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Tickets for the Qatar 2022 World Cup have been put on sale with prices for residents wanting to attend the games starting at 40 Qatari riyals ($11), the cheapest for locals since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.
Neither FIFA nor the local Qatar organising committee has announced how many fans will be allowed into stadiums for the first World Cup in an Arab country, which runs from November 21 until December 18.
FIFA opened a draw on Wednesday which offers individual match tickets starting at 250 riyals ($69) for international fans – about one-third less than at Russia 2018 – but a ticket for the December 18 final at Lusail Stadium costs 5,850 riyals ($1,607), up 46 percent from $1,100 for the 2018 final.
Earlier in the week, China canceled plans to sell tickets to the public for the Winter Olympics in Beijing, as the number of COVID-19 cases in the country reached its highest since March 2020. Organizers said last year there would be no international spectators at the Games — partly due to China’s weeks-long quarantine requirements — but they had promised to allow domestic audiences. Those plans were scrapped on Monday as China reported 223 new infections just three weeks before the Winter Olympics are set to open.
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