The current get-in price for the game is $980 as of 10 a.m. Sunday.
The resale get-in price last Sunday was around $2,072, which was near peak cost for the match since tickets first went on sale last year. The price was also more than triple the $659 cost of what it was May 28.
But ticket prices for the match have sharply declined in recent days. Prices are down 41% over the past three days.
Brazil and Japan both enter Monday’s matchup without a defeat this World Cup. Both teams tied their first match of the tournament while Brazil went on to win its next two games while Japan won one and tied the other.
Star forward Vinícius Júnior has lived up to the billing for Brazil, scoring four goals in the group stage and hitting the back of the net in all three games. Matheus Cunha also has three goals for the Canarinho. Captain Marquinhos and Gabriel Magalhães form one of the strongest centerback pairings in international soccer.
‘DREAM SCENARIO’: Brazil vs. Japan in Round of 32 in Houston.
Daichi Kamada of Crystal Palace in England and Ayase Ueda of Feyenoord in the Netherlands each have two goals apiece for Japan. American-born goalkeeper Zion Suzuki and Bayern Munich defender Hiroki Ito lead the defense.
Brazil has the most World Cup titles of any country with five, but the Seleção haven’t won since 2002. It last made the semifinals in 2014.
Japan has never won a knockout stage match at the FIFA World Cup. The Samurai Blue twice lost in the round of 16 in a shootout, including to Croatia at the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Monday is the sixth of seven World Cup matches in Houston this June and July and the first of two knockout stages. The last matchup will be a Fourth of July round of 16 match that will feature the winner of Canada and South Africa and the winner of Morocco and the Netherlands.
Each of the first five matchups in Houston have had at least 68,000 people in Reliant Stadium. The World Cup capacity for the stadium during the tournament was 68,777.