{"id":902774,"date":"2026-05-01T04:23:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/fifa-world-cup-tickets-on-resale-for-11m-as-costs-soar\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T04:23:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:23:46","slug":"fifa-world-cup-tickets-on-resale-for-11m-as-costs-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/fifa-world-cup-tickets-on-resale-for-11m-as-costs-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa World Cup tickets on resale for $11m as costs soar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tickets for this year\u2019s Fifa World Cup are being resold for an eye-watering $11m<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tickets for this year\u2019s Fifa World Cup are being resold for an eye-watering $11m as fans fear taking out second mortgages to get to North America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The category four ticket at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami would give a fan access to Scotland\u2019s showpiece group match against Brazil, but will cost $11m on Fifa\u2019s official World Cup resale website.<\/p>\n

Watching England take on Croatia, Ghana and Panama wouldn\u2019t cost quite that much but there are resale tickets going for $17,000 against Luka Modric\u2019s side, $29,000 to watch Thomas Tuchel\u2019s team play Ghana and $17,000 for the potential decider.<\/p>\n

Scotland\u2019s fixture against Haiti could set fans back $85,000 while tickets versus Morocco are as high as $57,500.<\/p>\n

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The $11m ticket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

World Cup tickets soar<\/h2>\n

\u201cFifa are being very coy as to the number of tickets that have been sold for the tournament,\u201d football finance expert Kieran Maguire told City AM<\/em>. \u201cIt would appear that the strategy is to initially try to sell as many tickets to as many people as possible regardless of whether or not those people are football fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does appear that they may have been oversubscribed<\/a> even at high prices with a view to people putting them on the secondary market and then making a profit from flipping the tickets. This is actually really good news for Fifa because they get the benefits of selling tickets initially through the first sets of releases.<\/p>\n

\u201cFifa keeps the money from the sales and if people then resell the tickets<\/a>, Fifa takes a 30 per cent commission on the margin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thousands of tickets are available on the resale platform for all six of England and Scotland\u2019s group games \u2013 taking place across Dallas, Boston, New Jersey and Miami.<\/p>\n

And some fans have raised concerns over the price of getting to North America.<\/p>\n

Paul Goodwin, co-founder of the Scottish Football Supporters Association, told the Press Association: \u201cThere will be a lot of second mortgages and costs being put on credit cards. You can laugh about it, but there is a worry that some people are actually going to overextend themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s another huge disappointment. It\u2019s a kick in the goolies to ordinary fans and another reminder that the further up the tree that you go, the game is getting further and further away from its origins and the people who will turn up on a wet Tuesday night in Forfar.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Matt Hardy
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Wednesday 08 April 2026 11:31 am \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0Updated:\u00a0 Wednesday 08 April 2026 11:32 am Tickets for this year\u2019s Fifa World Cup are being resold for an eye-watering $11m Tickets for this year\u2019s Fifa World Cup are being resold for an eye-watering $11m as fans fear taking out second mortgages to get to North America. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2945,644],"tags":[13086,5489],"class_list":{"0":"post-902774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tickets","8":"category-world","9":"tag-tickets","10":"tag-world"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}