{"id":593713,"date":"2026-04-10T01:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593713\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T01:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:18:22","slug":"fifa-adds-new-even-more-expensive-world-cup-ticket-categories-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593713\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA adds new even more expensive World Cup ticket categories \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA added new, even more expensive tiers of tickets for this year\u2019s World Cup, asking up to $4,105 for a front category 1 seat at the U.S. opener against Paraguay in Inglewood, California, on June 12.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, FIFA had asked for a top price of $2,735 for category 1 tickets for the match but added new \u201cfront category\u201d pricing.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA also added a front category 2 tier to its ticket sales website without public announcement, asking $1,940 to $2,330 for those tickets for the U.S. opener. The new categories were first reported Thursday by The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69cd4e167b6bfaa45113974djpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"3622\" data-pswp-height=\"2415\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69cd4e167b6bfaa45113974djpeg.jpg\" alt=\"FIFA President Gianni Infantino follows a friendly soccer match between Iran and Costa Rica, in Antalya, southern Turkey, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo\/Riza Ozel)\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFIFA President Gianni Infantino follows a friendly soccer match between Iran and Costa Rica, in Antalya, southern Turkey, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo\/Riza Ozel)<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup will be held from June 11 to July 19 in 16 cities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Soccer\u2019s governing body had in its Sept. 9 \u201cticket products and categories\u201d information called category 1 \u201cthe highest-priced seats, located primarily in the lower tier\u201d but appears to have withheld some seats from that category. It had labeled category 2 as \u201cpositioned outside of category 1 areas, available in both lower and upper tiers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FIFA did not respond to an email sent to its media office seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA added seats at up to $3,360 in front category 1 for Canada\u2019s opener against Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 12 in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>For round of 16 games, it added $905 seats in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/onsports-tile-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for Mike McIntyre | On Sports\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FIFA last week raised its top ticket price for the World Cup final to $10,990 during the glitch-hampered reopening of sales. The price had been $8,680 when FIFA sold tickets after the tournament draw in December.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA\u2019s category 2 tickets for the July 19 game at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, were $7,380, up from $5,575, and category 3 cost $5,785, an increase from $4,185.<\/p>\n<p>No tickets appeared to be available for the final on Thursday on FIFA\u2019s ticket site.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA added new, even more expensive tiers of tickets for this year\u2019s World Cup, asking up to $4,105&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-593713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}