World Cup Tickets - FIFA Collect - Guaranteed Tickets

[polky]

For those wanting guaranteed tickets now and who were not aware, FIFA had a Right to Buy scheme (RTB) via FIFA Collect, whereby fans could pay to guarantee a ticket for certain matchdays.

Fans who paid for these RTB, recently paid for the conversion to Right to Tickets (RTT), so effectively paying the full ticket price for the seating category of their choice, CAT 1 being the highest offering.

These RTT are available to buy now on the FIFA Collect Marketplace.  This is a guarantee of a ticket and once purchased, there is no additional cost (since the ticket price is already paid for during conversion from RTB to RTT) and FIFA will convert these RTT into actual tickets in May/Jun next year.

Whilst the actual seat choice can only be made when FIFA release these in May/Jun next year, the CAT of seat is guaranteed.

You can either chose to pay the asking price set by the seller, or make a bid which they can chose to accept or not.

For example CAT 1 tickets for Haiti v Scotland in Matchday 5 in Boston range from $675 - $2,500 per ticket.  No doubt these will increase in price as the event gets closer.

Take a look here for those on sale now.. 

https://collect.fifa.com/marketplace

Full disclosure - i took a punt on tickets before the draw and ended up with 2 tickets for HAI v SCO, so selling mine via this official FIFA channel. 

[GaryWood34]

52 minutes ago, polky said:

For those wanting guaranteed tickets now and who were not aware, FIFA had a Right to Buy scheme (RTB) via FIFA Collect, whereby fans could pay to guarantee a ticket for certain matchdays.

Fans who paid for these RTB, recently paid for the conversion to Right to Tickets (RTT), so effectively paying the full ticket price for the seating category of their choice, CAT 1 being the highest offering.

These RTT are available to buy now on the FIFA Collect Marketplace.  This is a guarantee of a ticket and once purchased, there is no additional cost (since the ticket price is already paid for during conversion from RTB to RTT) and FIFA will convert these RTT into actual tickets in May/Jun next year.

Whilst the actual seat choice can only be made when FIFA release these in May/Jun next year, the CAT of seat is guaranteed.

You can either chose to pay the asking price set by the seller, or make a bid which they can chose to accept or not.

For example CAT 1 tickets for Haiti v Scotland in Matchday 5 in Boston range from $675 - $2,500 per ticket.  No doubt these will increase in price as the event gets closer.

Take a look here for those on sale now.. 

https://collect.fifa.com/marketplace

Full disclosure - i took a punt on tickets before the draw and ended up with 2 tickets for HAI v SCO, so selling mine via this official FIFA channel. 

Really interesting post and not something I’d not seen before. Absolutely mental again from FIFA when you access the site. Blows my mind the ways they’ll find money. This will have people even more fuming. 
 

I think SCO v HAI will come down from $675 personally 2/3 days before the match. 
 

Buying “third party” right now is madness surely unless it’s face value. 
 

For Brazil I can understand it as that will sell out. 

Edited December 9, 2025 by GaryWood34

[polky]

18 minutes ago, GaryWood34 said:

Really interesting post and not something I’d not seen before. Absolutely mental again from FIFA when you access the site. Blows my mind the ways they’ll find money. This will have people even more fuming. 
 

I think SCO v HAI will come down from $675 personally 2/3 days before the match. 
 

Buying “third party” right now is madness surely unless it’s face value. 
 

For Brazil I can understand it as that will sell out. 

Hi Gary, Yes - i was kind of hoping for Brazil lol

[allan84]

Can Fifa sink any lower?

 

[DoonTheSlope]

So FIFA will contact you in May/June and ask if you want to swap this esticker thing for a ticket to the game? Surely not. Is this genuine?

There’s options there costing less than what my official ticket cost in Munich 

[polky]

12 minutes ago, DoonTheSlope said:

So FIFA will contact you in May/June and ask if you want to swap this esticker thing for a ticket to the game? Surely not. Is this genuine?

There’s options there costing less than what my official ticket cost in Munich 

It is 100% genuine and yes - that is exactly what happens.  Of course everyone will take up the option of the ticket.  I have 2 for sale.  FIFA did the same thing for the FIFA World Club Cup earlier this year.

Some people like me took a punt on getting a big game, which i would have gone to (and may still, would love to go to a World Cup game), others got them with a view to making a few quid (or $000's by the look at some of those resale prices!).

After paying $319 for the initial RTB (different prices were paid at different times) and then the $420 CAT1 ticket, then after FIFA commission (15%) and banking fees then i would need to sell for about $875 to break even, which is what i've listed for sale at on there.  That works out at approx. £750 for a CAT1 (best seats - see attached) ticket.  

Expensive, yes.  But what's cheap these days and it does guarantee a ticket to watch Scotland in the World Cup !

