How much does a goal cost for a fan? To the Spaniards, the French and the Germans more than the Italians. But it is the British who pay the highest price. Calculating the “cost of football” for fans globally is the report “The football price index”, prepared by BudgetAir. Thus we discover that to attend a goal at the stadium in the UK costs an average of € 70.11, while in Italy just over half, 38.72 euros.
To see the network swell, the Spaniards spend 49.38 euros, the French 40.86 and the Germans 39.13 euros. Costs are much lower in the Netherlands (28.15 euros), Croatia (18.73 euros) and Denmark (7.23 euros), but the real difference is recorded when leaving Europe.
Except for the greedy Americans, who spend 45.13 euros per goal, overseas the feats of the Latin American champions turn out to be really cheap: the Brazilian torcida in league matches spends 4.17 euros for each goal, while in Colombia fans pay around 3.95 euros and in Uruguay 2.79 euros. The surprise, in that geographical area, is Maradona’s Argentina, where football fans have to shell out 34.03 euros for a mark in the Primera Divisiòn.
To close the rankings is the Qatar Stars Legue with € 0.84 per goal. Moreover, the country where the next men’s World Cup will be played, for which, Fifa announced this week, more than 1.2 million tickets have already been sold worldwide in the first 24 hours of the initial presale period alone. .
The highest demand came from fans from Qatar, a country followed in interest by Argentina, Mexico, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, England, India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and France. For the final alone, on 18 December 2022 at the Lusail Stadium, more than 140,000 tickets were requested and over 80,000 for the opening match.