Lincoln Financial Field to host Arsenal vs. Liverpool on July 31

Tickets will go on sale Tuesday at 9 a.m. through Ticketmaster. The game should draw a big crowd, as the two clubs have had huge American fan bases for decades.

Liverpool's Dominik Szoboszlai (left) and Arsenal's William Saliba (right) shake hands after they faced off last December.Read moreJon Super / AP

by Jonathan Tannenwald

Published Feb. 23, 2024, 11:56 a.m. ET

English Premier League giants Arsenal and Liverpool will meet at Lincoln Financial Field on July 31, adding another big game to the region’s soccer calendar.

Ticket sales start with a presale at 9 a.m. Monday that fans can register for via the event promoter’s website, tegsport.com.au. Ticket sales for the general public start at 9 a.m. Tuesday through Ticketmaster.

The game will be a 7:30 p.m. kickoff, and it’s likely to sell out. The clubs have had huge American fan bases for decades.

Arsenal-Liverpool will be the second big soccer game of the year at the Linc, and, coincidentally, they were announced on back-to-back days. On Thursday, reigning men’s World Cup champion Argentina announced it will play El Salvador at the Eagles’ home on March 22.

Ticket information for that game isn’t available yet. With Lionel Messi and other stars likely to be involved, it’s also a near-certainty to sell out.

We won’t know which stars will play in Arsenal-Liverpool until closer to the time. It’s two weeks after the European Championship and Copa América, and European teams always make their big roster moves in the summer. Liverpool also will have a new manager, as famed boss Jurgen Klopp is stepping down after the season ends in May.

But if the teams were to show up here today, Arsenal would bring Gabriel Jesus, Bukayo Saka, Martin Ødegaard, and Declan Rice; and Liverpool would bring Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk, Dominik Szoboszlai, and Luis Díaz.

Neither team has an American player, but Szoboszlai will see two familiar faces if he comes to town. The Union’s Dániel Gazdag is a colleague on Hungary’s national team, and sporting director Ernst Tanner launched Szoboszlai to fame at Austria’s Red Bull Salzburg in 2018.

(In fact, when Salzburg sold Szoboszlai to sibling club RB Leipzig in 2021, the player it bought as a replacement was the Union’s Brenden Aaronson.)

Frankly, it won’t matter who’s on the field because the fan bases are so big. Arsenal and Manchester United sold out MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., last year, and an Arsenal-Everton game in Baltimore in 2022 drew just under 40,000 fans. Liverpool hasn’t come to the U.S. since 2019, when it played at New York’s Yankee Stadium, Boston’s Fenway Park, and Notre Dame’s football stadium in South Bend, Ind.

Manchester United also is coming to the U.S. this summer and will play a round-robin exhibition series with Arsenal and Liverpool. United-Arsenal will start the series at SoFi Stadium on July 27 in suburban Los Angeles, and United-Liverpool will finish it on Aug. 3 at the University of South Carolina’s football stadium in Columbia, S.C.