{"id":342747,"date":"2025-12-12T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342747\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:35:11","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-ticket-pricing-outrage-socceroos-matches-football-supporters-europe-fse-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342747\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026 | Ticket pricing outrage; Socceroos matches; Football Supporters Europe (FSE) statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Football fans have been left outraged after FIFA released its ticket pricing for the 2026 World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For Socceroos<\/a> supporters, the cheapest ticket to a group game is $209.96 for category three seats. Category two seats are $569.89 while category one are $674.87.<\/p>\n

Those tickets are for games against whoever joins the group from European qualifying and the Paraguay match. Tickets for the USA match are higher, with the cheapest at $398.<\/p>\n

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The prices are a far cry from FIFA once claiming $US60 ($90) tickets would be available and the US advertising $US21 ($31) options when bidding for the tournament.<\/p>\n

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A Socceroos fan at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

However, FIFA has adopted a dynamic pricing system for the first time at a World Cup. <\/p>\n

Fan organisation Football Supporters Europe (FSE) described the new prices as “extortionate”.<\/p>\n

“This is a monumental betrayal of the tradition of the World Cup, ignoring the contribution of supporters to the spectacle it is,” it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The English Football Association shared pricing information with the England Supporters Travel Club (ESTC) on Friday (AEDT), which showed that if a fan bought a ticket for every game through to the final it would cost more than $10,500.<\/p>\n

A FIFA spokesperson told The Athletic in a statement that “the pricing model \u2026 reflects the existing market practice for major entertainment and sporting events within our hosts on a daily basis, soccer included”.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the final at MetLife Stadium are already going for in excess of $16,500 on secondary resale sites.<\/p>\n

For this tournament FIFA has also set up its own resale platform where it charges a 15 per cent fee based on the total resale price.<\/p>\n

FIFA said that closer to the tournament any remaining tickets will go on general sale on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/p>\n

It did not reveal a timeframe for the release of those remaining tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Football fans have been left outraged after FIFA released its ticket pricing for the 2026 World Cup. For…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-342747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}