Jalisco's spending on Guadalajara's four World Cup matches stands at 445.7 million pesos, assembled from the state's public contracts and read directly by UDG Noticias, the news service of the University of Guadalajara1. The largest single line is the FIFA Fan Festival operation at 300 million pesos, awarded to a subsidiary of the events promoter Ocesa and running from 8 June to 19 July with a teardown deadline of 7 August. Stadium-perimeter security and logistics account for 44.8 million, signage for 3.9 million. The remainder covers volunteer uniforms, two public concerts, two property rentals and staff parking.
An earlier tally of 377 million pesos exists from mid-June, and the gap between the two is not an overrun. The total grew because more contracts had been counted, which is what happens when a ledger is compiled by a reporter working through procurement filings as they are published rather than issued by the state that signed them. Anyone reading the two figures as a budget that slipped has the direction of travel exactly backwards: the spending did not rise, the visibility did.
That method is also why Jalisco is the only itemised number in this tournament's accounting. A closing report from a government arrives as a total with a press conference attached. A contracts tally arrives as a list, which lets a reader see that two thirds of the state's outlay went on a fan zone rather than on transport, policing or permanent infrastructure.
No comparable itemisation exists from the organiser. FIFA's own tournament figures reached the public through news agencies rather than a document anyone could audit, and no line-by-line account of what the governing body spent in Mexico has been published at all. Nobody in Guadalajara had to model this number, argue it or defend it, and nobody had to wait for consultants either.
