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🗓️ 17 December 2025
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From the BBC World Service: FIFA has said it will release $60 seats for next year's World Cup, following complaints from fans over high prices. After all, average ticket prices are about seven times what World Cup tickets cost when the event was hosted in Qatar. Thing is, there's a catch. Then, French soccer player Kylian Mbappé has been awarded $70 million in compensation for unpaid wages in a court case against his former club, Paris-Saint Germain.
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| 0:31.5 | Cut price tickets for next year's soccer World Cup, but only for the lucky few. |
| 0:37.0 | Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. I'm Gideon Long. Good morning. Soccer's world governing body, FIFA, has said it will release some $60 seats for next year's World Cup, following complaints from fans over high prices. But there won't be many. The BBC's business |
| 0:55.8 | reporter Nick Marsh has more. Hi Nick. Hello. So first of all, just explain what FIFA has announced. |
| 1:01.9 | Right. So this is the new so-called supporter entry tier ticket that FIFA will be offering to |
| 1:10.3 | signed up fans of the member associations. |
| 1:13.7 | So the member associations at a World Cup, they get a set amount of tickets. |
| 1:17.9 | They're going to start at $60 for all games, all the way up until the final, which until |
| 1:24.1 | now, the cheapest ticket would have been $4,000 at the very minimum. |
| 1:29.2 | Now you can get a ticket for $60. |
| 1:31.0 | Now that sounds like great news for fans. |
| 1:33.5 | So now fans can get their hands on a ticket for $60. |
| 1:36.5 | But when you dig down a little bit deeper, it's not really that great. |
| 1:40.8 | Because we're only talking about 10% of the tickets that are released to member |
| 1:45.6 | associations. So for example, take England v Croatia, they're playing in Dallas, the English |
| 1:51.2 | Football Association get 4,000 tickets. So 400 of them will be available for $60. Now, 400 |
| 1:58.3 | tickets in a stadium with a capacity of 90-odd thousand isn't really much. So the prices of the vast majority of tickets for the60. Now, 400 tickets in a stadium with a capacity of 90-odd thousand isn't really much. |
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