TICKETS meant for England fans have reappeared on a Fifa-backed resale site — for 94 times face value.
The £44 ($60) Category 4 seats were set aside for three group games involving Thomas Tuchel’s side.
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Tickets meant for England fans have reappeared on a Fifa-backed resale site for 94 times face value Credit: Getty
The £44 Category 4 seats were set aside for three group games involving Thomas Tuchel’s side Credit: Alamy
Around 200 are on an official Fifa website for up to £4,251 each.
A ticket for England’s opener against Croatia in Texas’s AT&T Stadium on June 17 which once cost £44 is up for £1,672.
One for the June 27 Panama clash in New Jersey is being touted for £1,187.
A £4,251 ticket is for the June 23 match in Boston against Ghana.
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The FA say none of its 500 Supporters Travel Club members allocated £44 seats were among those selling for profit.
Instead the tickets are believed to have been from tiny blocks of affordable seats sold in Fifa’s public ballot.
Steve Hartshorne, 70, of Walsall, bought £44 tickets to eight possible Three Lions World Cup games.
He said: “The FA must investigate and ensure no England fans are reselling tickets. Any who are should be kicked out of the travel club.
“Selling on a $44 ticket for $2,000 is blatant profiteering and plain wrong.
A ticket for England’s opener against Croatia in Texas’s AT&T Stadium on June 17 which once cost £44 is up for £1,672 Credit: Getty
An FA travel club member says it’s ‘very sad’ some fans could have bought tickets with ‘no intention of going’ Credit: Getty
“I don’t know any supporters who are reselling their tickets, and I’d never resell mine.”
Another FA travel club member, from Sheffield, who has been to tournaments since France ’98, said: “It’s very sad some fans could have bought tickets with no intention of going.
“But the high cost of flights and hotels has put people off and money talks. It’s an own goal by Fifa for allowing tickets to be resold at ridiculous prices.”
The Football Supporters’ Association said: “Thousands of pounds for any football match is beyond greedy.”
Fifa did not respond.
