{"id":577858,"date":"2026-05-18T11:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/577858\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:27:14","slug":"best-sports-business-cities-no-26-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/577858\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Sports Business Cities: No. 26 Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"COLUMBUS, OHIO - MARCH 01: A general view of Dylan Larkin #71 of the Detroit Red Wings and Adam Fantilli #19 of the Columbus Blue Jackets taking the face-off at center ice to start the first period NHL Stadium Series game between the Detroit Red Wings and the Columbus Blue Jackets at Ohio Stadium on March 01, 2025 in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Andrea Cardin\/NHLI via Getty Images)\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3CKQXVYQUJHOFGCOUNRJYJDTNA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>The Columbus Blue Jackets and the Detroit Red Wings played in the 2025 NHL Stadium Series at Ohio Stadium. NHLI via Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The Nationwide Arena District, home to three venues and soon to be five teams with the addition of an NWSL franchise, hosts more than 1.5 million fans annually. Columbus\u2019 recent event r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes eight different NCAA postseason tournaments and the Navy Federal Credit Union NHL Stadium Series at Ohio Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Rankings<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2023: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/03\/20\/In-Depth\/best-sports-business-cities-26-50\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/03\/20\/In-Depth\/best-sports-business-cities-26-50\/\">#26<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2024 Event Hosting: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/03\/18\/bsbc-columbus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/03\/18\/bsbc-columbus\/\">#10<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2025 Soccer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/26\/best-sports-business-cities-soccer-no-17-columbus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/26\/best-sports-business-cities-soccer-no-17-columbus\/\">#17<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Columbus Blue Jackets and the Detroit Red Wings played in the 2025 NHL Stadium Series at Ohio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5108],"tags":[64489,3644,5180,897,230,5179,19976,5,2912,901,4,4194,11926],"class_list":["post-577858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-best-sports-business-cities","tag-blue-jackets","tag-bluejackets","tag-columbus","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-columbusbluejackets","tag-data-and-insights","tag-hockey","tag-nationwide-arena","tag-ncaa","tag-nhl","tag-nwsl","tag-print"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116595343183035145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}