- Ticket costs for a lot of video games at 2026 FIFA World Cup are obscene
Numerous rusted-on Socceroos followers have been priced out of tickets to the FIFA World Cup this yr, with some grasping scalpers asking for an astonishing $322,000 for some video games.
It comes after many supporters forked out $99 to Soccer Australia simply to lodge an software for World Cup tickets, which they missed out on as soon as the ticket ballots had been revealed this week.
Mark Bowman has adopted the Socceroos since their first World Cup look in 1974, and hoped to journey to the event that will probably be hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico from June 11.
However Bowman, 65, was left disgruntled after solely securing tickets for one among Australia’s group matches in opposition to Paraguay on June 26 in Santa Clara, California.
‘To have created a scheme which costs cash, figuring out persons are determined and are going to pay, and that you’ve followers who’ve been with the Socceroos by means of thick and skinny, however to in the end allocate the tickets at random, that actually bugs me,’ Bowman advised the Sydney Morning Herald.
With hundreds of Socceroos supporters heading to the World Cup – many with out tickets – they’re in for a impolite shock.
Numerous rusted-on Socceroos followers have been priced out of tickets to the FIFA World Cup this yr, with some grasping scalpers asking for an astonishing $322,000 for some video games
It comes after many supporters forked out $99 to Soccer Australia simply to lodge an software for World Cup tickets, which they missed out on as soon as the ticket ballots had been revealed this week
Some tickets to the Socceroos’ sport with the US in Seattle on June 20 are listed on-line for as a lot as $40,700 (pictured, coach Tony Popovic)
If they’re fortunate sufficient to observe Tony Popovic’s males within the flesh, it will not come low cost.
Tickets to Australia’s sport with the US in Seattle on June 20 are listed on-line for as a lot as $40,700.
Even tickets for the lowest-quality seating, class 4, that are price $60, are at the moment listed for $6,500.
Attending the World Cup closing will probably be unrealistic for a lot of, with some tickets listed for a jaw-dropping $322,000.
Patrick Clancy, the pinnacle of advocacy group Soccer Supporters Australia, expects many followers to as an alternative watch the motion at dwelling or a neighborhood bar.
‘At this stage, persons are in all probability not going to go if they can not get any tickets,’ he advised the ABC.
‘I’ll say this… some Australian soccer followers are so passionate they will not let something get of their manner.
‘They see this as an enormous four-year occasion and so they’ll go there wherever it’s and nevertheless they get there…and so they’ll empty their pockets in order that they’ll attend.
Regardless of the hefty price ticket, gross sales stay brisk, with FIFA claiming they’re catering to 500 million ticket requests globally.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup has been expanded to 48 groups and can happen from June 11 to July 19.
