text: why does fifa allow corporate firms to hike the prices on world cup tickets? more tickets for genuine fans!?   great question. ticket touting is illegal and yet these firms are asking many. times the face value of a ticket. an average price of an england ticket for example for the first round games are £600 for group c seats , face value £50 c.a.  fifa and the various associations of each country do little to stop this and let the real fans from following their teams. please beware, if you do buy tickets off of these sites as i was sent tickets for a different game to the ones we had ordered at euro 2004. i was not allowed to resell these tickets at the game which i would have let go at cost price as i have no desire to make money off of fellow football fans . we also lose lots of seats to corporate firms( sorry deviated from original question) fifa must stop this and find better ways to distribute tickets to the real fans who pay to watch there clubs and international teams .