I’m not up on how one is buying WC tix.
Are people buying “:All the matches of ‘Country X’ no matter where they play”? With some Groups having matches pretty far away from each and some group – or each individual person – having to make plane reservations, only to have to wait and see where the next rounds will be seems logistically challenging. And a lot of work. With all that arranging, I’d probably not bother, but I’m rational, and many fans are not.
I’d like to see what one or two tickets for every Inglewood match might cost, were I to want to maximize my in-person viewing while minimizing my traveling. That’s 8 matches with at least two USMNT matches (possibly one more).
They have the “follow my team” option, the venue option, and individual game sales. The venue option doesn’t usually contain the premium later stage knockout game or 2, but has the others.
Like you, I have no desire to travel around for this one. The venue option would be perfect for me if I can get one.
Just bought Whitecaps playoff tickets. What a pleasant surprise price-wise compared to WC 2026.
In the original WC bid book they estimated group-stage tickets could range from $21 to $323, and tickets to the World Cup final could range from $128 to $1,550.
Those group stage prices would be great.
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Salah and Egypt make the World Cup, as CAF finally decided on a better method for determining qualifiers.
In 2022, the winners of 10 Groups of 4 teams drew against each other for a two-leg knockout. No seeding, just random. Egypt drew Senegal, lost on penalties.
This year, nine groups of six teams played, winners going directly, the four best second place teams go to two-round one-leg knockouts for a playoff spot. Egypt has won their group with one match remaining. Still a pretty shitty way. All second-place teams should be somewhat “equal” and their results in their group are more about how poorly the rest of their Group relative to other Groups.
Issue is that there are a lot of countries (54, all participated – except Eritrea dropped) and only a few spots (versus Europe’s lots of spots and lots of countries). Probably should start the qualification process sooner like CONCACAF does: with preliminary knockouts of very-low-ranked teams. Work their way to four groups of whatever, 7 or so, top two advance from each Group, third-place teams have a two-round one-leg playoff for the intercontinental spot.
Nice scam FIFA have going:
Touts buy at FIFA prices (A) direct at dynamic prices. They then advertise them for resale at 3A-5A prices via ticket resale sites, with FIFA taking a 15% cut of those 3A-5A prices.
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OK, so people who cannot afford them are complaining about the people that can afford them.
Unclear, if the prices are too high for anyone to buy them, why there are too many people who want to buy them.
Someone seems to be mistaken about simple Economics.
Also, why do SOME people (“me, not thee”) deserve to have lower prices?
This can be resolved if pricing were two-way. Let me, the consumer, offer my price. I will wait as long as necessary. I might withdraw and lower my price after a while of waiting.
Huh. Seems the prices were too low to start with, and FIFA is only getting 15% instead of the whole thing.
Who is scamming whom now?
“Tout,” I ask since I’m not bilingual, is British for “scalper”?
FIFA is taking 15% via both BUYERS and SELLERS of of their ticket resale site.
Thats 30% of the price of the resale ticket. This is shameless profiteering.
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They start making REAL money after the third or fourth resale!
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I wonder what it would take for FIFA to pull out and go to Plan B.
(Non-Pregnant, but Pause…)
Wondering what Plan B is. I assume there is always a Plan B in such a case. Would they simply cancel the WC if half is the USA was in flames? Could they move it all to Mexico?
FIFA: “Countries where the government intervenes in the sport of football may be excluded from international competition, be prohibited from hosting matches, and/or be excluded from hosting competitions.”
Also FIFA: “This does not apply to a country where we can make a shitload of money or a country that offers us a shitload of money.”
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Mexico has done this before -
Although Mexico, United States and Canada submitted bids on 11 March 1983 to be the replacement host, (Brazil was the only other eligible bidder but did not bid) the five-person special FIFA committee responsible for recommending the bids to the Executive Committee (Exco) announced on 31 March that it would only consider Mexico’s bid, saying the United States and Canada had “deviated” from FIFA’s criteria and Exco members refused to visit Canadian and American stadium sites. On 20 May, the committee announced Mexico as the replacement host
Is there any particular country or group of countries with 10 World Cup quality stadiums ready to go?
Perhaps give them to “the EU” or “the Schengen area”, and bar the USMNT team from the competition?
I’d say any of the bigger Euro countries could manage this at the drop of a hat.
Brazil? Qatar? France? England? Germany? Spain? Italy?
Brazil and Qatar both used temporary stadiums, and Qatar relied on a temporary facility to provide the required hotel space.