn into a special celebration featuring a performance by Atlanta&#8217;s own Ludacris as well as other guests and programming.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Atlanta hosts its semifinal match, and the city is pulling out the stops with what organizers describe as a spectacular finale featuring tributes to Atlanta&#8217;s role as a World Cup Host City and special guests.<\/p>\n<p>More details about the performers and times will be announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The free general admission for both days is sold out, but the festival is offering a limited number of Evening Celebration general admission tickets both days, which will allow access to the celebration starting at 6 p.m. Those free tickets will be released on Friday, but organizers warn that admission will be on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can also purchase <a href=\"https:\/\/fifafanfest.wrstbnd.io\/p\/fifa\/atl26\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">General Admission Plus or VIP tickets<\/a>, which start at $45 and $225, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta is hosting one more FIFA Men&#8217;s World Cup match at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, and the city is going&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20951],"tags":[6323,3622,284],"class_list":["post-51201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mercedes-benz","tag-atlanta","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}