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MetLife Stadium will big its first World Cup crippled adjacent Saturday, but it does not look for illustration galore fans astatine nan infinitesimal will beryllium taking nationalist proscription there.
The FIFA World Cup 2026 New York New Jersey Host Committee and NJ Transit primitively announced that round-trip train tickets to and from nan stadium will costs $150 — a normal summons from Penn Station to MetLife Stadium is $12.90. However, aft other backstage funding, tickets person since been lowered to $98.
NJ Transit is readying to carrier 40,000 group for each of MetLife Stadium's 8 games, but according to The Athletic, arsenic of Monday astatine 5 p.m. ET, only 17,739 full tickets person been purchased crossed nan entirety of nan eight-game slate.
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Transit officials are preparing for an unprecedented number of riders during World Cup matches this summer. (Luke Hales/Getty Images)
That is little than 6% of nan 320,000 tickets available.
As of 3 p.m. ET connected Tuesday, train schedules are not yet available, but fans tin acquisition tickets successful prime departure clip windows, ranging from 1 to 5 hours earlier kickoff.
Fans person been encouraged to bargain tickets successful advance, arsenic they will not beryllium disposable for acquisition connected crippled day.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill and FIFA exchanged blows astir nan summons prices, pinch Sherrill imploring FIFA to salary for fans to be nan games.
"Our management inherited an statement wherever FIFA is providing $0 for proscription to nan World Cup — zero. That leaves New Jersey Transit pinch a $48 cardinal measure to safely get 40,000 fans to and from each game..." Sherrill said in a video.
Commuters move done nan NJ Transit conception of Penn Station successful New York City connected May 20, 2025, aft NJ Transit resumed operations pursuing a tentative woody to extremity a three-day onslaught by train engineers. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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"I won't instrumentality New Jersey's commuters pinch that tab for years to travel — that's not fair. So here's nan bottommost line: FIFA should salary for nan rides, but if they don't, I'm not going to fto New Jersey commuters get taken for one."
FIFA said it was "quite surprised" astatine Sherrill's unprecedented "approach."
"FIFA World Cup will bring millions of fans to North America on pinch related economical impact," FIFA said. "Many fans will recreation to NYNJ to bask nan 8 matches scheduled. FIFA is not alert of immoderate different awesome arena antecedently held astatine NYNJ Stadium, including different awesome sports, world performance tours, etc., wherever organizers were required to salary for instrumentality transportation."
New Jersey Transit branding is displayed successful beforehand of MetLife Stadium successful East Rutherford, New Jersey, up of nan 2026 World Cup connected May 1, 2026. (Dustin Satloff/Getty Images)
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Many recreation restrictions person been placed connected crippled days arsenic well, including NJ Transit work into and retired of New York being suspended opening 4 hours earlier matches start, isolated from for World Cup attendees. There besides will beryllium nary parking astatine MetLife Stadium, and rideshare will besides beryllium unavailable connected stadium property. Instead, rideshare users will beryllium dropped disconnected adjacent nan racetrack adjacent to nan stadium.
The first lucifer features Brazil and Morocco, and MetLife Stadium is besides hosting nan title connected July 19.
