MetLife Stadium

FIFA's first use of Dynamic pricing in World Cup history set MetLife's cheapest final ticket at $4,185 and its most expensive at $8,680, yet one listing on FIFA's own resale marketplace reached $230,000, with FIFA collecting a 30% commission on every resale .

New York and New Jersey's attorneys general subpoenaed FIFA on 28 May for pricing documents covering all eight MetLife matches, alleging premium seat tiers were added after sales closed, driving roughly 25% price rises across more than 90 fixtures tournament-wide .

MetLife's World Cup pitch relied on borrowed turf: around 600 rolls of Tahoma 31 bermudagrass were trucked in from North Carolina after the venue's own New Jersey supplier failed over winter, with laying beginning on 6 May on a raised rig two feet above the stadium floor .

The gamble held: the pitch reached its target playable date of 13 June, when Brazil and Morocco drew 1-1 before 80,663 fans . The same surface went on to stage seven more matches, including the 19 July final.

MetLife Stadium was built for car access, but its eight World Cup matches, including the final, carried no general parking and no tailgating: only around 5,000 spaces at the adjacent American Dream mall, at $225 each. Roughly 80,000 fans per match instead relied on a single rail spur through Secaucus Junction .

A 21 July report from NJ Transit and its partner agencies tallied more than 370,000 fans across the eight matches and set a working ceiling of 20,000 passengers per two-hour window for future events, a safety limit rather than a promise of new capacity .