Anyone who wants to watch World Cup games will have to put a lot of money on the table next year. Tickets for the games are extremely expensive. But that doesn’t deter people from Germany, as current order figures show.
Despite the discussion about expensive tickets, many people from Germany want to travel to the World Cup next summer. We are in third place worldwide in FIFA’s ticket request table. So far, 138,246 requests have been received from Germany (as of Sunday, 8 a.m.). More than twice as many as from France, for example.
Even more order requests came from Colombia (367,376) and England (140,291). The decisive factor for the statistics is the place of residence; the three World Cup hosts USA, Canada and Mexico are not included. FIFA has received a total of 6.4 million ticket requests so far.
There is a lot of debate about pricing; the ticket prices are exorbitantly high. According to the international fan association Football Supporters Europe, spectators in the respective fan blocks have to pay around 5,900 euros to be able to accompany their teams to a possible final. This is five times as many as at the 2022 World Cup tournament in Qatar, where there was one fewer game up to the final than with 48 participants for the first time.
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The cheapest tickets in the national team’s fan block are for the first preliminary round match in Houston against Curaçao for 155 euros. At least 190 euros must be paid against the Ivory Coast in Toronto and at least 230 euros for the final group game against Ecuador in East Rutherford near New York.
The German Football Association is not involved in the pricing and regrets it. “The World Cup is far away from Germany, and a visit involves a lot of effort and high travel costs anyway,” said sports director Andreas Rettig. “This is also why we would have liked cheaper tickets overall for our fans.”
The top 10 ticket orders for the World Cup
- Colombia 367,376
- England 140.291
- Deutschland 138.246
- Brazil 101,576
- Argentina 101,056
- Ecuador 92.022
- Scotland 78,880
- France 64,394
- Australia 52,189
- Spain 49,002
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