{"id":350041,"date":"2026-06-25T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350041\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:07:08","slug":"cape-verde-vs-saudi-arabia-tickets-houston-world-cup-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350041\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia tickets: Houston World Cup prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tickets to the Cape Verde-Saudi Arabia match Friday in Houston were the cheapest among all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/world-cup\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> matches just a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Now the get-in price has topped over $750, an increase of 333% from its cost a month ago, per ticketdata.com.<\/p>\n<p>The cheapest resale ticket costs $756 as of 9 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/world-cup\/article\/cape-verde-saudi-arabia-tickets-22306378.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">only match with a greater jump<\/a> in cost over the past 30 days is the July 6 match in Seattle, which could feature the U.S. if the team wins its round of 32 match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From April 30 to June 11, the opening day of the World Cup, the get-in price was under $200 for the Houston match. But the price started rising as soon as the tournament started. After the opening weekend, tickets cost around $400.<\/p>\n<p>Then Cape Verde tied Spain and Saudi Arabia tied Uruguay on June 15. Tickets were over $600 within 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets finally topped $700 on Monday and have stayed there for the most part in the days since.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Verde has been one of the darlings of the tournament in its first World Cup. The Blue Sharks drew two former World Cup winners in Spain and Uruguay in its first two matchups, setting itself up for a potential knockout stage appearance with a good result Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A win would guarantee a spot in the knockout stage while a draw would put the team in a more precarious situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, if Uruguay loses to Spain, a draw would be enough to finish in second place in the group and advance out of Group H.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia fell back after its draw with Uruguay, losing 4-0 to Spain. But a win for the Green Falcons would likely see them advance to the knockout stage of the World Cup for the first time since 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Verde is one of three teams playing in their first World Cups in Houston. The previous two teams, Cura\u00e7ao and Uzbekistan, both lost by a combined score\u00a0of 12-1.<\/p>\n<p>But those teams also faced top-10 teams in the world. Saudi Arabia and Cape Verde both entered the World Cup ranked in the 60s.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s match is the fifth of seven World Cup matches in Houston, and the last group stage match in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of Group H\u00a0will face the runner-up in Group J while the runner-up in Group H will face Argentina, who won Group J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tickets to the Cape Verde-Saudi Arabia match Friday in Houston were the cheapest among all FIFA World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-350041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}