Mamdani secures 1,000 tickets for New York residents that can be purchased at $50 each

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Thursday that the City of New York, successful concern with the NYNJ Host Committee, has secured 1,000 affordable tickets to the World Cup for New York residents that tin beryllium bought for $50 each.

At the clip of publishing, the cheapest Ticketmaster listing for a MetLife Stadium radical signifier crippled was $535 for the Norway-Senegal lucifer connected June 22.

The ticket-holders volition besides person escaped autobus proscription to and from the stadium and New York — the committee had precocious announced specified a travel would outgo $80, portion NJ Transit tickets were primitively $150 earlier backstage backing lowered them to conscionable nether $100.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani backed a connection to taxation luxury 2nd homes owned by non-residents, targeting ultra-wealthy spot owners. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"A World Cup is coming to our backyard, and we privation to guarantee working-class New Yorkers person the accidental to beryllium portion of it," Mamdani said astatine a quality league successful Harlem Thursday. "We sat down with the Host Committee to marque definite this tourney belongs to the radical who marque this metropolis what it is. Today, 1,000 New Yorkers are going to get into those stands for 50 dollars and a escaped autobus ride. I’m proud that New York City is starring the way."

"This programme exists due to the fact that the politician was determined to marque definite moving New Yorkers would beryllium successful the stands erstwhile the World Cup comes location to New York," said NYC World Cup czar Maya Handa. "A kid successful the Bronx, a information defender successful Queens, a edifice idiosyncratic successful Brooklyn oregon Staten Island — they are going to locomotion into the stadium this summertime due to the fact that their metropolis fought for them to beryllium there."

Transit officials are preparing for an unprecedented fig of riders during World Cup matches this summer. (Luke Hales/Getty Images)

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"Mayor Mamdani’s committedness to making the World Cup accessible to mundane New Yorkers ... is precisely what it looks similar erstwhile a metropolis governs for the people," added Council Member Yusef Salaam.

Tickets volition beryllium delivered to winners of a lottery strategy that runs from May 25 done May 29.

FIFA did not instantly respond to a petition for remark regarding Mamdani's announcement.

Mamdani has ripped the "absurd" World Cup prices successful the past.

"What we're seeing is that FIFA's attack to the summons process of the World Cup is some without precedent successful their ain medication of erstwhile World Cups and is besides an attack that volition terms retired truthful galore New Yorkers from really being capable to beryllium successful the stands," helium said past September.

Fireworks airy up the entity implicit Met Life Stadium successful East Rutherford, N.J., earlier the Club World Cup last shot lucifer betwixt Chelsea and PSG connected July 13, 2025. (Matt Slocum/AP)

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The tickets, which volition not beryllium allowed to beryllium resold, volition beryllium divided among the archetypal 7 matches astatine MetLife earlier it hosts the last connected July 19.

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