Updated
Updated · BBC.com · Jul 17
England-France Bronze Match Has 7,000 Tickets Left as Final Seats Top $29,995
Updated
Updated · BBC.com · Jul 17

England-France Bronze Match Has 7,000 Tickets Left as Final Seats Top $29,995

3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Jul 17

Summary

  • About 7,110 tickets were still available Friday morning for Saturday's World Cup third-place match between England and France in Miami, leaving the game short of a sellout hours before kickoff.
  • Fifa's main sales site listed 1,246 standard tickets at $865 and $1,125, while another 5,864 were on the official resale platform, where the cheapest category-three seats were $455 plus a 15% fee.
  • Resale prices for the bronze match have already fallen below face value in higher tiers, including a category-one ticket originally priced at $1,125 being offered for $659.
  • Sunday's World Cup final also still had inventory, with 32 top-priced standard tickets unsold on general sale at $29,995 to $32,970 and more than 1,000 seats listed on resale.
  • That resale market spans from roughly face value to extreme asks: tickets originally sold for $7,380 incur a $1,107 Fifa fee, while the priciest final ticket was listed at $2 million plus $300,000 in fees.

Insights

With thousands of seats empty at the World Cup, has FIFA's high-price strategy finally backfired?
Will state investigations into FIFA's 'sky-high' prices lead to fairer ticketing for future global sports events?