FIFA added new, even more expensive tiers of tickets for this year鈥檚 World Cup, asking up to $4,105 for a front category 1 seat at the U.S. opener against Paraguay in Inglewood, California, on June 12.
Last week, for the match but added new 鈥渇ront category鈥� pricing.
FIFA also added a front category 2 tier to its ticket sales website without public announcement, asking $1,940 to $2,330 for those tickets for the U.S. opener. The new categories were first reported Thursday by The Athletic.
The World Cup will be held from June 11 to July 19 in 16 cities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
Soccer鈥檚 governing body had in its Sept. 9 鈥渢icket products and categories鈥� information called category 1 鈥渢he highest-priced seats, located primarily in the lower tier鈥� but appears to have withheld some seats from that category. It had labeled category 2 as 鈥減ositioned outside of category 1 areas, available in both lower and upper tiers.鈥�
FIFA did not respond to an email sent to its media office seeking comment.
FIFA added seats at up to $3,360 in front category 1 for Canada鈥檚 opener against Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 12 in Toronto.
For round of 16 games, it added $905 seats in Philadelphia.
FIFA last week raised its top ticket price for the final to $10,990 during the glitch-hampered reopening of sales. The price had been $8,680 when FIFA sold tickets after the .
FIFA鈥檚 category 2 tickets for the July 19 game at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, were $7,380, up from $5,575, and category 3 cost $5,785, an increase from $4,185.
No tickets appeared to be available for the final on Thursday on FIFA’s ticket site.
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