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Sky-high ticket prices won’t be the only thing emptying the wallets of soccer fans attending World Cup matches at some U.S. venues this spring. New Jersey Transit officials announced Friday that fans trying to get to MetLife Stadium from New York City can expect to shell out $150 for a round-trip train fare for each match. That’s nearly 12 times the regular $12.90 fare to get from Manhattan’s Penn Station to the stadium in East Rutherford. Taking public transit to matches in Boston’s suburbs will also be costly. Officials there previously announced buses to Gillette Stadium will cost $95. Taking the train will cost $80. Other U.S. host cities have promised to keep transit costs low.

FIFA is putting more World Cup tickets on sale after angering some fans by adding new, more expensive categories. Soccer’s governing body announced it will make more tickets available at 11 a.m. Eastern Wednesday for all 104 games in Categories 1, 2 and 3 plus the new “front category” pricing it added this month. The new category sparked online complaints from fans who said they thought the better seats in the categories they had bought tickets for were withheld and they were assigned less favorable locations. FIFA in December put tickets on sale at prices ranging from $140 for Category 3 in the first round to $8,680 for the final, then raised prices to as much as $10,990 when sales reopened on April 1.