World Cup final tickets listed for up to £1.7m on Fifa’s resale site

Tickets for the World Cup final at MetLife Stadium are priced at over £1.7m (Getty)

Fifa’s resale site has some tickets for the World Cup final selling at over £1.7m.

Four seats for the competition’s finale at MetLife Stadium on 19 July have been priced at just shy of $2.3m (£1.71m), located behind a goal in the lower deck in block 124.

Fifa does not control the asking prices on its official resale marketplace but takes a 15 percent purchase fee from the buyer of each ticket, as well as a 15 percent cut from the seller.

“Fifa has established a ticket sales and secondary market model that reflects standard ticket market practices for major sporting and entertainment events across the host countries," the governing body said in a statement.

“The applicable resale facilitation fees are aligned with industry standards across North American sports and entertainment sectors.

“Fifa’s variable pricing ticketing approach aligns with industry trends across various sports and entertainment sectors, where price adaptations are made to optimize sales and attendance and ensure a fair market value for events.”

Elsewhere, an aisle seat of the lower deck was listed at $207,000 (£153,600) while a category two seat in the last row of the uppermost third deck was listed at $138,000 (£102,400). A few feet away, another seat had an asking price of $23,000 (£17,000).

The lowest-priced tickets for the final that are listed on the marketplace came in at just under $11,000 (£8,200) for four seats just four rows from the top of the upper deck behind a goal.

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has defended the steep ticket prices for the World Cup, asserting that the global spectacle serves as the organisation's sole source of income every four years and will be reinvested among its members to develop the sport.