Before the opening match, yesterday between Qatar and Ecuador, FIFA sold 2.95 million tickets, announced, Sunday, November 20, 2022, FIFA, also revealing that the tournament should bring it a record sum of 7.2 billion euros ($ 7.5 billion) by the end of the year.
These 7.2 billion euros represent the revenues generated for four years by the governing body of world football, and exceed the initial estimate by one billion.
Figures, which, according to the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, are “fantastic” because they have been affected “despite the covid and various crises in the world”.
Qatar has already sold more tickets than Russia, which had sold 2.4 million during the 2018 World Cup.
