I will put this info here so someone else could create the individual game threads: http://www.mlssoccer.com/copa-ameri...-copa-america-centenario-june-3-levis-stadium
I plan on travelling to each US group stage game with a pretty sizable group. Should be incredible atmospheres for these games. Can't wait!
Levi's isn't my favorite place to see a game. Parking is kind of a hassle, and it's a long walk from the parking to the stadium. They used the stupid NFL bag policy at the Quakes games I've been to there. I haven't tailgated there. Transit (light rail) is packed but it's a good way to get in and out and drops you closer to the stadium than the parking lots. Edit to add: just realized this game is on a Friday. Traffic will be holy hell. Much of the parking is in lots around office buildings in the area - for NFL games, and the soccer games that have been held there, those lots are empty because those events have been on the weekend, but on a Friday those lots will be used by the people that work in those buildings. Traffic around there isn't pretty at rush hour on weekdays, and throwing in an event at Levi's will make it extra fun. I know, I sound like Debbie Downer. I'm still going to the game, it will just be logistically challenging.
Who has tickets? Anyone buying a venue pass just to get the US game and planning on selling the rest?
No sorry, it was directly from Copa America not USsoccer. I guess I registered for it a long time ago.
This is the only way to get US tickets, right? Unless they don't manage to sell out the Venue tickets, in which case they'll sell them individually (not sure when they'll start to do this). I'm still on the fence as to whether I'll buy the Venue tickets or just hope they don't sell out of them so I can buy an individual US ticket. I think if you're going to buy the venue tickets, you may as well wait until the draw though. I doubt 70k people will buy venue tickets prior to the draw and you can't really resell the individual tickets until the draw happens anyway. The people that buy before the draw will only have, at most, a day's head start on you in reselling their tickets. But by waiting, you'll know what the other games are so you can kind of determine how difficult it'll be to resell the other tickets.
You're aware that those are the prices for Venue tickets right? So for Philadelphia (I assume that's the one you looked at), it's three matches. Looked like $150 for upper level and $225 for lower level behind the goal, which is $50 and $75 per ticket respectively. Of course, the reselling is a big issue. Some people aren't going to be able to resell the other individual tickets, so they'll actually end up paying $150 or $225+ for just one game.
You are definitely right about needing to divide the venue cost by the number of games. That part almost makes the ticketmaster add ons reasonable for a change.... It's hard to know how reselling will work out, which was part of why I raised the subject. I'd like to thing this is going to be a really big thing, and that the combination of soccer fanatics and country-specific fans will go a long way toward filling the stadiums. And, certainly possible that some games will go at a profit, right? But it feels expensive enough that they've taken a decent chunk out of resell market. The head start will be in terms of getting "better" tickets, rather than when you start selling them. Tickets have been on presale for 4 days now, with the presale expanding today. It will be easier to sell row 7 than row 14, right? Which teams will be guaranteed to resale at cost or above? Mexico, Brazil, Argentina. Anyone else? Those games are known, and if you want, you can even gamble on the quarterfinals that they'll be in. A Mexico quarterfinal will surely be worth a lot....
I would not invest in this trying to make a profit. Some games are going to sell well, but then... you are probably going to want to go to those games hence why you bought the ticket? There's a reason they are selling venue passes first. They want as many people locked in on this before knowing the schedule. The games you won't want to go to you'll probably be best off selling ASAP on stubhub or whatever just trying to recoup costs.
I hate the whole stadium pass crap. It locks people in, and then jacks up the resale price of tickets to the finals. Why is a casual fan getting the Stadium Pass in Cali need tickets to the final in New York. To Resell, and make the price even crazier for the casual fan. I will be buying through AO for the group stage, and scalping from there.
Shame, I'd have gone for the Levi's pass (Santa Clara) but I already had a vacation planned out that starts 1 day after our first game. I'm hoping that all the gougers don't buy up a bunch of venue passes and leave us single game buyers with few options.
It'll still come down to demand. I don't think a US game is going to command huge markups in a 60k+ stadium.
I agree, but I bet you the games easily sell out, especially with the markets of the teams we will be facing.
That seems logical and I sure hope you're right. We don't get meaningful US games in the San Francisco Bay Area though and I'm not entirely sure that the tickets wouldn't go pretty quickly if we got one of the South American countries with a sizeable immigrant population in California. All we have to go off of are meaningless friendlies like the last one played against Azerbaijan.
I got my venue pass for NRG stadium earlier this week. I really just want to make it to the semi-final game, figure whatever I lose in resale in the first game (final group game between two teams in our group), I can make up in the Mexico game.
The key is to wait it out, if it sells out there are a billion tickets on stubhub. You'll get a better deal on gameday or the day before than buying early. People were buying USA-Mexico tickets for like a thousand dollars right after the game sold out. On game day they were almost face. Soccer games just aren't all that profitable for ticket scalpers here. Of all the past US games vs South American opposition, granted they were friendlies, most tickets were going for face or less.