How Soccer.com’s World Cup lift could extend to Cyber 5
Months after the 2026 FIFA World Cup final — the event with the biggest impact on Soccer.com sales — the retailer is planning for the Cyber 5. The five-day period from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday generates traffic increases for the retailer, as do other sales holidays such as Memorial, Independence and Labor days. “Those are meaningful […] The post How Soccer.com’s World Cup lift could extend to Cyber 5 appeared first on Digital Commerce 360.
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Months after the 2026 FIFA World Cup final — the event with the biggest impact on Soccer. com sales — the retailer is planning for the Cyber 5. The five-day period from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday generates traffic increases for the retailer, as do other sales holidays such as Memorial, Independence and Labor days.
“Those are meaningful to us as shopping holidays, but for us, it’s more seasonal,” Billy Lalor, director of consumer merchandising for Soccer. com. He told Digital Commerce 360 that the retailer benefits from increased web traffic around typical shopping holidays, “but they’re not peaks in the way that maybe they are for more general retailers.”
Instead, Soccer. com is “just getting over the bell curve of the large peak.” From late July through late August, soccer players are typically getting ready to go back to playing for school or club teams. They gear up for the fall season. Lalor has noticed that youth-sized fan merchandise tied to the World Cup did not sell through as much as Soccer.
com had expected going into the event. He said he wouldn’t characterize those sales as struggling, but he observed they didn’t receive the type of benefit that both adult men’s and women’s products did. Now, he sees youth apparel benefiting from back-to-school season. News Demand during World Cup boosts sales at Soccer. com Abbas Haleem | Aug 25, 2026
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