Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced 1,000 $50 tickets for the World Cup will be made available to New York City residents. About 150 tickets per game will be offered for seven of the eight matches at MetLife Stadium, with the July 19 final excluded from the $50 pricing due to very high demand and prices near $33,000. Ticket holders will receive free roundtrip bus transportation to the stadium. Tickets will be distributed through a lottery starting May 25. The city will take steps to prevent scalping by making tickets non-transferrable, verifying residency through multiple methods, and handing tickets directly to fans as they board the bus on game day. The goal is to keep working people from being priced out.
"Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Thursday that 1,000 tickets costing $50 will be made available to residents of the city of more than 8 million for the most watched sporting event in the world. About 150 tickets per game will be made available for seven of the eight matches played at the roughly 82,000-seat MetLife Stadium, located across the river from Manhattan in New Jersey. The lone exception is the high demand July 19 final, where some seats now cost nearly $33,000."
"The tickets will also include free roundtrip bus transportation to the stadium for the ticket holders, the mayor said. They will be distributed via a lottery starting May 25. To prevent scalping, Mamdani said the city would be taking steps to ensure the ones they distribute go to New York City residents and are not resold on the secondary market. He said the tickets will be non-transferrable and that there will be a "variety of ways" city officials will verify residency."
""We are making sure that working people will not be priced out of the game that they helped to create," Mamdani said. The Democrat, who took office in January, said the effort underscores how his administration is not simply focused on making everyday things like housing and groceries more affordable. "It extends to making it possible for every New Yorker to take part in the things that make us human," he said."
""To put that into perspective, that is five lattes in New York City," Mamdani quipped from a bar in Harlem's Little Senegal neighborhood alongside U.S. men's national team forward Timothy Weah. "We are making sure that working people will not be priced out of the game that they helped to create," Mamdani said. The tickets will be handed out directly to the fans as they board the bus on game day."
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