Bavarian Grass Works: The story behind the World Cup’s grass

Workers remove turf from the pitch at Lincoln Financial Field in preparation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, on April 28, 2026. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images If you were wondering the backstory on some of the grass being

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What is the story about?

If you were wondering the backstory on some of the grass being used at the World Cup, there is actually a very cool tale behind it.

The grass, developed by Rutgers University, was grown at Tuckahoe Turf Farms in Hammonton, New Jersey and installed into many (but not all) of the World Cup stadiums in the United States.

Rutgers released the backstory on the development of this grass on Instagram:

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This writer — a known #Grasshead (#GrassClown?) — has been to Tuckahoe Turf Farms hundreds of times for soccer

games. The complex itself is massive and is just hundreds of acres of grass. It is wild.

The interesting part of this story will be to see how the grass holds up during the tournament, which was a worry coming into the tournament for a lot of fans and players. So far, so good, but we will see if this experiment in the United States will work — or is they need to go back to the drawing board.

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