Going to North America '26: tickets, accommodations, etc. (non-politics)

Yep, and I for sure will stay away. Will focus on 2030.

I can afford it. I just don’t want to.

 

Everything great is limited. Those fans will be happy.

 

The Swiss will probably have a bad tournament anyway.
You are saving yourself some grief.

 

Don't want to get political but look who the head of the government is and look that the Broligarchs at the inauguration. They couldn't give a stuff about the consumer.
If you going for the 'glamour' games - you have a huge problem. People on this page are proper football people. Sadly - if you follow a 'glamour' team, the tickets will be priced accordingly.
My planning is based on avoiding the hosts and avoiding Mexico City, LA, NY and Toronto. I gave up on the final over a year. It is bigger than the Superbowl - and have a look at how much that costs.

 

These decisions are made despite of who is in political power.
Stop trying to blame everything on one side.

 

All you care about is the “outcome” (or is it the optics?) - not the process.

What can I say, I have a very different outlook.

 

No.
I just understand how business works and how simple supply and demand can be applied.

 

People bring up concerts and Taylor Swift.

I see it more like Disney World. As the years go by they seem to price out the middle class and low income families. Yet they still make profits and know they will always sell tickets.
Do I hate it personally? Pretty much. DO I understand why they do it? Yes.

 

I also work in a business and we treat our customers right. In fact, I am in charge of this aspect (compliance). A business relationship should be based on a notion of fairness, transparency, and mutual benefit.

 

You are not Disney. Or FIFA.
Obviously.

 

So how has UEFA (a much bigger organisation than FIFA) managed to remain reasonably transparent and stayed away from dynamic pricing?

 

Many reasons. Reaction like yours and futbol mentality being more of the grassroots people culture sorta thing.
But I think it is only a matter of time even Europe may try it.

 

I will take that as a compliment.

 

See the quote in the article about FIFA getting all the money means that they won't use Ticketmaster. That is the local organizer. FIFA is more than capable of implementing dynamic pricing themselves.

 

Yeah- but so what? How many of those tickets will there actually BE?
Am sick of this sugar coating. Have a look at the Superbowl. How many non-celebs - ordinary fans - were there? They will advertise the 'fan' tickets but I suspect hardly anyone on here will get one.
The fix was in on the RTBs. They obviously have a client 'journalist' at the NYT/Athletic- but where have they been on the RTBs. These pages are better than the 'journalism' we are getting.
And is Qatar had done this - would be on EVERY front page.

 

interesting... good point

 

superbowl is VIP, celebs and hospitality packages. No general sales ever. likely how the final and most top matches will be except for the 2 sections behind goal for the teams.

 

During every single press conference around the country I have seen people say that this is like Multiple Super Bowls in one tournament.

It is what it is.

 

Well going through Ticketmaster, StubHub, etc. makes sense as these providers have exclusivity contracts with those stadiums to own all venue specific events. I doubt FIFA has a way to void that exclusivity.

 

They already negotiated the stadium deals. FIFA owns the stadiums for the entire month. Any stadium that couldn't deliver without the exclusivity contracts wasn't used. Even Jerry jones will be a guest in his own house. lol

 

@Nico Limmat. I am curious. If you aren't going to this WC and are so angry at the consumerism and greed and whatnot.. why are you wasting your/our time posting here?

Go find a FIFA rant thread or something.

FIFA puts on an amazing WC, everytime. This will be no different. Don't want to come, fine.

 

Yep part of the bid package. FIFA runs the show. Parking, concessions, advertising, tickets, .. everything.

 

I am worried about the precedent that it sets for subsequent editions. I attended the Qatar World Cup and that wasn’t cheap either due to lack of accommodation (I ended up on a fantastic cruise ship). But the ticketing process was managed well and overall fair.

That said, you are right, there are other threads for me to voice my displeasure.

 

you could never expect a lot of good from FIFA, and since Infantino took over you can't expect anything good from them.

weigh in on the decission to go or not to go, is it worth to you or not? that's it, not more and not less!
world cup will always be huge fun, but there should be a limit for every single one of us what we are ready to accept and what becomes too much. it is subjective of course and it can't and it shouldn't be compared.

 

Disappointed but not surprised with this dynamic pricing stuff. It was always on the cards. FIFA has an audience of billions so can do as they please. The bigger games especially qtr finals onwards will be now completely out of reach for the ‘average fan’ unfortunately. Makes the AUD$1,100 or so I paid for cat3 final tickets in Qatar an absolute bargain. A friend here is involved in putting WC tours together which includes tickets for Socceroos games and at this stage this will be my plan. Hopefully try and get to a few other group games around those. Already working extra shifts, putting money aside etc for next year to cover the anticipated rip off prices. FIFA just sucks dammit.