After hosting seven matches during the 2026 World Cup, the Boston Stadium has quickly undergone a radical change.
The Gillette Stadium in Foxborough played host to some incredible games during the tournament. Scotland claimed their first World Cup win in a generation there, while Germany lost on penalties in surprise fashion to Paraguay.
France’s win over Morocco in the quarter-finals was the last game played there and no time has been wasted to get the stadium back to how it was before the biggest tournament that soccer has to offer.
Boston Stadium field ripped up after World Cup
As noted by Caleb Pongratz on social media platform X, work to remove the grass from the field started rather quickly.
Indeed, those working at the stadium will be relaying the artificial turf that was there before the World Cup got underway a month ago now.
Soccer, of course, is generally played on natural grass and FIFA duly needed the stadiums hosting fixtures to comply with that.
The grass used at the Boston Stadium during the World Cup was from Tuckahoe, New Jersey.
Work to rip up the artificial pitch started a day after the New England Patriots were sent off to the Super Bowl by fans.
NFL star George Kittle says players would prefer real grass
Last month, San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle claimed that he was of the belief that most NFL players would prefer to play on real grass if it were an option.
Kittle thinks that if the owners of teams cared enough, it could be done easily – and the World Cup shows it.
Speaking on the Pardon My Take podcast, he said: “Why not just spend a couple extra million dollars, which we know they all have, to just grass all the fields? It doesn’t seem that difficult.”
It has certainly been a debate running through the sport for years and Kittle thinks the unwillingness of owners to spend the extra money is the sole reason artificial turf remains.
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