Getting to SoFi Stadium for the World Cup: Parking, Rideshare, or a Rental Car
Three ways to handle match-day transportation in Inglewood — and how to pick the one that fits your group and your trip.
SoFi Stadium in Inglewood is the LA home of the 2026 World Cup, and on match days the area around it gets dense. If you are deciding how to get there, you have three realistic options. Here is the honest tradeoff for each.
Option 1: Drive and park at the stadium
SoFi parking is pre-paid and assigned by lot. Buy your pass in advance through the official stadium or match channels — match-day lots sell out, and on-site cash parking is not guaranteed for a World Cup crowd. If you have a pass, driving in is simple, and every car we rent fits standard stadium parking.
The catch is the exit. A sold-out stadium empties all at once, and the lots take time to clear. If you are patient, or you are heading somewhere that lets traffic thin first, this is the most direct option.
Option 2: Rideshare both ways
For a solo fan with no other plans, rideshare to the stadium can be the path of least resistance — no parking pass, no exit wait. The downside is surge pricing. On a World Cup match day, with the whole city converging on Inglewood, fares spike hard in both directions, and pickup zones after a sold-out match are slow.
For a group of four or more, round-trip rideshare on multiple match days adds up fast — often past what a rental for the whole trip would cost.
Option 3: Rent the car, park at the hotel, walk or rideshare the last stretch
This is what most groups we talk to land on. You have a car for the whole trip — airport, hotel, the beach, dinner across town on rest days — and on match day you leave it at the hotel and cover the final stretch into Inglewood on foot or with one short rideshare. You skip the lot crush and the surge round-trip, and you still have a vehicle the rest of the time.
For six or seven, the [BMW X7 M Sport](/fleet/bmw-x7-m-sport) or the [Kia Telluride](/fleet/kia-telluride) keeps the group in one vehicle. We deliver it to your hotel — Inglewood, the LAX cluster, or anywhere across LA — and pick it up when you leave.
The short answer
Solo, no other plans: rideshare or a parking pass, whichever you prefer. Traveling as a group, or building a real LA trip around the matches: rent the car. It is cheaper than days of surge rideshare, it keeps everyone together, and it turns the World Cup into a week in LA instead of a series of stadium round-trips.
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