World Cup 2018 opening tickets go on sale starting at £80, final for $829 and with special seats available for obese people

Tickets for the World Cup in Russia have gone on sale with the cheapest group stage matches available at £80 for overseas supporters - and special seats for obese people.

The most expensive ticket is priced at £829 - a Category 1 seat for the World Cup final at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.

That price is a £151 increase on the equivalent ticket at the 2014 Brazil World Cup final in Rio de Janeiro.

 

Special tickets have been made available for obese people, whose body mass index exceeds or is equal to 35 metres per square metre. This is roughly the equivalent of a someone who is 5ft 10ins and weighs 18 stone.

Those tickets are an additional category to the special access tickets - which provide availability to wheelchair users, people with guide dogs and people with reduced mobility or other requirements. They are priced the same as Category 3.

Fans can now begin applying for tickets to any of the 64 matches but there is no need to rush the process with the deadline not until October 12.

Applicants will then be selected at random and notified whether they have been successful by November 16.

Russian residents will be able to purchase their own special Category 4 tickets which start at just £17 ahead of the first ever World Cup finals to be held in their country.

Another separate application phase will begin on December 5, four days after the group stages are drawn. There will also be a last-minute sales phase starting on April 18.

The World Cup finals begin on June 14 and run until the final on July 15.

Seven countries have already booked their place at the World Cup - Brazil, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Belgium, South Korea, Saudi Arabia joining the hosts Russia.

England are currently top of Group F in their European qualifying section with two matches remaining.

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