Scandal denounced one year from the 2026 World Cup organized in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Tickets for the final of this World Cup 26, on July 19, 2026 at the Metlife Stadium in the suburbs of New York, are offered at an incredible price on an American resale site. It is a platform well known by the Chelsea supporters, because Todd Boehly, a billionaire Statesunian who bought the London club (and which is the president), is one of the leaders of VIVID SEATSpartner of San Francisco 49ers or the charge.
Blues fans played the whistleblowers last month, denouncing the excessive prices for certain match tickets to Stamford Bridge on the American resale site. The controversy was such that the British government launched a campaign to prevent balloon fans of the resale sites of match tickets. This time, it's the British media News who conducted his little investigation after finding tickets for the 2026 World Cup on VIVID SEATS While FIFA has not yet marketed them.
On this very popular site in the US, tickets for certain group phase matches at Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles are sold more than 40,000 euros and tickets for the final of the world of July 19 range from 5,794 to 54,484 euros! Yes,
vividseats.com Offers tickets at the forefront behind the benches of more than 50,000 euros, not forgetting to mention that Coldplay assured the half-time show in the enclosure of the New Jersey at 82,500 seats.
Tickets for the 2026 World Cup soon available
The scam is well characterized, because the precise resale site:
“Vivid Seats will sell tickets for the World Cup as soon as they are available, generally several months before the match itself”. The company based in Chicago therefore proposes to buy tickets for the next World Cup on its site knowing very well that FIFA has not yet launched the sales phase of tickets for its quadrennial tournament.
News alerted the international body and obtained an answer: “FIFA encourages any supporter wishing to buy tickets for the FIFA 2026 World Cup to be wary of unofficial ticket sites that already claim to sell tickets and buy tickets only with the official and legitimate source once they are available”. It will probably be for this summer. For his part, VIVID SEATS Recalls that prices are set by resellers registered on the site.
