Published on
11/06/2026 - 9:40 GMT+2
FIFA president Gianni Infantino must love the view from Trump Tower. He rents a Manhattan office there, wears MAGA red ties and is called by Donald Trump “the king of soccer”.
FIFA expects to pocket more than three billion dollars from ticket sales and hospitality alone. But corporate pricing has broken the marketplace. Ticket packages to follow a team to the final are now estimated to cost five times more than four years ago.
Moreover, nearly 180,000 tickets are flooding the official resale market, and median resale prices have plunged by 20% in a single month.
