The World Cup 2026 match between Switzerland and Qatar in San Francisco featured numerous empty seats, raising further questions about FIFA's ticket pricing strategy for the tournament.

It's still a little too soon to tell if FIFA erred significantly in its unprecedentedly expensive World Cup ticket pricing scheme.

FIFA was desperate to avoid that visual heading into this summer's soccer festival, having drastically cut ticket prices for all 104 matches in a bid to entice more supporters to…