FIFA tripled the price of its best available tickets to the World Cup final, making $32,970 seats available Thursday for the July 19 match at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, per the the AP. Soccer's governing body previously had a high price of $10,990. Tickets for the July 14 semifinal at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, were listed at up to $11,130. Seats for the following day's semifinal at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium were up to $10,635, and seats for the US opener against Paraguay on June 12 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, were available for up to $2,735.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has defended the ticket prices. "We have to look at the market," he said Tuesday at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California. "We are in a market in which entertainment is the most developed in the world, so we have to apply market rates."
On the FIFA Resale/Exchange Marketplace, tickets for the final were available Thursday ranging from $11,499,998 to $8,970. The high price was listed for a ticket four rows from the top of the upper deck, in block 307, row 22, seat 12. FIFA does not control the asking prices on its Resale/Exchange Marketplace but takes a 15% purchase fee from the buyer of each ticket and a 15% resale fee from the seller. US Reps. Frank Pallone and Nellie Pou, both New Jersey Democrats, sent a letter to Infantino on Thursday asking for details by May 22 on FIFA's pricing.
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