For passionate fans, the price ranges from 6.18 million won per ticket to 88,000 won per ticket.
“Some low-cost tickets will be distributed through each country’s soccer federation.”
It seems that strong opposition and protests from European soccer fans had an effect.
It is a rare occasion when FIFA and its president, Gianni Infantpino, have accepted a wave of criticism and decided to revise a World Cup decision. This is because such high admission prices are known to be the result of coordination with US President Donald Trump’s political decisions.
In an announcement on the 16th, FIFA announced that it has decided to provide some $60 tickets to all games of the North American World Cup. This will be allocated to each national soccer federation participating in the game. It was decided to delegate to each country’s soccer federation how to distribute the tickets to passionate fans who attended domestic and overseas matches in previous games.
About 400 to 750 $60 tickets will be available for each team. FIFA provides this “Supporter Entry Tier” table through stadiums in 16 cities of the host country. In the United States, 11 NFL stadiums, in Canada, 2, and in Mexico, 3 will benefit.
FIFA did not provide a detailed explanation as to why such a drastic change suddenly occurred. However, it was only stated that the lower admission fee was “to support passionate fans when they travel to the national team’s match schedule in the future.”
However, the ‘European Football Support Group’, a grassroots soccer fan group that led the ticket price backlash, says that this partial admission fee reduction is an emergency measure to quell the “strong backlash from fans around the world.”
The organization commented, “This case shows that FIFA’s ticket price policy was not properly solidified and was set too hastily and without gathering appropriate opinions.”
In this year’s North American World Cup, the number of participating countries will increase from 32 to 48, and FIFA’s expected revenue is expected to exceed at least $10 billion (KRW 14.757 trillion). For fans, this means the most expensive admission fee in history.
Despite the backlash against the record-high price, FIFA revealed that it has already received requests to reserve more than 20 million tickets following recent ticket sales.
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