For a diehard soccer fan, proudly owning a literal piece of the motion from an iconic sport is the final word memento. FIFA’s latest merchandise lets World Cup devotees do exactly that—nevertheless it comes with an eyebrow-raising price ticket.
Items of the pitch from the upcoming World Cup remaining are on the market, beginning at $450. The small sections of grass might be encased in acrylic resin and inscribed with particulars of the sport, together with the placement, date, collaborating groups, and remaining scores. With the match scheduled for this Sunday, July 19, at New York New Jersey Stadium and the ultimate two groups but to be decided, the keepsakes are presently solely obtainable for pre-order, delivery to consumers after the World Cup is over.
The worth of the pitch
The “Piece of the Closing Pitch” assortment is available in 4 distinct tiers, every greater in scale (and dearer) than the final. There’s the basic Foundation Edition for $450, which features a 2.5-inch acrylic dice containing a bit of the turf, to be extracted after the ultimate match is performed. It additionally comes with a USB containing an “authenticity movie” and is packaged in a hinged field. The Basis Version was initially for sale on FIFA’s online store, nevertheless it’s currently only available via the collectible manufacturer KeepStub.
At double the worth, the Stadium Edition goes for $900 and throws in a steel memento ticket etched in gold, a signed certificates of authenticity, and a a lot bigger double-doored field (although the acrylic centerpiece continues to be simply 2.5 inches huge). The Legacy Edition hikes its price even higher to $1,200, including a miniature gold reproduction of the ball for use within the World Cup remaining and a field “adorned with storytelling,” that means blurbs in regards to the 2026 World Cup are written on the within. Once more, the precise piece of the pitch doesn’t improve in scale.
Lastly, there’s the Hero Edition, going for a whopping $3,000. It provides a crystal-cut glass World Cup Trophy and a bigger wood field, together with—lastly—a much bigger chunk of the pitch. On this version, the dice is three inches huge as a substitute of two.5.
Every version has a restricted provide, with solely a thematic 2,026 models of every up on the market. If each version bought out, they’d add as much as greater than $11.2 million in income.
World Cup followers dealing with ever increased costs
The collectibles’ excessive costs rapidly caught flak on social media. “As if paying 6k for a ticket hadn’t been sufficient,” one commenter wrote in response to the merchandise.
Certainly, the merch costs are solely the newest instance of uncharacteristically excessive costs for the 2026 World Cup. This yr’s event was the primary to function dynamic ticket pricing: Prime-tier tickets to the ultimate match, initially priced at $6,730 in September of 2025 (an already a lot increased determine than the costliest tickets at Qatar’s 2022 World Cup), jumped in price to $10,990 by April. In Might, FIFA launched even pricier tickets to sit down within the entrance row, on sale for $32,970 a pop.
The general public outrage over the World Cup’s pricing was sufficient to garner probes by the attorneys basic of New York, New Jersey, California, and Texas.
“New Yorkers have been ready years for the World Cup to come back to their yard, they usually deserve a good shot at reasonably priced tickets,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James. “Nobody ought to be manipulated into paying sky-high costs for seats, and followers ought to be capable to belief that the tickets they buy would be the ones they obtain.”
