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Associated Press

Fifa raised its top ticket price for the World Cup final to US$10,990 during the glitch-hampered reopening of sales on Wednesday after the 48-team field for this year’s tournament was finalised.
The price had been US$8,680 when Fifa sold tickets after the tournament draw in December.
Fifa’s category two tickets for the July 19 game at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, were US$7,380, up from US$5,575, and category three cost US$5,785, an increase from US$4,185.
Tickets were listed for 17 of the 72 group-stage matches by Wednesday night and none of the knockout-stage games.
Football’s governing body is using dynamic pricing for the tournament, which will be played in 11 United States cities plus three in Mexico and two in Canada.
Only tickets for the highest-priced seats, selling for S$2,735, were available by evening for the US opener on June 12 against Paraguay at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, and the price was unchanged from December.

Only US$2,985 seats were available by Wednesday evening for the tournament opener between Mexico and Saudi Arabia on June 11 in Mexico City, up from US$2,355 in December. And only US$2,240 tickets were available for Canada’s first game on June 12 against Bosnia-Herzegovina in Toronto, an increase from US$2,170.
Fifa did not announce which games and price categories were available, leaving potential ticket buyers to search themselves on a Fifa ticketing site that often took hours to enter.
Fifa also said that not all remaining tickets were being put on sale for the 104 games to be played in the US, Mexico and Canada from June 11 to July 19, and that additional tickets would be released on a rolling basis.
This was the fifth phase of ticket sales following a Visa presale draw from September 10 to September 19, an early ticket draw on October 27-31, a random selection draw from December 11 to January 13, and an unscheduled 48-hour availability in late February.
Fifa said the current phase, which will remain open until the tournament ended, marked the first time a specific seat location could be bought rather than a request for a ticket in a category.
For the month-long sales phase after the December 5 draw, tickets were priced from US$140 to US$8,680. After complaints, Fifa said US$60 tickets would be made available to each national federation taking part for their most loyal supporters, an amount likely to be 400-700 per team for each match.
“The employment of dynamic ticket pricing for the 2026 FWC starkly contrasts with Fifa’s core mission to promote the accessible and inclusive promotion and development of soccer globally,” 69 Democratic members of Congress wrote in a March 10 letter to Fifa president Gianni Infantino.
“Despite host cities’ cooperation in bringing the vision of the largest, most global World Cup in history to fruition, the consequences of dynamic pricing will make the 2026 FWC the most financially exclusionary and inaccessible to date.”
Fifa also has its own resale market, collecting 15 per cent from both the buyer and seller.

Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Czech Republic, Iraq, Sweden and Turkey completed the World Cup field. Fans of teams eliminated on Tuesday could attempt to resell tickets they already had bought, nations that include Italy, Poland, Denmark, Jamaica and Bolivia.
Fan groups have voiced concern over the soaring costs for resold tickets and one filed a formal complaint to the European Commission last month.


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The global tournament uses dynamic pricing for ticket sales, and its ticketing site often took hours to enter as latest sales phase opened


The global tournament uses dynamic pricing for ticket sales, and its ticketing site often took hours to enter as latest sales phase opened.


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Fifa raises top ticket price for World Cup final from US$8,680 to US$10,990 as sales reopen

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The global tournament uses dynamic pricing for ticket sales, and its ticketing site often took hours to enter as latest sales phase opened