Tickets on secondary markets were down by more than 50% from their peak price
Not even the U.S. men’s national team playing a home World Cup match is making the Bay Area immune to FIFA’s last-minute price drops across the knockout round.
The Americans will take on Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday at Levi’s Stadium, which is being called San Francisco Bay Area Stadium for the tournament because of FIFA’s branding restrictions. And all across the resale marketplaces, the price to get into the building for the round of 32 match is falling dramatically.
The U.S. officially clinched Group D and the round of 32 match at Levi’s Stadium on the earliest possible day it could: June 19, the second of three matchdays during the group stage. On that day, ticket prices surged to astronomical levels, with the cheapest tickets available ending up north of $3,000, according to TicketData, a website that publicly tracks prices on resale marketplaces like SeatGeek, StubHub and Vivid Seats. Prices stayed above $3,000 all throughout the June 19-21 weekend, which would have been on par with prices Bay Area residents saw for the Super Bowl at Levi’s Stadium earlier this year.
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