$50 World Cup tickets will be available for NYC residents through lottery
- On Thursday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced 1,000 FIFA World Cup tickets available to residents for $50 each through a lottery system for seven matches at MetLife Stadium.
- Mamdani negotiated the allocation after campaigning on making the tournament accessible to working-class residents, pressing FIFA president Gianni Infantino in March to address concerns about exorbitant prices.
- The lottery opens Monday, May 25, for six days, allowing residents ages 15 and older to enter once daily; winners receive two tickets and free round-trip bus transportation to the stadium.
- Tickets are non-transferable and require residency verification through documents like utility bills, ensuring equal representation for New York City residents across all five boroughs.
- Beyond the lottery, the administration secured $20 bus rides from Manhattan and additional NYC Ferry service; the mayor confirmed no taxpayer funds are used, though tickets exclude the July 19 final.
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"We want to ensure that workers are not financially excluded from the sport they helped create," said the New York mayor.
Need a World Cup ticket? Enter Mamdani’s lottery for a $50 seat
New Yorkers hoping to catch a FIFA World Cup match without paying sky-high prices may soon have a cheaper way into MetLife Stadium. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Thursday that the city, working with the NYNJ Host Committee, has secured 1,000 discounted World Cup tickets for NYC residents. The tickets will cost $50 each and include free round-trip bus transportation to the New Jersey stadium, where the region’s eight World Cup matches will be pl…
New York, United States.- Mayor Zohran Mamdani negotiated with FIFA a thousand-ticket concession for the World Cup, which will be drawn at a cost of $50 between residents of New York. How is FIFA relentless with its prices? New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani got a concession where FIFA will award him a thousand tickets for seven games at MetLife Stadium, which will cost only $50 (867 pesos). According to The Athletic of The New York Times, tickets wi…
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