FIFA sucks.

[DomerInHappyValley]

I don't know if anyone else has been looking, but I just checked prices for a WC ticket for my daughter and myself in Philly.

I could buy a car for the price of some of them.

Great job hurting soccer in the USA right as the sport was making some headway in this country.

 

[IrishBryan77]

I don't know if anyone else has been looking, but I just checked prices for a WC ticket for my daughter and myself in Philly.

I could buy a car for the price of some of them.

Great job hurting soccer in the USA right as the sport was making some headway in this country.

College football will eventually say "hold my beer" the way things are going.

 

[Ophiocordyceps]

You must have missed the memo on structural corruption and slave labor. Yes, they do indeed suck. The question is do they suck more than the CFB playoff committee?

 

[calvegas04]

I don't know if anyone else has been looking, but I just checked prices for a WC ticket for my daughter and myself in Philly.

I could buy a car for the price of some of them.

Great job hurting soccer in the USA right as the sport was making some headway in this country.

I think they are releasing cheap tickets to the supporter clubs like the Outlaws

 

[InKellyWeTrust]

FIFA is about as corrupt as it gets. This has been known for decades.

 

[IA4irish]

I wanted to take my son. It’s going to be cheaper to take my entire family to Europe than to go to some second rate group stage match

 

[Bluto]

I wanted to take my son. It’s going to be cheaper to take my entire family to Europe than to go to some second rate group stage match

I’d rather attend a premier league match or the Celtic vs the Rangers as opposed to a World Cup match.

 

[NorthDakota]

Its a weird bind insofar as tickets should be priced to get the tickets sold. But with the apparent demand its kinda shitty.

I am just kinda assuming that FIFA is assuming Americans have money and will buy tickets at that price point...and enough of the foreigners coming are high rollers enough to also buy tickets. Something like that

 

[IrishInOntario]

Bought 5th row tickets behind the ND bench at Boston College this year for my two buddies and myself. Paid $2400.00 usd for the three.

Bought 2nd deck tickets for games 1-2 of the World Series for my dad, my uncle and I. Paid $9450.00 usd for the the six tickets.

Sporting events in general are just wildly priced, especially if you care to sit in good seats!

When you're talking FIFA in particular, you're also dealing with Europeans and South Americans that save for 4 years to go watch their team play a couple of matches, no matter where the World Cup is located. That's who you're open competing with for tickets.

 

[IA4irish]

Bought 5th row tickets behind the ND bench at Boston College this year for my two buddies and myself. Paid $2400.00 usd for the three.

Bought 2nd deck tickets for games 1-2 of the World Series for my dad, my uncle and I. Paid $9450.00 usd for the the six tickets.

Sporting events in general are just wildly priced, especially if you care to sit in good seats!

When you're talking FIFA in particular, you're also dealing with Europeans and South Americans that save for 4 years to go watch their team play a couple of matches, no matter where the World Cup is located. That's who you're open competing with for tickets.

That is an insane amount to pay. Good for you guys and I hope you have the time of your life.

It came down for me: spend 10 grand to go to Houston (not the best city in my opinion but I have family there) or use that money to fly my wife and kids to Europe.

 

[IrishInOntario]

That is an insane amount to pay. Good for you guys and I hope you have the time of your life.

It came down for me: spend 10 grand to go to Houston (not the best city in my opinion but I have family there) or use that money to fly my wife and kids to Europe.

Yeah dude! In the world we live in, you have to make some choices. I splurge on 3 or 4 bigger sporting events per year, then sprinkle in some NHL, NBA and MLB regular season. Maybe 15 events total. Between that and a couple trips to the U.S. each year, 7-10 days in the Carribean with the family and some ski trips within Canada... That's us basically tapped out of travel funds.

 

[Irish Norseman]

Wow! The world’s most popular sport having their biggest event in a top destination country and ticket prices are through the roof. Color me shocked!

 

[IA4irish]

Wow! The world’s most popular sport having their biggest event in a top destination country and ticket prices are through the roof. Color me shocked!

It’s not that people don’t want to pay for the tickets. It’s that it’s basically impossible to get them except through third party vendors. I don’t know anybody who got them through “the lottery” system. There is just so much shady stuff around trying to get into these games

 

[stlnd01]

I just today put in for four tickets to a Boston game in the lottery. $400 apiece, which I guess is what it costs to watch Scotland play Haiti.
If I get it, cool, if not I’ll probably wait and see if prices come back to earth, bc they’re 2x that on Stubhub right now.

 

[IrishInOntario]

I just today put in for four tickets to a Boston game in the lottery. $400 apiece, which I guess is what it costs to watch Scotland play Haiti.
If I get it, cool, if not I’ll probably wait and see if prices come back to earth, bc they’re 2x that on Stubhub right now.

$400 a piece isn't too bad at all though... I make my way to Toronto for 4-5 Leafs games per year. Given that we're making the 5 hour drive we usually make sure get lower level tickets. Even on a Tuesday or Thursday night you're looking at $325-$400 for a regular season game. On a Saturday night you're probably starting around $400 and getting upward of $550.

So when you consider thay the World Cup comes once every 4 years and comes to your country maybe twice in your lifetime... $400 is pretty reasonable, regardless who is playing. And, of course, by reasonable I mean... Reasonable according the domestic + international market demand for them.

 

[sfk324]

I just today put in for four tickets to a Boston game in the lottery. $400 apiece, which I guess is what it costs to watch Scotland play Haiti.
If I get it, cool, if not I’ll probably wait and see if prices come back to earth, bc they’re 2x that on Stubhub right now.

The prices for that match are inflated in the hopes of keeping the people from Scottish Soccer Hooligan Weekly out of the stadium.

