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Signed, sealed and delivered: The World Cup is a full-go in Foxboro.<\/p>\n
The Foxboro Select Board has signed off on an event license for the premier soccer tournament to come to Gillette Stadium, to be rebranded as \u201cBoston Stadium,\u201d in June.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese matches will bring an excitement that this town has never seen,\u201d Police Chief Michael Grace said moments before the Select Board voted to grant the license Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Grace\u2019s upbeat tone came weeks after the police chief slammed the Boston Soccer 2026 nonprofit host committee for having a \u201cfailed strategy\u201d in meeting the town\u2019s public safety needs for the World Cup to go on smoothly in the suburban town.<\/p>\n
But all of that is history, now. Boston Soccer 2026 and Kraft Sports & Entertainment, which operates Gillette Stadium, have agreed to cover all of Foxboro\u2019s $7.8 million request to fund security personnel and equipment.<\/p>\n
Gillette is set to host seven matches \u2013 five in the group stage and two knockout games \u2013 between June 13 and July 9. The World Cup is considered a SEAR 1 event, the highest risk level for public gatherings in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe security planning that\u2019s been ongoing for this event has never stopped,\u201d Grace said. \u201cIt has been going on for a year and a half, and we\u2019re in a great place.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gary Ronan, an attorney representing Boston Soccer 2026, told the Select Board that the host committee has paid roughly $1.5 million into an escrow account held by the town. It has also agreed to cover public safety staffing invoices within one business day of receiving them during the tournament.<\/p>\n
Ronan thanked stakeholders who worked together to pull off the agreement for FIFA to secure the entertainment license.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou all have worked very hard and done what you need to do to protect the inhabitants, the citizens and residents of Foxboro,\u201d the attorney told the Select Board, \u201cand we appreciate your efforts, and we appreciate your willingness to work with us to solve the issues that were in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Kraft Group has agreed to backstop any funding gaps, emphasizing that its financial commitment is for the \u201cfull extent of deployment the public safety officials have determined is needed to execute a safe and secure event, which will exceed $5 million in addition to the $1.5 million.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe, as a community, have done our job,\u201d Select Board Chairman Bill Yukna said. \u201cWe\u2019ve protected the taxpayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bostonherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Signed, sealed and delivered: The World Cup is a full-go in Foxboro. The Foxboro Select Board has signed off on an event license for the premier soccer tournament to come to Gillette Stadium, to be rebranded as \u201cBoston Stadium,\u201d in June. \u201cThese matches will bring an excitement that this town has never seen,\u201d Police Chief […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2335861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[356205,452467,452466,452468,452469],"class_list":["post-2335860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-fifa","tag-foxboro-select-board","tag-foxboro-world-cup","tag-world-cup-funding","tag-world-cup-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Foxboro-Select-Board-signs-off-on-entertainment-license-for-World.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335862,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335860\/revisions\/2335862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2335861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}