MetLife Stadium will host eight games in next year’s World Cup, including the final, drawing some 80,000 fans to East Rutherford for the final alone.

Across 32 competing teams over the last month, FIFA have doled out a $1billion (£744m) prize pot.

Phil Murphy, the governor of New Jersey, told the Global Game summit last week the World Cup final at MetLife next July 19 will be “the most watched event in human history”, claiming the eight matche...