WTF. This is such a huge waste of money. I don’t know how people spend this much money to watch OTHER PEOPLE play a sport. A couple hundred at most.
I am so done with these enormous events. Money fucks up everything. FIFA, IOC, Formula 1, (any other sufficiently large international sports organization, tbh), Eurovision, they all suck. Corrupt leadership in the pockets of the worst states: Russia, Qatar, China, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Trump’s regime, France 😉
We bought a few tickets. I have always wanted to go to a world cup match. We have no idea who is playing. We can’t resell the tickets if the teams don’t match. It is so fucking stupid. My wife got kinda tricked as she knows I always wanted to go. Fuck FIFA and USA soccer for being compliant.
Can you explain more about not being able to resell if the teams don’t match?
Presale tickets are for time and location. They are sold to a degree already. The groups are not even made. The teams haven’t even qualified. The only ones that are, are US, Mexico an Canada. If you want one of those in presale, you had to buy for 4 - 8 games, high price locations. It is so stupid and greedy. You can’t not by terms resell them using any service. You could theoretically resell them directly person to person, but that is not easy.
Understood, thank you. Looks like the jacked up the original prices to resell levels.
That’s a lot to invest for sure.
You buy tickets to watch your favorite country play in the finals. They get booted in the semifinals. You’re stuck watching two teams you dgaf about.
And on top off that FIFA is also selling NFTs that might get you the opportunity to potentially buy a ticket.
The whole process is bordering on gambling.
Your are gambling buying tickets for a match between two teams that might not play, and gambling buying NFTs to be chosen to be put in a draw to buy tickets.
the most depressing part is how small this page is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-FIFA_international_football
Is that standard uniform ticketmaster prices? What are typical NFL regular, playoff, and superbowl prices?
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NFL Ticket prices
Season/Round Price Range Notes
Regular Season $50 - $500+ Upper-level seats can start around $50-$100, while premium lower-level and club seats can cost $200-$500+. The average NFL ticket price in 2023 was $377, a jump from $235 in 2022. Team popularity and opponent rivalry significantly influence pricing. According to vocal.media, the average cost of NFL season tickets in 2024 ranged between $600 and $3,000 per seat.
Wild Card Round Starting around $145 Prices can fluctuate, with some games seeing higher averages.
Divisional Round Starting around $400 Some games have averaged around $993.
Conference Championships Starting around $800 Expect to pay at least $800 for the most affordable tickets.
Super Bowl Starting around $2,000 - $3,000 Seats can exceed $1,800, especially in high-demand markets. The average price for Super Bowl 2025 tickets was reported at $8,076 by StubHub, down 14% from 2024. Previous Super Bowls have seen average prices like $12,082 (2024) and $8,907 (2023). Prices on the secondary market are typically higher than face value.I don’t expect a lot of tourism demand to come to US, especially with ICE announcing any excuse to raid the superbowl of all events. World cup is more popular with immigrants and tourists than NFL, and “NFL demographic” tends to have low interest in soccer. MLS (pro soccer in US) is 6x lower ticket prices than NFL.
As a non sports fan the relative prices between matches make very little sense to me.
The opening match being more-or-less tied for second-most-expensive is just silly. Isn’t it just a group match? Does it really matter that much?
And the third-place match being cheaper than the quarter-finals? Going to see who’ll finish the absolute best except for two teams doesn’t matter? If my team was in the third-place match I’d want desperately for them to finish on a high!
I guess it’s just another Sports Thing™.
For the opening match, you get to watch the opening ceremony as well, so there’s that
Opening match you know you get to watch your own team play.
also you get to be deported ! what a shit show
That’s why the high price.
Stupid event is coming to my area. Our traffic already sucks, fuck the hell off.
I am curious how it will go tbh, other countries that host it usually have reasonably good public transport options. At least good enough for getting people out of a stadium.
Part of the reason why MetLife Stadium in New Jersey won the finals game is because of the superior transit to the stadium and nearby cities over AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Considering my past experiences leaving NFL stadiums after a game, not well.
You can be stuck in the parking lot (in your car) for hours after a game ends, and only move a few feet/meters.
Most stadiums are surrounded by a sea of alsphalt, and in some cases adjacent to one or two Interstates Hwys.
That’s why you leave at half time to beat the crowd.
If they are gonna charge this much for tickets they should tax it and put some of that money towards public transportation.
Sucks to be Mexican. The world cups finally coming to your country after 40 years and the tickets are too expensive for the locals to afford.
Sucks to be Mexican. The world cups finally coming to your country after 40 years and the tickets are too expensive for the locals to afford.
They don’t want the poor to attend because they are the one that will turn the stadium into a protest.
Don’t forget the Ticketmaster fee.
