Thousands of tickets remain available for the FIFA World Cup bronze medal match between England and France, while even Sunday’s final has not completely sold out.
As of 10:00 BST on Friday, around 7,000 tickets were still listed on FIFA’s official ticketing platforms for Saturday’s third-place playoff in Miami, which kicks off at 22:00 BST.
A total of 1,246 tickets were available on general sale, priced at $865 (£657) and $1,125 (£855). Another 5,864 tickets were listed on FIFA’s official resale platform, with the cheapest category three tickets available at their face value of $455 (£346), plus FIFA’s mandatory 15% resale fee.
Many resale listings have been heavily discounted below their original purchase prices. For example, a category one ticket originally sold for $1,125 (£855) is currently listed for $659 (£500).
Sunday’s World Cup final has also not reached a complete sell-out. Thirty-two of the most expensive standard tickets remain available through FIFA’s general sale platform, with prices ranging from $29,995 (£22,796) to $32,970 (£25,057). These are standard admission tickets and do not include VIP packages.
More than 1,000 tickets are also available on FIFA’s resale platform for the final, with several listed close to their original face value. Those tickets were initially sold for $7,380 (£5,609), meaning buyers must also pay FIFA’s additional 15% resale fee, amounting to $1,107 (£841).
The highest-priced resale listing for the World Cup final currently stands at an extraordinary $2 million (£1.52 million), with an additional FIFA resale fee of $300,000 (£228,000).
FIFA notes that resale prices are determined by individual ticket holders and do not necessarily reflect the prices that buyers are willing to pay.