 

[stlnd01]

$400 a piece isn't too bad at all though... I make my way to Toronto for 4-5 Leafs games per year. Given that we're making the 5 hour drive we usually make sure get lower level tickets. Even on a Tuesday or Thursday night you're looking at $325-$400 for a regular season game. On a Saturday night you're probably starting around $400 and getting upward of $550.

So when you consider thay the World Cup comes once every 4 years and comes to your country maybe twice in your lifetime... $400 is pretty reasonable, regardless who is playing. And, of course, by reasonable I mean... Reasonable according the domestic + international market demand for them.

Oh I agree. Regular season tickets to Bruins (good seats) or Patriots (any seats) can cost similar. And there are large Haitian and Scottish communities in New England. It's a once-in-a-generation, at least, sort of event and I have a teenager who's pretty serious about soccer. So yes we also just pledged our allegiance to Haiti and Morocco in hopes of landing tickets in their supporters sections as well.

 

[TorontoGold]

….the tickets being ~$700 USD isn’t that bad? You’re going to a tier 1 city and seeing the most popular sport in the world. Pretty wild they didn’t have Chicago as a venue, with it being the only big midwest city.

 

[sfk324]

….the tickets being ~$700 USD isn’t that bad? You’re going to a tier 1 city and seeing the most popular sport in the world. Pretty wild they didn’t have Chicago as a venue, with it being the only big midwest city.

Chicago withdrew their bid to host

 

[IrishBryan77]

Oh I forgot......

Ps ......soccer SUUUUUUUUCKS.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

….the tickets being ~$700 USD isn’t that bad? You’re going to a tier 1 city and seeing the most popular sport in the world. Pretty wild they didn’t have Chicago as a venue, with it being the only big midwest city.

It's been a war zone here for like 15 years or something. Case you haven't heard.

 

[jerseyborn1971]

As much as we don't get it, for the rest of the world, a single game ticket might as well be the Super Bowl. I worked in bar in Orlando just a walk away from the venue during World Cup 1994. That was the craziest shit I've ever seen. We had Netherlands, Ireland, Mexico and Italy. The amount of drinking and partying was off the charts.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

No tailgating, $150 train tickets to MetLife Stadium. Keeps getting better.

This World Cup is going to be a shitshow on multiple levels and then when it's over we'll have people wondering why we can't get the sport to grow here. Like everything else, common sense would show you the answers are directly in front of our faces.

 

[dublinirish]

As much as we don't get it, for the rest of the world, a single game ticket might as well be the Super Bowl. I worked in bar in Orlando just a walk away from the venue during World Cup 1994. That was the craziest shit I've ever seen. We had Netherlands, Ireland, Mexico and Italy. The amount of drinking and partying was off the charts.

lol those Orlando games were brutal for Ireland like noon kickoffs in 120 F weather pitchside

 

[burmafrd1944]

Soccer will never rival the big three in this country. Just reality. Best it can do is push out Hockey.

Lots of kids play soccer but once they get to high school they drop out

it simply does not appeal sufficiently to enough for it to ever be more

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

Soccer will never rival the big three in this country. Just reality. Best it can do is push out Hockey.

Lots of kids play soccer but once they get to high school they drop out

it simply does not appeal sufficiently to enough for it to ever be more

Soccer reportedly overtakes baseball in the U.S. as America's third favorite sport | FOX Sports

Soccer's rise in the United States took another step forward as the sport is reportedly now the third most popular sport in the country. According to a recent survey by The Economist, the sport has now surpassed baseball among Americans' favorite sports, ranking behind only American football and...

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Most sports see a dip in retention from ages 13-17. Soccer is no different in that respect.

 

[burmafrd1944]

Soccer reportedly overtakes baseball in the U.S. as America's third favorite sport | FOX Sports

Soccer's rise in the United States took another step forward as the sport is reportedly now the third most popular sport in the country. According to a recent survey by The Economist, the sport has now surpassed baseball among Americans' favorite sports, ranking behind only American football and...

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Most sports see a dip in retention from ages 13-17. Soccer is no different in that respect.

sure it has. For those under 16. And soccer is definitely different. the drop off is HUGE but then you soccer fools never deal well with reality
The interest all around is never going to be there for soccer in the US.

 

[PolishDomer]

sure it has. For those under 16. And soccer is definitely different. the drop off is HUGE but then you soccer fools never deal well with reality
The interest all around is never going to be there for soccer in the US.

Completely wrong...both of my sons are competitive HS junior players with interest from college soccer programs...
One of my twins is playing in Italy and just found out today from him he had a trial with a Serie D club, ASD Olimpus Roma where the coach is interested in him. Whats interesting is they are a feeder academy for AS Roma...
Completely disagree...soccer is HUGE in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs...i tell my kids there really is no need to chase the patches and travel all over the US when some of the top teams are here in Chicago and just play locally.

 

[burmafrd1944]

Completely wrong...both of my sons are competitive HS junior players with interest from college soccer programs...
One of my twins is playing in Italy and just found out today from him he had a trial with a Serie D club, ASD Olimpus Roma where the coach is interested in him. Whats interesting is they are a feeder academy for AS Roma...
Completely disagree...soccer is HUGE in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs...i tell my kids there really is no need to chase the patches and travel all over the US when some of the top teams are here in Chicago and just play locally.

wow you quote one city and think its all over. Tell me dude, what crowds do college soccer teams draw. MLS has how many per year?
you soccer bots are pathetic

 

[DCK_1981]

Not just FIFA have you seen the prices of thr Olympic tickets. It would cost our family of 4 over $1000 to just go watch badminton