FIFA raises top ticket price for World Cup final to $10,990 during glitch-hampered sales reopening
FIFA raised its top ticket price for the World Cup final to $10,990 (€9,533) during the glitch-hampered reopening of sales Wednesday after the 48-team field for this year's tournament was finalised.View on euronews
The top ticket price stood at $8,680 (€7,529) when FIFA first sold tickets after the tournament draw in December. Category 2 tickets for the final have since risen by $1,805 (€1,566), with category 3 up by $1,600 (€1,388). Tickets were listed for 17 of the 72 group-stage matches as of Wednesday evening, with none of the knockout stage games on sale.
Sky-high ticket prices FIFA is using dynamic pricing for the tournament. This means that the price customers pay can change during the ticket sale process depending on demand and availability. Democratic members of US Congress wrote in a March 10 letter to FIFA President Gianni Infantino that the use of dynamic ticket pricing “will make the 2026 FWC the most financially exclusionary and inaccessible to date”.
Euroconsumers, a European consumer rights organisation, and the Football Supporters Europe filed a formal complaint to the European Commission last month over the soaring costs for 2026 World Cup tickets. Only $2,735 (€2,372) tickets, the highest-priced seats, were available by evening for the US opener against Paraguay. No tickets were listed for the Americans' June 19 game against Australia or their match against Turkey.
Also by Wednesday evening, only $2,985 (€2,589) seats were available for the tournament opener between Mexico and Saudi Arabia on June 11. This price was up by $630 (€546) from sales in December. And only $2,240 (€1,943) tickets were available for Canada's first game on June 12 against Bosnia-Herzegovina, an increase of $70 (€60.