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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,598 posts) Wed May 20, 2026, 01:02 PM Wednesday

$32,970 for a World Cup ticket? Fans aren't fond of FIFA prices

The average full-time American worker earns about $1,235 a week.

At that salary, you’d have to work 27 weeks to pay for a single, face-value ticket to the men's World Cup final, if you wanted one of the best seats in the house.

Soccer fans are paying staggering sums for tickets to the 2026 World Cup, with the United States hosting some games for the first time since 1994. FIFA, soccer’s governing body, raised eyebrows this month by putting premium Cup final tickets on sale at $32,970 apiece.

The event has become a symbol for the perceived excesses of dynamic pricing, a sales strategy that adjusts prices over time based on how much customers are willing to pay.

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/32-970-world-cup-ticket-090205965.html

I got an e-mail from Ticketmaster a couple of months ago advertising World Cup tickets, $1500 apiece for the cheap seats.

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$32,970 for a World Cup ticket? Fans aren't fond of FIFA prices (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday OP

Damn! It's just a soccer game. Not the World Series or the Super Bowl Walleye Wednesday #1

World Cup is like the Super Bowl probably more prestigious than the baseball World Series AZProgressive Wednesday #4

Let's call "dynamic pricing" what is really is, shall we? It is price gouging, plain and simple. mwmisses4289 Wednesday #2

Paying $33K... GiqueCee Wednesday #3

Walleye

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1. Damn! It's just a soccer game. Not the World Series or the Super Bowl

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Wed May 20, 2026, 01:05 PM

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AZProgressive

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4. World Cup is like the Super Bowl probably more prestigious than the baseball World Series

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Wed May 20, 2026, 06:12 PM

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FIFA is corrupt so I won't be watching much less attending but soccer is the most popular sport in the world outside of the US so I understand the demand for the tickets.

mwmisses4289

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2. Let's call "dynamic pricing" what is really is, shall we? It is price gouging, plain and simple.

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Wed May 20, 2026, 01:19 PM

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GiqueCee

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3. Paying $33K...

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Wed May 20, 2026, 01:20 PM

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... to watch men chase a ball around a field is the definition of insanity. And that's after they pay for travel and lodging! Even $1,500 is more than any game is worth, in my not-so-humble opinion.
Constantly casting worried glances over your shoulder for psychotic ICE agents looking to fill their quotas, even if it's with kids and grannies, will wind up the paranoia, BIGLY!
Well, at least it isn't gladiatorial combat to the death. SHHH! Don't give Trump any ideas! Blood puddles on the South Lawn would be really gross!

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