World Cup ticket prices dropping on resale market as Fifa triples ‘best’ price for final
News comes not long after its president, Gianni Infantino, defends the high costs and attributes them to the demand in the US market
The current get-in price for a group stage game at the 2026 Fifa World Cup has dropped 17.1 per cent on the secondary market in the past two weeks, according to data from the ticket tracking service TicketData.com on Thursday.
The news comes as Fifa released a new batch of World Cup tickets for sale not long after its president, Gianni Infantino, defended the high costs and attributed them to the demand in the US market.
The average get-in price (the cheapest ticket available) currently sits at US$567, down from US$684 14 days ago and a whopping US$720 30 days ago. The latter represents a 21.2 per cent price drop in the past month.
In all, 87 of the 91 matches taking place in the United States and Canada have seen their get-in price fall over the past 14 days.
The dip comes amid growing conversation about the high costs of tickets and travel for the first 48-team World Cup, to be held across the US, Mexico and Canada from June 11 to July 19. President Donald Trump admitted on Thursday that “I wouldn’t pay it either” when asked about a US$1,000 get-in price for the US men’s national team’s opening game against Paraguay on June 12 in Los Angeles.
Per TicketData.com’s figures, the US venue that has seen the greatest drop in get-in price is Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, where the secondary market costs have declined by 29.5 per cent in the past 30 days. Houston’s NRG Stadium has had the greatest 14-day decline (22.8 per cent) of the 11 American stadiums hosting games.