Letitia James and Jennifer Davenport, the attorneys general of New York and New Jersey, issued subpoenas to FIFA on Thursday 28 May, compelling it to hand over internal ticket-pricing and seat-category documents for eight matches at MetLife Stadium, including the final on Sunday 19 July 1. A subpoena is a legal order to produce records, and these are the first compulsory US instruments aimed at FIFA over its World Cup pricing. The allegation is precise: FIFA created premium "Front Category" seat tiers after sales had closed, and variable pricing lifted prices by roughly 25% across more than 90 matches between October 2025 and April 2026.
The AGs are probing the sequence, not dynamic pricing as a concept. A buyer who paid for a Category 1 seat and was then reshuffled behind a goal has a consumer claim that turns on what the seller promised at the moment of purchase, not on whether a market was rigged. That is a narrower and in some ways harder test for FIFA than any antitrust case, because it asks what one buyer was told rather than whether competition was harmed, and a state attorney general can pursue it without proving monopoly power.
The political climate for the action was primed weeks earlier, when Gianni Infantino cited 500 million ticket requests to defend the pricing while sidestepping the question of how far the ceiling had risen . The subpoenas convert that grievance into a documentary demand. FIFA has not commented on the two states' probe.
