From almost $900 for the opening game to over $8,000 for the final, match tickets are far from cheap for the World Cup, which begins in North America in 100 days.
AFP Sport assesses the cost of attending games at the tournament:
– How many tickets, how much demand? –
According to the world football governing body FIFA, almost seven million tickets have been made available in total. Each person can buy a maximum of four tickets per match and a total of 40 for the whole competition.
Around two million tickets were sold during an initial lottery in October. A second sales phase in December and January was also a lottery and attracted a record 508 million requests, according to FIFA.
It has not said how many tickets have been attributed, but the matches in highest demand were the Group K finale between Colombia and Portugal in Miami on June 27, co-hosts Mexico against South Korea in Guadalajara on June 18, and the final at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on July 19.
