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Circle insiders email just went out. Tickets available in all price ranges for our group stage matches
Were they cheaper than the ones already listed? Because I wonder why. Filtering out all the resale ones, there’s still a lot of seats left from the initial sale for all the U.S. group games it looks like. I would love it if they can do this for the final, whether the U.S. makes it not.
Yeah, not at these prices. With a few exceptions, they also should have closed off the top sections of these gigantic stadiums. Would have led to better atmospheres. Hopefully it will be a great tournament because everything about it so far has sucked.
Yep, at $100 to sit in the upper level, they’ve priced out the casual fan by about a factor of two. This isn’t the World Cup and shouldn’t be priced like it is. Regardless, it’ll be fun in the stadiums. Always is.
Atlanta definitely would have sold out if tickets were priced more optimally. They have a massive footballing fanbase and the USMNT hasn't been there in 9 years. Kansas City might have sold out with better prices since Uruguay is a borderline "marquee opponent", although we did play Uruguay in KC relatively recently (2 years ago). Now our opening game was never going to sell out since Bolivia is our weakest opponent and we literally just played at JerryWorld last window.
They won't do that either, trust me. Nothing about this is with atmosphere in mind, it's purely profit maxing -- that doesn't happen by closing the upper deck. But yes we agree, it'd be much better if they did! At the end of the day US Soccer has very little control over anything here, other than stadium selection.
For your Euro and Copa viewing pleasure (Olympics on the way) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...6Lulw2ibuiPeoX1MVV-hfI/edit?pli=1&gid=0#gid=0
CONMEBOL's commercial chief, Juan Emilio Roa, told me today that the 2024 Copa América recently surpassed 1 million tickets sold.That's over 31,000 per game. Roughly 50% of capacity across all games.In 2016, total attendance at the Copa América Centenario was 1.48 million.— Henry Bushnell (@HenryBushnell) June 7, 2024
Anyone else still waiting for USSF to send tickets bought through them for the "Circle" sale? Bolivia game is not far off, and it's crickets from USSF (I tried emailing them but no response yet).
I live in Albuquerque, I don't know if we're going to Phoenix or Vegas for the quarters, but I can drive either way. Could I hold off on tickets until are location is final, or am I gouged if it ends up being US vs Brazil in Phoenix?
Such a shame.. watching Euros and the organizers set aside massive areas for the teams supporters... dished out via the federation. Copa is just going to me a massive mix of both team fans with 1 f-ing section for US fans. Such a complete oversight.
I'm waiting to see what location we will play out and see if USSF/AO has anything. If not then will just buy secondary market at the normal markup.
Not sure what to tell you if you think it's an oversight. It's a last minute thrown together tournament that doesn't have their own lottery/ticketing process and they outsource everything to the resale market kings. The only real goal is to profit maximize and they don't think they can draw very many fans from outside of the United States anyway, so they don't bother. I think they could if it was well planned further out with a clear lottery ticketing process + a process for individual federation fan groups. All of the above aside, it's not really apples-to-apples --> expecting tens of thousands of fans per country to travel from South America to the US ( ~$1200 round trip) for the Copa America (2 years before the World Cup is here) isn't very realistic. In comparison, most fans for the Euros are able to travel by train for < $100. Regardless, your point holds true -- the atmosphere is going to be significantly worse in every stadium and there will be nowhere near the same pre-game pageantry. IMHO the best approach for *this* Copa America would have been to have it in 3 cities (all close to each other on the East Coast to limit some of the travel needs) and have a lotto-system plus tickets set aside for federations.
There are a lot of tickets left for this game. I would just see how the US is doing in group stage. A US - Brazil game would be higher draw but even then I’m not sure if they would actually sell out at the prices they went with.