World Cup ticket prices on secondary markets are continuing to decline as the tournament enters its home stretch, as all three hosts were eliminated plus popular teams in Brazil, Colombia, and Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal.
There are only eight games left following a rash of exhilarating matches, including Argentina’s remarkable Tuesday comeback on the shoulders of superstar Lionel Messi. But despite the tournament’s drama hitting its peak, et get-in prices for the remaining matches on resale markets have plunged.
Compared to where ticket prices were at the start of the round of 16, the average drop across the four quarterfinal matches on resale markets is 52%, and the average across all remaining matches is about 42%, according to information provided to Front Office Sports by resale market tracking site TicketData.
TicketData founder Keith Pagello tells FOS that sellers were mostly pricing these matches around the “best-case, highest-demand scenarios.”
“They were more focused on not leaving money on the table if a heavyweight matchup materialized, rather than pricing in the risk of a less ideal outcome,” he says. “However, the less ideal outcome is basically what happened across the board.”
