{"id":31169,"date":"2026-06-22T13:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/why-is-world-cup-2026-so-expensive-bbc-newscast\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:13:00","slug":"why-is-world-cup-2026-so-expensive-bbc-newscast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/why-is-world-cup-2026-so-expensive-bbc-newscast\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is World Cup 2026 so expensive? | BBC Newscast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Guf6-VPkx5U?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Newscast, Americast and Football Daily got together for three special episodes on what could be the most political World Cup ever.<\/p>\n<p>How much will Donald Trump make it about him? Will the US-Iran war affect the tournament? And why are tickets so expensive?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode we look at why tickets are so expensive, who\u2019s making money from them, and whether the hosts are actually ready.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Zurcher and Marianna Spring join from Americast, and 5 Live football commentary legend John Murray is on from Football Daily.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Trump celebrates the World Cup<br \/>\n01:09 Ticket prices<br \/>\n08:11 Will this World Cup feel different?<br \/>\n10:30 The $100 train<br \/>\n12:30 Football as a commodity<br \/>\n15:20 The \u00a32m ticket<br \/>\n18:45 The economic boost for the USA, Canada and Mexico<br \/>\n23:47 The global economy<br \/>\n26:24 The joys of the World Cup<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews #WorldCup #infantino<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Guf6-VPkx5U\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newscast, Americast and Football Daily got together for three special episodes on what could be the most political World Cup ever. How much will Donald Trump make it about him? Will the US-Iran war affect the tournament? And why are tickets so expensive? In this episode we look at why tickets are so expensive, who\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31171,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169\/revisions\/31171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}