DUBAI: Fifa president Gianni Infantino defended the ticket prices for next year’s World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico, citing heavy demand for them and the revenue generated for the sport around the world.
This month fan groups criticised the cost of tickets, which were several times more expensive than those for similar matches at the 2022 tournament. Fifa then launched a US$60 ticket tier to make the games more affordable for fans of qualified teams.
“We have six or seven million tickets on sale … in 15 days, we received 150 million ticket requests. So, 10 million ticket requests every single day. It shows how powerful the World Cup is,” Infantino said on Monday at the World Sports Summit in Dubai.