{"id":628630,"date":"2025-12-12T16:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/628630\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:48:23","slug":"fa-urged-to-press-fifa-on-scandalous-world-cup-ticket-prices-by-supporters-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/628630\/","title":{"rendered":"FA urged to press Fifa on ‘scandalous’ World Cup ticket prices by supporters’ group"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Football Association has been asked to lobby Fifa to lower the price of World Cup tickets by a leading supporters’ group.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Football Supporters’ Association (FSA) says the pricing structure for next year’s tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico is “scandalous”.<\/p>\n

It has joined Football Supporters Europe (FSE) in demanding that the sales process is stopped so fans’ groups can hold talks with world governing body Fifa over its pricing policy. <\/p>\n

“We back Football Supporters Europe in calling for a halt in ticket sales and we are calling on the Football Association to work with fellow FAs to directly challenge these disgraceful prices,” the FSA said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“We call on all national associations to stand up for your supporters, without whom there would be no professional game.”<\/p>\n

BBC Sport has contacted Fifa, the FA and the Scottish FA, all of which are yet to comment.<\/p>\n

The huge increase in the price of tickets<\/a> was revealed on Thursday when Fifa released allocation details for the official supporters’ groups of each country. <\/p>\n

At the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, group stage fixtures all had set prices of \u00a368.50, \u00a3164.50 or \u00a3219.<\/p>\n

But for England v Croatia and Scotland v Brazil next year, tickets cost around \u00a3198, \u00a3373 or \u00a3523.<\/p>\n

The cost ramps up considerably in the latter stages.<\/p>\n

Quarter-finals for all teams are \u00a3507, \u00a3757 and \u00a31,073, with the semi-finals \u00a3686, \u00a31,819 and \u00a32,363.<\/p>\n

The cheapest tickets for the final are \u00a33,119, seven times more expensive than in Qatar.<\/p>\n

There are no concessions across any of its tickets for children or other groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Football Association has been asked to lobby Fifa to lower the price of World Cup tickets by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-628630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115707622509456984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}