GREEDY Fifa bosses are secretly sneaking 20 per cent more World Cup seats into the priciest bracket.
It is another blow to fans facing ticket hikes and astronomical flight and hotel charges for next summer’s showpiece.
Seating plans in the US, Canada and Mexico reveal the number of Category One seats has jumped by a fifth, up to 62 per cent, since the World Cup at Qatar in 2022.
Seats in that top bracket for England’s opener against Croatia in Dallas will cost £523.
That would rise to a staggering £6,489 if our boys reach the final.
Soaring demand will increase prices further as at least ten million seats have been requested since Fifa’s ticket ballot opened on Thursday.
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With more than two million sold in earlier phases, that leaves only around five million available.
Fifa, headed by Gianni Infantino, will be quids in after grabbing a 30 per cent share of every transaction in the tout market.
Fans hit out at the tickets shift, with the cost of following England set to cost five times more than in Qatar.
Huddersfield supporter Dean Valler, 48, from Wallingford, Oxfordshire, said: “Fifa keep punching fans in the face.
“This is a huge change and means fans are being fleeced even more.”
Fifa were approached for comment.
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