FIFA’s Official Prediction Partner Left World Cup Tickets Undelivered

Vukašin Petrović, a 24-year-old crypto trader from Serbia, was told FIFA’s official prediction-market partner had a World Cup ticket for him. The ticket was never delivered. He is one of the ADI Predictstreet users who say a prize built to pull early traders onto the app collapsed after they were instructed to claim seats.

On June 28 the company posted that ranks 66 to 100 on its World Cup Sprint were heading to a match and should enter their details on a dashboard. Spain lifted the trophy on July 19. Those seats, if they existed, are now for games that have already been played.

FIFA Named a Three-Month-Old Exchange Its Official Partner

On April 2, 2026, FIFA appointed ADI Predictstreet as its first-ever Official Partner for prediction markets under a multi-year deal. The platform had been incorporated weeks earlier. Its public accounts went live in March. Infantino sold the tie-up as fan engagement for a 48-team, 104-match tournament across 16 host cities in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

FIFA is committed to continually enhancing the fan experience and embracing innovation that brings supporters closer to the game. By partnering with FIFA, ADI Predictstreet will be introducing an exciting new way for fans around the world to engage with football, using insight and interaction to deepen their connection with our competitions.

Gianni Infantino, FIFA President, April 2, 2026 partnership announcement

Ajay Hans Raj Bhatia, listed as principal council member, stood with Infantino for the signing photos and called the deal a defining moment for how audiences engage with major events. Dimitrios Psarrakis, the chief executive, later said the June 8 launch would deliver a regulated platform at global scale three days before kickoff. The appointment sat inside FIFA’s cash-first rebuild of the 2026 World Cup, a tournament already stretching into new sponsor categories, new ticket tiers and a 48-team grid.

Predict Street Limited, the Gibraltar company behind the brand, holds Gibraltar Gambling Commission Licence 167 as a betting intermediary. Users trade yes-or-no contracts with each other. The house does not take the other side. The about page says adults 18 or over may use it only where local law allows, and that some countries are blocked at registration.

Tickets on a Leaderboard Scored for Followers

The World Cup Sprint opened on June 11, the same day the tournament did. Users minted a Predictstreet Card, opened daily packs, kept a streak and climbed a public board. Referrals added points. The company said FIFA World Cup tickets sat behind those packs and behind the top of the board, with Finals, semi-finals and other matches in the mix.

HOW THE SPRINT AWARDED SEATS

• Top 100: Ranks 1 to 100 on the leaderboard were told they would win FIFA World Cup 2026 tickets.
• Rank 1 bonus: The top of the board was reserved two tickets to the Final.
• Mid-board snapshot: On June 28 the company said ranks 66 to 100 should open the dashboard and enter details to claim a match ticket.
• Daily packs: Check-ins were also sold as a path to points, multipliers and tickets, with a broken streak resetting the run.
• Card score: Tiers from Base through Diamond were built from X followers, mindshare, trading volume, profit and loss, ADI token holdings and Sprint points.

That scoring list is the tell. A football supporter who never held the token and never farmed followers started behind a trader who did both. The contest that advertised stadium seats ran on reach and crypto inventory. Replies under the launch post filled up with referral codes and “100x multiplier” pitches, not seating maps or visa advice.

Ranks 66 to 100 Were Told to Claim Seats

The June 28 post was unambiguous. “If you finished ranks 66 – 100, you’re heading to a FIFA World Cup 2026 match,” the official account wrote. “Head to the dashboard and enter your details to claim your ticket.” Thirty-five places on that snapshot were told the prize had landed.

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Petrović was in that unhappy group of users who then waited. The ticket did not show up. Other traders described the same gap between a winner notice and an empty inbox, alongside bugs that blocked withdrawals. One user who posted that he had won Category 1 seats for France against Norway immediately tried to raffle them because he could not attend, which is how a stadium prize behaves when the audience is a referral board rather than a supporters’ club.

WHAT WE KNOW

• The claim post: ADI Predictstreet told ranks 66 to 100 to submit details for a World Cup match ticket on June 28.
• The named user: Petrović, 24, from Serbia, says the seat he was told he had won was never delivered.
• The calendar: The World Cup ended on July 19, so any undelivered match ticket for that tournament is now for a game that has already been played.

WHAT IS UNCONFIRMED

• FIFA’s allocation: FIFA has not published how many official tickets, if any, were set aside for the Sprint.
• Rank 1 seats: There is no public confirmation that the two Finals tickets reserved for first place were scanned at the gate.
• A company tally: ADI Predictstreet has not issued a public count of tickets handed over versus winner notices sent.

On July 2, ten days before those complaints were laid out in detail, the company put out a note about a “successful launch” and permission to add markets in entertainment, culture, weather and politics once the tournament ended. The boards were still up. The winner notices were already in dispute.

$2,070,479 on the Official Winner Market

The FIFA badge bought visibility that the order book never matched. Pitch-side LED rotated the brand through knockout nights. The company’s own winner market still shows $2,070,479 of volume on the contract that resolved to the team that won the tournament. Spain finished as the 99 percent outcome on that page after beating Argentina in the Final.

WORLD CUP WINNER CONTRACT VOLUME

By July 11, with the Final still eight days away, Kalshi’s winner contract had already taken in $1.1 billion and Polymarket’s $4.2 billion. ADI Predictstreet was the name on the stadium boards. It was not the name on the trades. Withdrawal complaints sat on top of that thin book: users said they could not get funds off the platform even when a market had settled.

US users never reached the Gibraltar site directly. A geo-block sent them toward a Fanatics Markets World Cup Hub, later joined by a Kalshi co-brand, because the native chain and stablecoin setup was not licensed for American event contracts. The official partner of the tournament could not take an American fan’s trade on its own home page.

