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TORONTO, June 27 (Reuters) – Ticket prices at resale platforms skyrocketed for \u2060the World Cup game between Portugal and Croatia in Torontonext \u200cweek, with the average price for the cheapest ticket crossing $3,000 late on Saturday, data from price-tracking website Ticketdata showed.<\/p>\n
Portugal were held to a draw against Colombia in Miami, which \u200bmeant Cristiano Ronaldo’s side finished second in \u2060Group K.<\/p>\n
Croatia finished second in \u2060Group L after they defeated Ghana in their last group game.<\/p>\n
Portugal will now \u2060face \u200cCroatia at Toronto Stadium in the round of 32 on July 2 in a match pitting Ronaldo against his old \u2060teammate at Real Madrid, Luka Modric.<\/p>\n
The average price for \u200bthe cheapest ticket \u200cstood at $3,225 on secondary resale websites as of 11 p.m. ET (0300 \u2060GMT), according \u200bto Ticketdata, the highest for any round-of-32 game.<\/p>\n
Ticketdata gathers data from resale platforms including StubHub and Vivid, according to its website.<\/p>\n
The price had more than doubled \u2060from before kickoff in the game between \u200bPortugal and Colombia, highlighting the dynamic pricing system adopted by tournament organiser FIFA this year.<\/p>\n
The system lets prices move with demand \u2014 a regular practice at \u2060U.S. concerts and sporting events \u2014 and had pushed group-stage game resale tickets above $1,000.<\/p>\n
An earlier Reuters analysis showed the prices for tickets and accommodation alike have pushed the world’s biggest sporting spectacle this year further than ever \u200binto the hands of those with higher incomes, \u2060signallinga reshaping of the profile of World Cup ticket holders.<\/p>\n
FIFA has urged \u200bfans to use only its own official resale \u200cplatform, saying its resale and exchange \u200bmarketplace is the only platform through which it can guarantee proper delivery of tickets.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Bhargav Acharya; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Adds ‘game’ in first paragraph) TORONTO, June 27 (Reuters) – Ticket prices at resale platforms skyrocketed for \u2060the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,3274,561,82,13009],"class_list":["post-766433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fifa","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766433","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=766433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}