Even with plenty of World Cup tickets unsold, the resale market for the global event beginning Thursday in North America remains stubbornly high.
As the tournament formally starts with two matches in Mexico, each one of the 16 group-stage markets has an average get-in ticket price of more than $300 on the resale market.
According to aggregated ticket information from Ticket Data, all 16 of those markets have also seen average price increases this week, with seven of them escalating by double-digit percentages. Four group-stage locales—Guadalajara, Mexico City, Miami, and New York—still have an average get-in price of more than $1,000.
The overall average get-in price of $665 as of Thursday morning for group-stage matches is essentially identical to December, when the tournament draw happened and the World Cup ticket lottery opened.
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