Tickets to see ‘s potential debut for Inter Miami have been listed online for an eye-watering $20,000 as prices continue to skyrocket, while the club’s chiefs try 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, predicted to be Messi’s first match, has soared 1,034 percent.
At the start of the week, tickets on StubHub stretched from $810 to $20,701.
With that being said, single-game tickets for The Herons’ league matches at home after July 1 are not yet listed for sale – a strategy that the club’s executives took prior to the player, himself, announced his move to South .
Inter Miami will also add 3,000 seats to its DRV PNK Stadium by August to somewhat cope with the demands to see Messi in action, increasing the capacity to 22,000.
Resale ticket prices to see Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami debut range from $810-$20k on StubHub
Inter Miami will also add 3k seats to DRV PNK Stadium by August, increasing capacity to 22k
The average listed resale ticket prices for Inter Miami’s away games have also surged by 1,000 percent, according to , providing a profit boost for other MLS teams.
Charlotte FC sold 10,000 tickets for its home game against Miami in no more than three hours after Messi revealed his move to the US.
Atlanta United, which ranks first in average attendance (46,097) in the league, is providing full venue upper-level seats for its 71,000-capacity Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Searches for ‘Inter Miami tickets’ and ‘Inter Miami season tickets’ spiked by 13,057 percent and 1,215 percent worldwide compared to average levels over the last five years, according to Google Trends via .
Messi’s signing drew over 150,000 searches for Inter Miami in June, an all-time high in the club’s history.
Searches for ‘MLS’ are now at a five-year high, soaring by 322 percent compared to the last 30 days as .
Messi’s move to Paris Saint-Germain in 2021 had been met with similar over-the-top fandom that provided a significant financial boost for the Ligue 1 champions.
PSG made a $750million profit from jersey sales and increased revenue with Messi on its books, according to Marca.
Messi is currently on international duty with Argentina for a friendly against Australia in China
Inter Miami has yet to release any sort of confirmation of Messi’s arrival, as the 35-year-old is still technically under contract with PSG until July 1, though he is still very much expected to complete his move to the US in the next few weeks.
In the meantime, the Argentine’s received a superstar’s welcome in China ahead of his national team’s friendly match against Australia.
Hundreds of jubilant fans greeted Messi as he arrived on Saturday in Beijing, though .
Once cleared to enter the country, however, fans waited outside the team’s hotel, not far from the banks of the Liangma River, popular with Beijingers for strolls. This is Messi’s seventh trip to China, the last being in 2017, according to local media.
World champions Argentina will play a friendly against Australia on June 15 at Beijing’s newly renovated 68,000-capacity Workers’ Stadium.
