Sky-high World Cup ticket prices spark investigation by NY and NJ attorneys general

Source: CNN

On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James and New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport jointly announced that they’re subpoenaing documents from tournament organizer FIFA about its pricing practices for matches at New Jersey’s MetLife stadium.

At issue are prices and seating, with the pair saying that “fans may have been misled about the locations of the seats they were purchasing, and FIFA’s public statements and ticket releases may have contributed to soaring prices.”

They will investigate FIFA’s ticketing process and seat maps at MetLife (renamed New York New Jersey Stadium during the tournament) which they say were changed after fans bought tickets. Initially, the stadium was divided into four zones (Categories 1 through 4), with the lower-numbered zones in better areas.

But after ticket sales began, FIFA created “new zones” and added a front section in each category. Fans complained that buyers of tickets for seats in the new zones “were excluded from those seats and instead assigned less-desirable seats, including seats far from the field or behind the goals.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/business/world-cup-tickets-new-york-new-jersey-subpoena