How we make money — and how we don’t.
Of The Pitchis free to read, and we keep it that way partly through affiliate partnerships. Here’s exactly what that means, in plain language.
Of The Pitch is an independent fan guide and is not affiliated with FIFA or any national football association.
Some of our guides contain affiliate links. If you click one and sign up for or buy a product, we may earn a small commission — at no extra cost to you. You never pay more for using our link.
Where they exist, these links sit alongside the kinds of things a travelling fan actually books — flights, accommodation and transport; tours and matchday experiences; ticket and hospitality resellers; streaming or broadcast subscriptions for watching matches; travel insurance and eSIMs; and kit and merchandise. We link to a paid option only where we think it genuinely helps, and we say plainly when the free or official route is the better one.
A commission never changes our recommendation.
We do not accept payment to feature a product, and we don’t recommend anything we wouldn’t suggest to a friend making the same trip. Nothing on this site is behind a paywall, and you never need to buy through us to use our guides.
One thing worth stating clearly: for match tickets, the official sale channel is the one we point you to first. Where we mention a resale or hospitality marketplace, treat it as an option to research, not an endorsement — prices, legitimacy and transfer rules vary, and only the official channel is guaranteed.
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