{"id":315567,"date":"2026-05-14T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315567\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:03:07","slug":"california-attorney-general-pushes-fifa-for-info-on-misleading-ticketing-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315567\/","title":{"rendered":"California attorney general pushes FIFA for info on \u2018misleading\u2019 ticketing maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has written to FIFA asking for more information on World Cup \u201cticketing maps that some fans have labeled misleading<\/a>,\u201d according to Henry Bushnell of THE ATHLETIC. In a letter sent Wednesday to FIFA\u2019s legal department, Bonta requested \u201ca variety of information from the global soccer governing body \u2018to assess whether California law may have been violated\u2019\u201d during the ticket sales process. Bonta wrote that his office \u201cis particularly concerned about recent reports that FIFA sold tickets by categories based on seating zones depicted on stadium maps but then changed those seat categorizations before assigning precise seat locations.\u201d FIFA sold millions of tickets to the World Cup in four categories throughout the fall and winter, with each category \u201ccorresponding to a range of sections at each stadium, per color-coded maps embedded in the ticketing portal and\u202fpublished online.\u201d But the organization \u201caltered those maps\u202ffrom one sales phase to the next, then assigned a minority of ticket buyers a seat that, in an earlier phase, had belonged to a different category\u201d (THE ATHLETIC, 5\/13<\/a>). Though FIFA has \u201cdefended its policy by stating that seating maps were only to \u2018provide guidance\u2019<\/a> rather than outline a specific seat location,\u201d Bonta said that \u201cmay not be enough to avoid legal scrutiny.\u201d In his letter, Bonta \u201crequested answers from FIFA by May 29\u201d (USA TODAY, 5\/13<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Attorney General Rob Bonta has written to FIFA asking for more information on World Cup \u201cticketing maps…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,8862,41737,5393],"class_list":["post-315567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-fifa","tag-ticketing","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}