FIFA raises top ticket price for World Cup final to $10,990

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · Apr 02, 2026 · 606 words · By Rebecca Spezzano

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FIFA raised its top ticket price for the World Cup final to $10,990 (€9,533) during the glitch-hampered reopening of sales Wednesday after the 48-team field for this year's tournament was finalised.

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What happened

Why it matters

The top ticket price stood at $8,680 (€7,529) when FIFA first sold tickets after the tournament draw in December.

Common ground

Category 2 tickets for the final have since risen by $1,805 (€1,566), with category 3 up by $1,600 (€1,388).

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Claim 1: “Bosnia-Herzegovina, Congo, the Czech Republic, Iraq, Sweden and Turkey completed the World Cup field.”

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Claim 2: “FIFA also said that not all remaining tickets were being put on sale for the 104 games to be played and that additional tickets will be released on a rolling basis.”

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Claim 3: “Category 2 tickets for the final have since risen by $1,805 (€1,566), with category 3 up by $1,600 (€1,388).”

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Claim 4: “Some European countries have laws which can restrict resale by requiring tickets to be sold for face value or only by authorised partners of the event organisers.”

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Claim 5: “FIFA is using dynamic pricing for the tournament. This means that the price customers pay can change during the ticket sale process depending on demand and availability.”

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Claim 6: “Tickets were listed for 17 of the 72 group-stage matches as of Wednesday evening, with none of the knockout stage games on sale.”

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Claim 7: “This price was up by $630 (€546) from sales in December. And only $2,240 (€1,943) tickets were available for Canada's first game on June 12 against Bosnia-Herzegovina, an increase of $70 (€60.72).”

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Claim 8: “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.”

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Claim 9: “FIFA raised its top ticket price for the World Cup final to $10,990 (€9,533) during the glitch-hampered reopening of sales Wednesday after the 48-team field for this year's tournament was finalised.”

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web search NEUTRAL — The top ticket price for the World Cup final hit $10,990 as FIFA reopened sales Wednesday.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/48369993/world-cup-ti…

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web search NEUTRAL — FIFA raised its top ticket price for the World Cup final to $10,990 during the glitch-hampered reopening of sales Wednesday after the 48-team field for this year's tournament was finalized.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/sports/world-cup-final-ti…

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web search NEUTRAL — FIFA has raised prices for over 40 games of the World Cup in its latest sale that kicked off Wednesday, according to an NPR count. The most expensive tickets to the final now cost $10,900.
https://www.kcur.org/sports/2026-04-02/fifa-hikes-world-cup-…

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Claim 10: “Euroconsumers, a European consumer rights organisation, and the Football Supporters Europe filed a formal complaint to the European Commission last month over the soaring costs for 2026 World Cup tickets.”

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Claim 11: “The top ticket price stood at $8,680 (€7,529) when FIFA first sold tickets after the tournament draw in December.”

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web search NEUTRAL — Fifa raised its top ticket price for the World Cup final to $10,990 during the glitch-hampered reopening of sales on Wednesday after the 48-team field for this year's tournament was finalized.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/apr/02/fifa-ticket…

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web search NEUTRAL — FIFA raised its top ticket price for the World Cup final to $10,990 during the glitch-hampered reopening of sales Wednesday after the 48-team field for this year's tournament was finalized. The .…
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/04/01/fifa-raises-top-t…

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web search NEUTRAL — FIFA raised its top ticket price for the World Cup final to $10,990 during the glitch-hampered reopening of sales Wednesday after the 48-team field for this year's tournament was finalized.
https://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2026-04-01/fifa-…

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Claim 12: “Democratic members of US Congress wrote in a March 10 letter to FIFA President Gianni Infantino that the use of dynamic ticket pricing 'will make the 2026 FWC the most financially exclusionary and inaccessible to date'.”

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Claim 13: “Only $2,735 (€2,372) tickets, the highest-priced seats, were available by evening for the US opener against Paraguay.”

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Claim 14: “FIFA also has its own resale market, collecting 15% from both the buyer and seller.”

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Claim 15: “Infantino claimed in January that the amount of ticket requests FIFA had received was the equivalent of 'the request for 1,000 years of World Cups at once.'”

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Claim 16: “Also by Wednesday evening, only $2,985 (€2,589) seats were available for the tournament opener between Mexico and Saudi Arabia on June 11.”

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