{"id":8500,"date":"2026-05-21T17:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=8500"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:02:36","slug":"new-york-city-residents-will-get-a-chance-to-purchase-50-world-cup-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=8500","title":{"rendered":"New York City residents will get a chance to purchase $50 World Cup tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"

By PHILIP MARCELO<\/strong><\/p>\n

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Some lucky New York City residents will soon get a chance to snag cheap seats to this summer\u2019s high-priced World Cup.<\/p>

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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.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo put that into perspective, that is five lattes in New York City,\u201d Mamdani quipped from a bar in Harlem\u2019s Little Senegal neighborhood alongside U.S. men\u2019s national team forward Timothy Weah.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

He said the tickets will be non-transferrable and that there will be a \u201cvariety of ways\u201d city officials will verify residency. They\u2019ll also only be handed out directly to the fans as they board the bus on game day.<\/p>

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\u201cWe are making sure that working people will not be priced out of the game that they helped to create,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>

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