As prices continue to soar, tickets to attend Lionel Messi’s probable Inter Miami debut have been posted online for $20,000 while the MLS team’s executives work to add 3,000 seats to their home stadium.
The cheapest resale price for Miami’s Leagues Cup match against Cruz Azul on July 21, which is expected to be Messi’s debut game, has increased 1,034 percent, according to Mail Online.
The price range for tickets on StubHub at the beginning of the week was $810 to $20,701.
To somewhat meet the demand for tickets to witness Messi play, Inter Miami will add 3,000 seats to its DRV PNK Stadium by August, raising the capacity to 22,000 spectators.
The Miami Herald reports that the average stated resale ticket prices for Inter Miami’s away matches have likewise increased by 1,000%, boosting the revenue of other MLS teams.
According to Google Trends via JeffBet.com, worldwide searches for “Inter Miami tickets” and “Inter Miami season tickets” increased by 13,057 percent and 1,215 percent, respectively, during the course of the previous five years.
Over 150,000 searches were made about Messi in June, which is a record for Inter Miami. Searches for “MLS” have increased by 322 percent over the past 30 days since the signing was announced, reaching a five-year high.