[NSIGN]

20 minutes ago, polky said:

It is 100% genuine and yes - that is exactly what happens.  Of course everyone will take up the option of the ticket.  I have 2 for sale.  FIFA did the same thing for the FIFA World Club Cup earlier this year.

Some people like me took a punt on getting a big game, which i would have gone to (and may still, would love to go to a World Cup game), others got them with a view to making a few quid (or $000's by the look at some of those resale prices!).

After paying $319 for the initial RTB (different prices were paid at different times) and then the $420 CAT1 ticket, then after FIFA commission (15%) and banking fees then i would need to sell for about $875 to break even, which is what i've listed for sale at on there.  That works out at approx. £750 for a CAT1 (best seats - see attached) ticket.  

Expensive, yes.  But what's cheap these days and it does guarantee a ticket to watch Scotland in the World Cup !

Can you buy them without a crypto wallet? I can see how. 

[bdgsct]

17 minutes ago, polky said:

It is 100% genuine and yes - that is exactly what happens.  Of course everyone will take up the option of the ticket.  I have 2 for sale.  FIFA did the same thing for the FIFA World Club Cup earlier this year.

Some people like me took a punt on getting a big game, which i would have gone to (and may still, would love to go to a World Cup game), others got them with a view to making a few quid (or $000's by the look at some of those resale prices!).

After paying $319 for the initial RTB (different prices were paid at different times) and then the $420 CAT1 ticket, then after FIFA commission (15%) and banking fees then i would need to sell for about $875 to break even, which is what i've listed for sale at on there.  That works out at approx. £750 for a CAT1 (best seats - see attached) ticket.  

Expensive, yes.  But what's cheap these days and it does guarantee a ticket to watch Scotland in the World Cup !

Why would anyone pay $750 for a low demand game like this? When all tickets are released the prices will go down to a few hundred dollars and most of these will be Cat1 as these are the biggest proportion of the stadium. I'm not sure I will take up a Cat1 ticket from SSC at $400+ nevermind this nonsense.

[polky]

8 minutes ago, NSIGN said:

Can you buy them without a crypto wallet? I can see how. 

Once you have set up a FIFA account, i think you can then pay into the FIFA wallet using a card payment

[Andy of Lochcarron]

10 minutes ago, bdgsct said:

Why would anyone pay $750 for a low demand game like this? When all tickets are released the prices will go down to a few hundred dollars and most of these will be Cat1 as these are the biggest proportion of the stadium. I'm not sure I will take up a Cat1 ticket from SSC at $400+ nevermind this nonsense.

Totally agree, thats ma feelings- be like Club World Cup no doubt where tickets went down on some games to 20/30 dollars in couple days before games, that were  less ‘popular’ games.

 

To be honest a lot of people who say they went for a punt for games with initial sales weren’t buying them as fans, just hoping they could make money ,end of

 

[Dave78]

9 minutes ago, Andy of Lochcarron said:

 

 

To be honest a lot of people who say they went for a punt for games with initial sales weren’t buying them as fans, just hoping they could make money ,end of

 

That's exactly what's going on here IMO.

I think Polky is trying to recoup losses. Best time to do that is now.

"Sell the hype, buy the dip"

[bdgsct]

I'll criticise FIFA for a helluva lot (justifiably) but I do think by charging  fortune at face value and then 15% to both the seller and buyer at resale they will eliminate most of the tout market. The cost though is to the SSC members and other associations fans who need to make plans early and are left paying the daft face value prices. Not many SSC tickets make it onto the black market, they could have easily charged less for these in a similar way to the Euros fans first and still achieved the same aim, just greed really.

[DoonTheSlope]

17 hours ago, NSIGN said:

Can you buy them without a crypto wallet? I can see how. 

Mikey Forrester, Russian sailors, crypto wallets!

What the fuck are you boys on?

[DoonTheSlope]

17 hours ago, Dave78 said:

That's exactly what's going on here IMO.

I think Polky is trying to recoup losses. Best time to do that is now.

"Sell the hype, buy the dip"

And who can blame them? It’s a supply and demand world we live in. If someone is willing to pay the price then there’s nae harm done

[Andy of Lochcarron]

2 minutes ago, DoonTheSlope said:

And who can blame them? It’s a supply and demand world we live in. If someone is willing to pay the price then there’s nae harm done

There is , people just buying tickets to then rip fans off

[DoonTheSlope]

5 hours ago, Andy of Lochcarron said:

There is , people just buying tickets to then rip fans off

If people are happy to be ripped off by paying the inflated prices then there’s nae harm

[Andy of Lochcarron]

7 minutes ago, DoonTheSlope said:

If people are happy to be ripped off by paying the inflated prices then there’s nae harm

Dear me

[Saul Tyer]

How do you sell a resale ticket if you don't have the tickets until just before the game?

[RDFH64]

On 12/9/2025 at 2:17 PM, allan84 said:

Can Fifa sink any lower?

 

I’m 100% sure they’ll find a way to, probably got numerous working groups on it 24/7 🤬