Not only is this a ripoff, but traveling to the United States right now from literally any foreign country is a terrible idea.
If you get picked up off the street by the secret police, there’s nobody who can come to your aid at that point.
but traveling to the United States right now from literally any foreign country is a terrible idea.
It’s always a terrible idea.
I’m Canadian, and there’s a work conference in the states in an area I really would have wanted to go to if it were a year ago.
All expenses paid by the company for a week of travel and schmoozing.
Still not going.
Ditto. SKO in Vegas early next year, all paid. Staying home.
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Or just come to Canada and die in a fire that was set by the mafia in your egressless airbnb.
Ending up on an ICE concentration camp: priceless
And for everything else there’s MasterCard
Which will get blocked, because you bought a doujin where the girl had cat ears, which is obviously “bestiality”,
so Visa and Mastercard’s monopoly wouldn’t get challenged by the Trump regime, which seeks to ban pornographybecause of a relatively unknown Australian feminist groupwith ties to christian fundamentalists and other pro-censorship groups.
As an American, you would have to be so fucking stupid to come here for this.
Good news, there are a lot of stupid people out there.
With that much money?
You’d be surprised. There are also people who will go into debt just to watch some of those games
Oh yes, it’s much easier to be stupid when you’re rich, because money insulated you from consequences that you might normally learn from
At least you only need a one-way ticket. Your return flight will be at no cost to you. Although the destination is not negotiable.
That got me!!
Although the destination is not negotiable.
Have fun in El Salvador or Ghana!
Or Uganda. Or if you’re REALLY unlucky, Mississippi.
Good luck seeing the game then. “No return ticket? That’s suspicious, you won’t be allowed to enter.”
“No return ticket? That’s suspicious, you won’t be allowed to enter.”
Yeah, that was one of my most brick shittingests moments when I decided to migrate, planned how to leave my life in europe, made it so that all my possessions fit in one luggage and backpack, VISITED MY FRIEND IN DENMARK as a final goodbye like an idiot, and when I was trying to check in at Copenhagen airport “Do you not have a return ticket? Some countries don’t let you enter without a return ticket” I shat a brick.
(EDIT : What the fuck was I meant to do in a completely foreign country with all my posessions, and my mate going to work who needed his own space and his own life? Oh yeah, ditch work and let me back in because I have no idea what the fuck to do anymore?)
I got allowed through because the country I moved to is based 😎
European countries have done the same for a long time though. Your Schengen visa application can easily be declined if you do not show that you have accomodations and a return ticket already taken care of. It’s not a strict automatic rejection afaik, but it’s most definitely not unheard of. It’s also common for the border police to ask to see your return tickets, depending on your… appearance.
Now this would depend on you having the cash available to do this but couldn’t you just buy a refundable plane or bus ticket? That way you’d have an outbound ticket but could refund it later if you get a visa extension or visa reclassification.
Again, the moment I found out about this rule was when was trying to check in. I figured that I’d visit indefinitely, try to get a job, and my job could assist me in getting citizenship. So yeah, I could have done that, if I knew it was required. It’s usually how visa overstays work, so people do game the system from time to time.
Turns out this place is very based… kinda. Visa free visits for 90 days, if you need to stay longer you just do a day trip to a neighboring country. You can just get a job with no problems, and THEN apply for residency, at which point you CAN’T leave without a return certificate.
So no need to do that kinda stuff.
Would you be comfortable dmimg what country this was for?
I’ll just say it, it’s Uruguay. I just don’t like to blare it constantly.
FIFA is one of the most corrupt, rotten organisations on the planet.
Alongside the current US administration.
Well then they’ve found the perfect country
Yeah, that’s almost certainly a significant to decisive part of the reason why the US bid was accepted over the other applications: the bribes and the president basically being the American Infantino.
Between the ticket prices and the, ah, challenging political climate in the US, I am really curious what game attendance will be.
Packed. I sadly have no doubt.
Yeah, then ICE will raid the events.
Will probably be great in Mexico and Canada, they’ll probably fill the stadiums there with the people who don’t want to go to the US to see it.
It’s the most popular sporting event on the planet in a country with 300 million people, this is nothing like the Club World Cup that was held this year. The lack of tourists might not be a problem, save for maybe atmosphere.
This chart, with the huge ticket prices, is why the US was chosen.
How popular is non-american football in the US? I know its been getting more popular recently, but unlike most of europe and south america, it’s far from the #1 sport.
I have no doubt the canadian and mexican games (and the finals) will be sold out, but with these prices, the state of the US economy, and no sane person wanting to travel there, I wouldn’t be super surprised if some games in the US weren’t. After all, if you’re not from NA, you can just go to the next one 4 years later and it’s probably much cheaper.
Sadly it won’t be the ghost stadiums it would deserve though.
