Stuart Dykes

Director of European and Institutional Affairs at Football Supporters Europe (FSE). Season-ticket holder at 100% member-run club FC Schalke 04.

[Football Supporters Europe @FansEurope]

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[Stuart Dykes @stuartdykes]

With its exploitative pricing policy, the World Cup has shown how important it is for lawmakers to protect fans from rampant profiteering. We need an EU-wide ban on dynamic pricing in the live event sector.

[Football Supporters Europe @FansEurope]

🎟️📈 With Euroconsumers & Live DMA, we call on EU legislators to ban dynamic ticket pricing in live events.

📢 The @EU_Commission's Digital Fairness Act is under review soon - we must ensure fair & transparent access to culture & sport for all.

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[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

[Margaret Fleming @mgfleming12]

The US opener against Paraguay has been one of the most expensive World Cup matches, and on the day of the game, those prices aren't falling. On resale sites, they're actually going up. https://t.co/ik7lQgdMYd

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Empty seats at a home game for a host nation.

Fair play FIFA. Everyone said it was impossible to ruin the World Cup, but you've managed it. Respect.

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

“Until today, we have sold over six million tickets,” FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Wednesday. “The demand has been unprecedented, not by a little bit, but by a factor of 10 or more.”

Well, if that was the case, nobody told Guadalajara.

There were large sections of empty seats at the Akron Stadium as South Korea fought back from behind to beat Czech Republic in the second game of the World Cup.

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[Stuart Dykes @stuartdykes]

You couldn’t make it up. Oh wait, they did..

[FIFA Media @fifamedia]

Official attendance figures reflect the number of tickets scanned and spectators present within the stadium footprint, rather than visual assessments of seating occupancy at any given moment during the match. FIFA works closely with stadium authorities and ticketing teams to ensure all published figures are based on verified operational data.

Please note that, during last night’s match in Guadalajara, several ticketed fans could be seen standing in concourses rather than staying in their assigned seats throughout the match.

[Football Supporters Europe @FansEurope]

"Please note that, during last night’s match in Guadalajara, several ticketed fans could be seen dressed as empty seats..."

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

War of attrition between fans and FIFA about who blinks first

FIFA seems committed to keeping prices on the primary market high until the very end because
1) it's only 1,000 tickets
2) the optics would be bad
3) they're selling those tickets directly into the secondary market

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

We were told that every game would be sold out. Each empty seat is a small defeat for Fifa, proof of failed pricing model or failed sales process.

Column.

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[Rory Smith @RorySmith]

On the ticket prices: increasingly I wonder if one of FIFA's mistakes is believing the "104 Super Bowls" logic a bit too much.

I get they have to say that in public. Infantino can't admit that there are some less appealing games. But they could have tacitly priced that in.

[Football Supporters Europe @FansEurope]

⌛🏆 With just one day to go, serious concerns remain about whether @FIFA’s promise of a safe, welcoming, & inclusive @FIFAWorldCup will become a reality.

🔗 Full statement from FSE & our @Sport_Rights partners: https://t.co/lj9ADADzMJ

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

I received an interesting update to my post about FIFA dumping inventory onto 3rd-party resale platforms from an expert industry insider:

"One thing you didn't notice/mention in your Seatgeek tweet, is those seats are marked as INSTANT DELIVERY. Not just "In-Hand Now". [...] These listings from FIFA show up on Seatgeek as "Instant Delivery" meaning, the tickets are instantly deposited into the buyer's FIFA account directly. No transfer required.

So when you click on "Show Instant Delivery Only" on Seatgeek on the various matches, it will instantly show you all the listings that are from FIFA directly.

They have been listing Cat 1 for M4, the high row 200-levels, on Seatgeek for several weeks now at $1,300ish (face value $2,735). Also instant delivery. And if you zoom into those sections on FIFA marketplace, none of those were ever posted there. Because they were never sold."

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

This is the wildest World Cup story yet. If someone in Toronto sells a ticket above face value they get fined $25,000 yet the city of Toronto bought 3,500 World Cup tickets early and then sold them to taxpayers at a markup as a “revenue generation strategy.” What the hell man.

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

A day in the life of a football fan at the 2026 World Cup.

You wake up. You are ripped off. It begins.
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[Football Supporters Europe @FansEurope]

🗣 FSE's @RonanEvain on water at the @FIFAWorldCup: “In Europe, we see people collapsing in the stands from heatstroke more & more often... the more you complicate the access to water, the more the risk of people getting serious heatstroke & dehydration."
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[Kieran Maguire @KieranMaguire]

With less than a week to go before the tournament starts tickets available for the vast majority of blocks for England’s first World Cup match against Croatia on FIFA’s resale website.

FIFA’s commission is 30% on each ticket, so,it between buyer and seller.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

When Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens kidnapped and murdered Sarah Everard, Nigel Farage released a five-minute video urging people not to attack men or the police.

Today, in response to the murder of Henry Nowak, he called for "pure cold rage."

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

Yesterday available FIFA inventory suddenly dropped from 74k to 30k tickets.

It's the post-Covid US ticketing model:
1) start with high prices
2) slowly release inventory
3) occasionally remove supply
4) steer seats to hospitality
5) only cut prices if absolutely necessary

[Football Supporters Europe @FansEurope]

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