Nine Days From Incorporation to a Gambling Licence

Predict Street Limited was incorporated on March 17, 2026. Nigel Feetham, Gibraltar’s minister for justice, trade and industry, granted the betting-intermediary licence on March 26, nine days later, and told parliament the approval had come in record time. Andrew Lyman, the Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner, said a concentrated push was needed before the World Cup run-up and that speed did not mean a lack of scrutiny.

FIFA had already put the brand on the FIFA Series, which opened on March 25, a day before the licence existed. The governing body was presenting an operator that Gibraltar had not yet authorised. The public register still lists Predict Street Limited as a betting intermediary.

FROM SHELL COMPANY TO STADIUM BOARDS

1. March 17, 2026: Predict Street Limited is incorporated in Gibraltar.
2. March 25, 2026: FIFA Series boards carry Predictstreet as presenting partner, one day before the licence.
3. March 26, 2026: Gibraltar issues the betting-intermediary licence.
4. April 2, 2026: FIFA names ADI Predictstreet its official prediction-market partner.
5. June 8, 2026: The real-money platform goes live, three days before the World Cup.
6. June 11, 2026: The Sprint opens and advertises tickets for ranks 1 to 100.
7. June 28, 2026: Ranks 66 to 100 are told to claim a match ticket.
8. July 19, 2026: The tournament ends. Undelivered match tickets have nowhere left to be scanned.

ADI Foundation describes itself as a project founded by Sirius International, the digital arm of International Holding Company, the Abu Dhabi group chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Gibraltar filings name directors Akshay Kumar Mahajan, Sunidhi Pasan and Andrew Peter Montegriffo. In a later statement the prediction company said there was no involvement of any member of any royal family, then blamed that wording on confusion and said it was working to become an independent entity. The GitHub description and the holding-company chain were already public.

What the FIFA Badge Did Not Cover

FIFA’s April note promised real-time monitoring of suspicious trading and structured reporting. The June 8 launch list ran from Sumsub identity checks to Global Ledger wallet monitoring, Modulus surveillance and data from Sportradar, Stats Perform and LSports. None of those names puts a paper ticket in a winner’s FIFA app. Integrity language covered markets. The Sprint prize sat outside that stack, as a marketing mechanic scored on followers and token holdings.

Psarrakis said billions of fans would meet the product during the tournament. The fans who actually climbed the board were asked for passport details after a snapshot lock, then left to chase support. Infantino’s line about bringing supporters closer to the game does not describe a 24-year-old in Serbia staring at a dashboard that never produced a seat.

The partnership is multi-year, so the badge outlives the 2026 ticket. That is the part FIFA still owns. The operator can add weather and politics markets, as the July 2 note sketched. It cannot unwind a June 28 claim post that told 35 people they were going to a match.

Referral Posts Still Promise World Cup Tickets

Through September 8, 9 and 10, accounts were still posting the same Sprint template: a newly minted Gold or Base card, a line that the World Cup Sprint “officially starts now,” and a promise of FIFA World Cup 2026 tickets behind a referral link. The Final was on July 19. The copy did not notice.

That leftover farm is the aftertaste of the June contest. The official partner of the World Cup used tickets as bait for a leaderboard that paid out in points, streaks and token-weighted tiers. Some of those tickets, users say, never became seats. The posts harvesting the next wave of cards are still talking as if the group stage is tomorrow.

Petrović’s unused winner notice sits at the far end of that funnel. FIFA got a new sponsor category and six weeks of LED. The exchange got the boards. The people told to enter their details for ranks 66 to 100 got a dashboard and, in the cases that have been named, no match.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who Operates ADI Predictstreet and Where Is It Licensed?

Predict Street Limited, Gibraltar company number 126487, operates the platform from Office 226, 1st Floor, World Trade Centre, 6 Bayside Road, Gibraltar, under remote gambling licence 167 as a betting intermediary. The privacy policy lists that licence against the Gibraltar Gambling Act 2025. ADI Predictstreet is the consumer brand; ADI Chain is the blockchain the company calls its first consumer-facing application.

When Did FIFA Appoint ADI Predictstreet as a World Cup Partner?

FIFA announced the multi-year appointment on April 2, 2026, and also named the firm presenting partner for its free-to-play bracket challenge. The real-money site was still weeks from its June 8 launch at the moment of the announcement, and FIFA Series advertising had already used the brand on March 25.

How Did the World Cup Sprint Ticket Prizes Work?

The earn window ran 39 days from June 10 to July 18, with a 1.0x base through June 26, a 1.5x in-play multiplier from June 26 to July 10, and a 2.0x peak from July 10 to July 18. Tickets were advertised both through daily packs and through ranks 1 to 100, with two Finals tickets reserved for rank 1, and a June 28 snapshot that told ranks 66 to 100 to claim a match seat on the dashboard.

Can People in the United States Trade on Adipredictstreet.com?

No. A geographic block meets US IP addresses on the native site. During the tournament, eligible users in 23 states and four territories were pointed to a co-branded Fanatics Markets World Cup Hub, and a later Kalshi collaboration extended the official branding onto a US-regulated venue. Direct deposits and trades on the Gibraltar site were not available from inside the United States.

Disclaimer: This article is news reporting and analysis of a FIFA commercial partnership and a prize promotion tied to a licensed prediction market. It is informational only and is not investment advice, gambling advice, or a recommendation to trade event contracts, hold tokens, or enter any giveaway. Readers who are considering prediction-market trading or related financial products should consult a qualified financial adviser and check the gambling and securities rules that apply where they live. Volumes, licence status, prize claims and product availability reflect the primary pages and public posts cited here and can change as markets settle and operators update their terms.