HARRY KANE could have an audience of 50,000 empty seats as England take on their first World Cup match next week.
The Three Lions will play New Zealand‘s All Whites at the 69,000-seater ground in Tampa, Florida on June 6.
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The Three Lions will face New Zealand in Tampa on June 6 Credit: Alamy
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ stadium will host the warm-up game Credit: Getty
Just 13,000 tickets have been sold for the warm-up game in the Raymond James Stadium – the home of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Only 1,500 official England Supporters Travel Club members are signed up as of today out of the 3,776 allocation.
And even with an estimated 400,000 ex-pats living in Florida, it seems as though they are still struggling to sell tickets.
The cheapest tickets cost £54 with the FA reportedly insisting the rate is decent for sport in the US.
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Tickets for the USMNT’s game against Senegal are available for as little as £29 and go all the way up to £311.
Meanwhile, their next warm-up against Germany has tickets available from £101 to £661.
Thomas Tuchel‘s second warm-up match will be against Costa Rica in Orlando, four days later.
And with Costa Ricans accounting for around 16 per cent of the US population, they have already sold 12,000 tickets to the 25,500-seater Inter&Co Stadium on June 10.
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A similar number of official England Supporters Travel Club members have secured tickets, but this is much less than for the actual World Cup matches.
For the Three Lions’ group games in Dallas, Boston and New Jersey, more than 3,000 official fans have secured tickets with an extra 1,000 travelling as ‘friends and family of the national team’.
Fifa has said that 5million of the 6million tickets available for the 104 World Cup matches across the US, Canada and Mexico have sold out.
Other than the Arsenal and Crystal Palace players, who are involved in two European finals, the rest of the squad are set to travel together on June 1 to their prep camp in Palm Beach Florida.
Then after two warm-up fixtures, the whole squad will travel to their permanent base in Kansas City.
England will kick off their World Cup campaign against Croatia on June 17 in Texas, before facing Ghana and Panama.
