Exclusive | World Cup superfan families whove dropped a staggering $20K on tickets and travel: No matter what, you have togo

For Mark, a 28-year-old senior vice president at a Manhattan bank, snagging a whopping $21,910 worth of tickets for the 2026 USA World Cup was a family affair.He told The Post that his superfan parents had no specified budget for this year’s tournament — even after dropping an even more eye-opening $35,506 for an all-inclusive Qatar World Cup package for their family in 2022.The Long Island native, who chose not to share his real name for fear of sounding like a “rich kid from the Upper West Side,” said he bought the majority of this year’s tickets for himself, his parents and his younger brother using his dad’s credit card, adding that he was charged with logistics due to being the best in the family at navigating the oft-complex virtual FIFA ticket system.Those eye-popping tournament expenditures aside, his parents, both of whom work as senior accountants, are typically “frugal people” who don’t indulge in fancy clothes or dinners to accommodate their love for travel and other novel experiences, he said.Case in point: Every four years since 2006, they have bought World Cup tickets for their immediate family.Mark has kept a few tickets from past games as memorabilia, such as a Category 3 ticket to a Colombia vs.

Ivory Coast game that cost $90 in 2014 for the World Cup hosted in Brazil.And they’re not the only superfans out there.Soccer nuts are shelling out on record prices for the series — co-hosted by Canada and Mexico, and the first in North America since 1994, kicking off Thursday, June 11, and running until July 19.On SeatGeek, ticket prices vary widely depending on the game, starting at $192 for Jordan vs.

Algeria in California on June 22 and ballooning to a starting point of $7,869 for the MetLife July 19 final.On FIFA’s website, ticket prices are sky-high, with most jumping off from $1,000 or more — though savvy soccer fans can still find some games for more reasonable prices, such as a June 13 match between Australia and Turkey ...