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Gianni Infantino responds to criticism for pricing of 2026 edition highlighting \u2018very special\u2019 US market as factor.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 17 Apr 2026<\/span>17 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n FIFA President Gianni Infantino defended high \u200cticket prices for this year\u2019s World Cup in North America by saying \u2060that \u2060the event, which captivates the globe, is the organisation\u2019s only source of income every four years.<\/p>\n Speaking at Semafor\u2019s annual world economy summit in New \u2060York on Friday, Infantino also reiterated that FIFA is a nonprofit organisation that has 211 nations as members.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n \u201cWhat many people don\u2019t know, because, of course, we generate billions in a World \u2060Cup, people don\u2019t know FIFA is a nonprofit organisation, which means all the revenue we generate, we invest them in the organisation of the game, in 211 countries all over the world,\u201d Infantino said on stage during a Q&A session. \u201cThree-quarters of [those countries] \u200cprobably would not be able to have organised football without the grants we could give them. So we always try to find the right balance.\u201d<\/p>\n A check at the secondary-market ticket site StubHub on Friday showed that the most inexpensive ticket for the United States\u2019s World Cup opener on June 12 against Paraguay was listed at $1,359, while tickets in the lower bowl of the Los Angeles venue were priced \u2060as high as $14,000 per seat.<\/p>\n For the World Cup final \u2060in the New York area on July 19, a single ticket in the upper deck was priced at $8,860 and as much as $25,000 in the lower bowl.<\/p>\n After initial complaints about the ticket prices and \u2060availability, FIFA introduced a $60 option that was a small portion of each venue.<\/p>\n \u201cThe main, and so far the only, \u2060revenue-generating event for FIFA is the World Cup,\u201d Infantino \u2060said. \u201cThe World Cup takes place one month every four years, so we generate money in one month. The 47 months until the next World Cup, we spend that money.\u201d<\/p>\n Infantino called North America \u201ca very special market,\u201d \u200cand he said he has been living in the United States for the past two to three years in order to better \u201cunderstand\u201d the market.<\/p>\n A record 48 teams, organised in \u200c12 \u200cgroups of four, are playing in this year\u2019s World Cup that will have games in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The tournament will consist of a record 104 matches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gianni Infantino responds to criticism for pricing of 2026 edition highlighting \u2018very special\u2019 US market as factor. Published On 17 Apr 202617 Apr 2026 FIFA President Gianni Infantino defended high \u200cticket prices for this year\u2019s World Cup in North America by saying \u2060that \u2060the event, which captivates the globe, is the organisation\u2019s only source of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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