Russia 2018 World Cup Hospitality Packages Top Out At $3M For High-Rollers

Match Hospitality has "circulated details of luxury packages for attending the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, with the highest prices for advertised products leaving little change" from $3M, according to David Owen of INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL. While the cheapest ordinary tickets for Russian fans, as announced last week, will be fixed at 1,280 roubles ($20), those "looking to be pampered in the tournament’s executive boxes and other premium locations will pay dearly for the privilege." Match's price list "for hospitality products" starts at $850. At the "other end of the hospitality scale" comes a place in the "Tsarsky Lounge," which, for the Luzhniki stadium, is priced at $49,900. That big ticket $3M item -- actually it is $2,788,050, "but who's quibbling" -- is for one of 20 available "Bolshaya Troika" packages, offering "a private suite for all 19 matches in the two Moscow venues and at St Petersburg" (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 7/14).