Mamdani Scores $50 World Cup Tickets for 1,000 New Yorkers

A thousand lucky New Yorkers will win $50 tickets to the FIFA World Cup in June and July, giving them a way around sky-high prices that have stirred anger among soccer fans.

A lottery opening at 10 a.m. on May 25 will grant the tickets plus free roundtrip bus trips to MetLife Stadium, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday at a press conference in Harlem alongside the head of the NYNJ Host Committee, Alex Lasry.

“We know that ticket prices for this tournament have soared into the thousands of dollars,” Mamdani said. “We are making sure that working people will ...