Mayor Zohran Mamdani boasted Thursday that the Big Apple will hold a lottery for 1,000 discounted FIFA World Cup tickets for lucky winners – after the city kicked-in $90 million for the tournament.

The tickets will be $50 for those lucky enough to win the pitch, coming with free round-trip bus rides to the matches in New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, Mamdani announced during an event in Harlem.

The soccer-loving socialist made a show of contending no taxpayer money directly went toward the low-cost tickets – an assertion that quickly had insiders crying foul.

“FIFA will be raking in billions with this World Cup, thanks in part to the largesse of New York City taxpayers, and in return they give us a measly 1,000 low-cost tickets?” said David Carr (R-Staten Island), the minority leader for the City Council.

“I think the Mayor shanked that one.”

Everything about the World Cup has come with a hefty price tag for the trifecta of New York City, New York and New Jersey that’s hosting the soccer spectacle.

The sky-high prices of World Cup tickets has fans and would-be buyers flashing a red card, with even billionaire President Trump saying he wouldn’t fork over the $1,000 to watch the US team’s opening game.

And fan demand for tickets has unsurprisingly been less-than-enthusiastic, with thousands of tickets still unsold for group-stage games in many US host cities, Newsweek reported.

Mamdani, as diehard a fan of English soccer team Arsenal FC, argued Thursday that the people’s game should be available to the people in one of his signature slick social media videos.

He ran down a list of what $50 can buy in New York City, jokingly including a 10-month subscription to the New York Post’s “hard-hitting journalism.”

“And for 1,000 lucky New Yorkers? A ticket to the World Cup,” he said.

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The soccer lottery will be split up into batches for games in the group stage and knockout round during the six-week tournament — but none for the finals.

Those games will be Brazil vs. Morocco on June 13, France vs. Senegal on June 16, Norway vs. Senegal on June 22, Ecuador vs. Germany on June 25 and Panama vs. England on June 27.

Another round of 32 game on June 30 and a round of 16 game on July 5 will also be included. 

Mamdani said the tickets will be non-transferable to fight against scalping and to ensure hardscrabble soccer fans actually get them.

“These are not tickets that can then be bought and flipped for a different price,” he said. 

The face value for those ticket stood at $500, sources said.

City Hall officials said the host committee will provide the tickets, with Mamdani performing fancy footwork around the sticky issue of how much taxpayer money will go into the perk.

“These are part of the conversations that we’ve been having with the host committee and the partnership that we built with the host committee over this time,” he said. “I can tell you that there’s no taxpayer funding going toward the allocation of these tickets.”

New York City is likely to pay roughly $90 million in taxpayer dollars for the World Cup, including $20 million directly to the host committee that helped arrange the ticket lottery.

Another $29 million will go toward the city’s Economic Development Corporation, $12 million to the NYPD, $4.9 million on marketing and even more yet-unspecified costs toward police overtime and “community outreach, according to sources familiar with the matter.

“This isn’t that impressive, it’s not that many tickets, and, yes, taxpayer dollars were for sure used for this,” one source with knowledge of World Cup talks said about Mamdani’s lottery.

FIFA World Cup games are expected to spark $3.3 billion in economic impact for New York and New Jersey, with the city projecting it’ll reap $51 million in tax revenue as tourists flock to the tri-state area – much less than it will be spending.

The low-price ticket lottery unfortunately will leave soccer fans outside the five boroughs in the Empire State and New Jersey high-and-dry. 

Neither New York or New Jersey state officials had negotiated ticket giveaways in their talks with FIFA, sources said.

NJ Transit officials had planned to raise round-trip World Cup train tickets from Manhattan to MetLife Stadium to a whopping $150, a more than 1,000% increase, to avoid soaking Garden State taxpayers with the cost.

They eventually trimmed it $105.

Despite New Jersey officials seemingly failing to strike a bargain for tickets, Gov. Mikie Sheril’s spokesman Steve Sigmund hammered FIFA for leading Garden State residents down a garden path.

“FIFA not caring about costs for New Jersey residents isn’t new,” he said.

“This is just another reason why Governor Sherrill is working hard to lower costs on our own, including securing $3.6 million to discount tickets for NJ Transit riders whose commutes are impacted by the World Cup games, and why we are maximizing the economic benefits and excitement of the games throughout the State.”

A spokesperson for Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state has invested money to make sure all New Yorkers can enjoy the World Cup.

“Governor Hochul has invested millions of dollars in state funding to make the World Cup experience a safe and enjoyable success for all New Yorkers including free fan fests where everyone can enjoy the games and low cost transportation options to and from the stadium,” the spokesperson said.

– Additional reporting by Vaughn Golden