LONDON (Kashmir English): Football lovers are likely to spend big just to park their cars at next year’s FIFA World Cup tournament, with prices reaching as much as $175 per parking pass.
The prices on FIFA’s official website have astonished the ticket holders in the famously car-dependent United States, one of the tournament’s three hosts, along with Canada and Mexico.
A “general parking” pass for the July 14 semi-final in Dallas was listed at $175 on Tuesday, while the price for parking at a group-stage match was listed at $75.
Parking at a quarter-final match in Kansas City on July 11 would cost ticket holders $125 while the price for group-stage matches was $75.
FIFA, which used dynamic pricing for the first phase of ticket sales for the tournament, had group-stage tickets starting at $60.
FIFA World Cup venues
Only a handful of the 16 FIFA World Cup venues across Mexico, Canada and the United States had parking passes listed for sale online as of Tuesday.
Mexico City, which will host the first match of the FIFA World Cup 2026 tournament, and New York/New Jersey, which will host the final, were among the cities that did not have parking available yet.
The world governing body received over 1.5 million ticket applications from the game lovers within 24 hours of the presale draw launched in September for the World Cup.
