£420 each. FOUR HUNDRED and twenty pounds each. That's not profiteering by the way. The face value is €495, there's a picture on there. People have more money than sense!
The whole competition is a complete rip off. I applied for about 8,000€ worth of tickets and got absolutely nothing, and that was the cheapest categories! They're selling 0.5% beer inside the stadiums for 13€(I think). Real football fans are getting absolutely fleeced by UEFA.
Seriously?! I got four tickets per game in Ukraine for every match except the final, and paid under £500 for the lot. Alcohol free "beer" was about €2 a pint in the stadium, and real beer under a euro in all the surrounding bars.
I pretty much applied for every single game, in the hope I'd get at least one! The ticket prices from the QF onwards are absolutely ridiculous, pretty sure the 400€ tickets are the lowest category too.
No wonder you get so many ...... pictures of fans sobbing when they've lost, there would probably still be a tear trickling down my cheek if my team had won! sorry but that's outrageous to attend a football match
Cheapest ticket for final is €85 directly behind the goal for the semi final it's €65 and if you had bought the cheapest tickets (behind the goals) for all four of England's games you would have spent 85 quid in total. I spent 60 odd to watch league 1 Barnsley in the JPT. Im not excusing the highest price bands or saying it's right but it isn't quite as it's being made out to be either. And the beer was 6.5 euros at England games. £5.50.
That's absolutely outrageous. Russia 2018 will be much better value, as there are rules stating that the lowest category of tickets should be affordable for local citizens on an average wage. So I reckon even the later stages will have tickets floating round for under a hundred euros each.
"under a hundred euros" still sounds expensive though. Don't really understand why these tournaments should be so expensive. While there have been good elements in most games that I have seen, there has been a fair bit of mediocrity as well. Portugal potentially getting to the final without winning a single group match for example. Germany looking pretty ordinary at times, but looking like finalists again if they get past France. I suppose Wales fans will be paying those kind of prices because of the novelty of just being where they are. Much like us paying Wembley a premium price for a a rare visit. It's ridiculous though what some sporting and music events cost these days.
That has definitely changed in price then. When they were first released(months ago) there wasn't any tickets for the final available anywhere near that price.
I agree. On the flip side of that though I saw that the Invictus Games (Prince Harry's games for wounded soldiers) were being held in Orlando whilst we were there which we fancied going to. I wasn't sure what price to expect (obviously it doesn't have popularity anywhere near the actual Olympics etc.) but I got a shock when I saw that they were only 12 dollars total for both the bronze and gold medal wheelchair basketball matches. 12 DOLLARS not even 12 quid for 2 matches (including the final) - bargain!
Ignore the bad press - it'll be brilliant, especially in Moscow, St Petersburg and Kazan. Not so sure about the provinces mind, they're a bit like Rotherham on a bad day. In the 1980's.
I went to the cricket world cup in Sri Lanka and paid $0.25 (£0.17) for the best tickets in the ground. Paid less for some other games sat in the midst of the locals. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Before we went to the World Cup in 2006 one of the lads paid £200 and travelled down to Swindon to pick up a ticket for one of the group games, we thought he was mad, but then we got to Germany and two of the lads ending up paying £500 each for tickets v Sweden. Mentalists for 90 mins of football.
As I said, more money than sense, some people. I've been a huge football fan all my life but I have never understood the need to pay exorbitant prices for tickets. As long as there are individuals and organisations who are willing to pay these prices, it will only get worse. The more they can fleece the ordinary fan on the street, the better. After all, especially if you are following a team that has never been there, you are going to get plenty of demand for seats so, naturally, UEFA or FIFA or whoever will pitch the prices as high as possible. It's obscene but nothing will change. Those who can afford it will stump up their hundreds of pounds to see "their boys" and so it will go on.