San Francisco

San Francisco was one of twelve World Cup host cities that had not published a public fan-rights plan by Human Rights Watch's 11 May Deadline, even though it went on to host Austria's 3-1 win over debutants Jordan at Levi's Stadium on 17 June .

Football's governing body maintains that all 16 host cities submitted plans privately, but San Francisco's public silence Left fans with no document to check ahead of matchday, putting it alongside the majority of hosts that treated the framework as a formality rather than the four, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Vancouver, that published openly.

World Cup group-stage resale prices fell about 37% nationally in the 60 days before kickoff, but the Bay Area market, San Francisco's ticket catchment, fell further than any other tracked host city, down 59% by 5 June against a StubHub group-stage floor of $162 .

The scale of that drop, sharper than any comparable host market despite the city's high cost of living and dense tech-sector workforce, suggests early buyers in the Bay Area priced tickets on demand assumptions that did not survive the run-up to the tournament.

Hotel occupancy fell year-on-year across most World Cup host cities in the tournament's first half, industry data published 10 July showed, with Kansas City down 24% and Vancouver down 20.9%. San Francisco was one of only three host cities, alongside Dallas and New York, to record a gain .

Revenue per room rose about 26% tournament-wide on match days, but that came mainly from higher rates rather than fuller hotels, which makes San Francisco's result distinct: an actual rise in rooms sold, not just in what hosts charged for them.