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Between 40,000 and 80,000 nationals will go to Qatar to support the Mexican National Team.
Mexico has 91,173 confirmed tickets for sale for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
In the last World Cup, in Russia 2018, there were 44 thousand Mexicans.
The Soccer World Cup touches the nerves of almost everyone, that is why many dream of witnessing a match of their national team in this great sporting event. Given this and with the proximity of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, many Mexicans have already begun to make accounts to be able to travel to the country where the event will take place next November, that is why they wonder how much it costs to travel to encourage Mexico in the World Cup of Qatar 2022?.
Football lovers are present in any nation, since men and women are attracted to this sport, so soccer is one of the most important.
When we talk about football it is important to know that this sport is governed worldwide, the International Federation of Football Associationbetter known as FIFA, which is the body in charge of organizing the event like the World Cup.
The World Cup is one of the most important sporting events and, in terms of income, generates millions of dollars for FIFA and for all those responsible and involved. In that sense, according to FIFA, the world cup final It takes place every four years to culminate a month-long tournament between 32 nations, where the 2018 tournament between France and Croatia reached an average television audience of 517 million live viewers.
By 2022, and according to FIFA, more than a million foreign fans will attend what will be the first World Cup in the Middle East. that they will have to invest a good sum of money in lodging, meals, sporting events and air tickets.
This will cost a Mexican to go to the 2022 Qatar World Cup
Mexican fans are very passionate about this sport that moves millions around the world, which is why, according to figures from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), It is expected that between 40,000 and 80,000 of the foreigners who attend Qatar will be Mexicans.
According to the Qatari ambassador to Mexico, Mohammed Al Kuwari, Mexico occupies the fifth position of the highest number of packages sold, behind only the host country, from the United States, Saudi Arabia and England.
But for many, attending this event may seem like a luxury due to the exorbitant costs and after a strong economic crisis that is being experienced throughout the world.
Given this, according to estimates and analysis by specialists, a Mexican who wants to travel to support the ‘Tri’ would have to pay close to a million Mexican pesos, which makes it one of the most expensive World Cups in history for fans, above the past that was in Russia 2018, which was attended by 44,000 Mexicans.
This analysis, the experts carried out when budgeting the prices of the flights that travelers must acquire, where the price of a recommended round flight is 58 thousand 295 Mexican pesos, according to the website Skyscanner.
Meanwhile, in the estimates of the cheapest flight that includes the entire period of the sports fair that runs from November 20 to December 18, it would cost 36,331 pesos.
Likewise, the World Cup tickets, according to the prices registered by Grupo Mundomex, designated exclusive commercial agent in Mexico by the Mexican Federation of Football Association (FMF), offers an individual package that is the simplest, of a match of Mexico in the group stage plus an additional match, is around 15 thousand 542 dollars, around 310 thousand 483 Mexican pesos, while the most expensive is up to 17 thousand 162 dollars, which is equivalent to 342 thousand 846 pesos Mexicans.
In case of buying the tickets directly from the FIFA page, which does not include travel or lodging or any other benefit, the Mexicans would have to pay between 1,412 pesos, like 4,502 pesos per match for the group stage.
Another expense would be lodging and in case of not traveling with a package, according to the AirBNB platform, a single room in the city of Doha it would cost from 1,600 Mexican pesos per night, the cheapest option, to 8,200 pesos, the most expensive.
Meanwhile, lodging in a 3 or 4 star hotel would cost just over a thousand pesos a night.
Prices will not be an impediment for some Mexicans to travel to the sporting event, since the data shared by the Organizing Committee of the World Cup, who made a count of the tickets sold to date, 2.7 million tickets have been sold for the matches of the World Cup, where Mexico has 91 thousand 173 confirmed tickets, counting during all the phases of sale.
And this is how this sporting event continues to be the greatest attraction in the world, where even for the marketing industry it is relevant due to the amount of money, brands and consumers that are activated thanks to this sports festival.