World Cup final tickets go on sale for £1.7m each

FIFA’s official “resale/exchange marketplace” website for the match on 19 July shows four seats available for $2,299,998.85 (£1.7m).

A handful of other tickets in the same section, behind one of the goals, are also on sale for the comparatively bargain price of $16,098 (£11,953).

FIFA doesn’t set the asking prices on the resale site, but it does take a 15% fee from both the seller and the buyer of those tickets—meaning it could theoretically make nearly $600,000 from a single ticket sale. The fee is already factored into the asking price.

A screenshot of FIFA’s resale website showing tickets on sale for the final

Organizers are already under fire for the steep ticket prices for the tournament, which will be co-hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the USA, and is set to kick off on June 11.

Resale tickets for previous World Cups were capped at face value.

In response to the criticisms, in December FIFA introduced a small number of $60 (£45) cheaper tickets.

More than five million tickets have already been sold for this year’s event, with the final phase of ticket sales opening earlier this week.