Posted on 05/30/2026 1:28:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Thousands of tickets remain unsold for the United States’ high-priced World Cup opener, with data captured by The Athletic and other sources suggesting that the game is not on pace to sell out at current prices and purchasing rates.
As of Thursday evening, two weeks before the 2026 World Cup begins, there were more than 3,500 tickets available on FIFA’s primary portal for the June 12 match between the U.S. and Paraguay.
There were also over 6,500 tickets listed on FIFA’s resale platform, meaning there are over 10,000 tickets available for the match, which was initially billed as one of the tournament’s most attractive games.
The 6,500 (and many more listed on third-party resale sites) are tickets that have been sold or distributed, either to fans or scalpers, but are now being offered to prospective buyers. It’s unclear how many would be used if they don’t re-sell.
The 3,500, on the other hand, have not been sold, and there could be even more not yet listed for sale. FIFA has held back tickets throughout the sales process, and does not publicly reveal sales or availability data.
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Are they going to serve bugs at the concession stands?
Soccer just doesn’t appeal to america
Too little scoring. Watching it’s like listening to a broken record.
The NFL is the opposite. They want more scoring so the running game has little effect on the game other than to run out the clock. Baseball has the DH-it stinks.
Soccer’s been around longer and is world-wide. Will our football take over the world like salsa replacing ketchup?
If a touchdown was worth 1 point the scores would be similar to soccer scores.
And naturally today’s Champions League Final went to penalty kicks.
expanding the field to 48 teams means that most of the teams are very mediocre and a game between two good teams is rare.
the US team is borderline worth watching. Paraguay is not worth watching.
what did they expect?
That’s definitely not true. Ridiculous ticket prices that are out of reach for working Americans is the problem. I’ve been at the World Cup abroad, and there were a ton of Americans there. I took my son to a reasonably priced ‘friendly’ between Real Madrid and Manchester United at the U of Michigan football stadium in Ann Arbor and ~106,000 people showed up. The prices now are out of control.
I mean, watching my kids play soccer was boring and I love my kids. Watching a bunch of grown men playing it - I wouldn’t go if they paid me those exorbitant ticket prices. No offense to those who do enjoy the game, and happy viewing to them.
I wonder if the original prices were set too high for fans and the scalpers hoped to drive them even higher. I would love to see the scalpers get stuck with a bunch of tickets they paid a lot for.
Whatever you want to believe…
If soccer appealed to America it would be popular. Period
Anyway:
“ In America, the average ticket price for American football is roughly \(\$300\), whereas soccer matches average about \(\$105\).”
I think a lot of people are just going to show up the day of the game and get the tickets cheap.
Why would any American want to go to a global soccer event on the nation’s 250th anniversary?
Soccer can be fun. But not much.
I used to take the kids to major and minor league baseball. They lost me with four hours of play for an hour of action. At least 15 years since I went to a game or watched one on TV.
NASCAR lost me when they got all gay and stuff. I was a thirty-year fan until they went woke. I haven’t watched a race in almost 20 years.
NFL lost me with all the kneeling stuff some years ago.
Olympics? Crash and burn. Now that so many US athletes hate America.
You know what I like now?
Banana Ball https://www.youtube.com/@officialbananaball
King of the Hammers https://kingofthehammers.com/
Especially when we won’t make it out of the Group Stage.
Thanks for mentioning soccer.
I had no clue what the World Cup was.
And now that I know, I still don’t care.
I guess the millionaires are tapped out thanks to their increasing tax burden. They’re the only group that can afford those ticket prices.
Stub Hub cheap seats are $899 each, supposedly including fees. There are more expensive seats, too.
Some are now discounted.
Most of us are still too busy paying for demo-somali frauds and just can’t swing that this year.
Sorry, FIFA. Besides, survey says Americans think FIFA is only slightly less awful than the Olymic Committee.
I sure as Hell will not be paying any attention at all to that nonsense.
Football has 4 different point rewards. 1,2,3,6.
That is why is isn’t boring.
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