PHILADELPHIA — Whatever you do, don’t call them the cheap seats.

The Denver Gazette sought to find the worst seats at Philadelphia Stadium for Brazil’s 3-0 World Cup win Friday night over Haiti. To navigate to the top of section 207, high up in the corner of the stadium, one almost needed Sherpas to assist in the climb.

At the end of the steep stairs, in row 30, seat 1, was Aleksey Jefimovs, 45, from Ventspils, Latvia. He paid $560 for his ticket in the stratosphere to look down at the ants, eh, players on the pitch.

Jefimovs, though, knew what he was getting into.

“For some people, this is the worst seat,’’ he said. “For me, it is the best. To be at the highest point is my goal. I’m trying to be at the highest point. I get a great view of the city and the stadium.”

Yes, Jefimovs went onto the seat map on the FIFA website and intentionally selected a seat that looked to be the farthest from the field. The avid soccer fan has now been to five World Cups and six European Championships and he regularly follows that trend.

Where Jefimovs sat, to his right there was room for two more seats but none had been placed there at what is usually named Lincoln Financial Field, built in 2003. It’s surprising FIFA didn’t have seats added there to make even more bucks.

The seats in row 30 are strangely numbered. While Jefimovs was in seat 1, going to his left, the seats have the numbers 4, 3 and 6 before resuming in a normal ascending order.

Seat 4 was vacant during the game, leaving nobody next to Jefimovs. Nevertheless, the game was listed as a sellout with 68,324 fans.

Two seats away from Jefimovs in 3 was Olson Desir, 47, a native of Haiti who has lived in Toronto the past 20 years. Desir paid $922 on GoTickets.com for his ticket.

He had no idea what he was getting into.

“I didn’t know much about the seat map,’’ he said. “I just picked whatever seat was available. It was a little hard to get up here. I had to stop for a minute because I was out of breath.”

Dressed in Haiti garb, Desir said he was “very, very, very disappointed” with his team’s performance. But at least he could check off having been to a World Cup game even if his wife and two children didn’t join him. They remained at the hotel in a money-saving move.

“I wanted to experience this for the first time,’’ Desir said.

Next to Desir in seat 6 was Sarmad Alamgir, 22, of Baltimore. He paid the meager price of $60, so one indeed could say he was in a cheap seat. He was joined by three friends, one of whom had somehow found four tickets in that row at that bargain price in a FIFA presale.

“It’s not too terrible,’’ Alamgir said of the view. “You can’t see the bottom of the field from here, but if you stand up, you can.”

After learning Alamgir had paid $866 less for the seat next to him, Desir said, “That’s crazy.”

Desir and Jefimovs, both attending the match on their own, chatted some about their seats.

“When I arrived, (Jefimovs) joked, ‘Oh, welcome to the worst seat,’’’ Desir said

The two talked about the strange numbering system in the last row. And even when informed Desir paid $362 more than he did, Jefmovs still complained about prices at the World Cup.

“This is the most expensive ticket I have ever paid and I’ve been traveling to see games for 30 years,’’ Jefimovs said. “The most expensive ticket I bought before (this World Cup) was at the Euro final in London in 2021 and it was $350.”

Jefimovs sells computers in Latvia when he’s not making like a mountain climber at stadiums. He previously saw games in this World Cup in Foxborough, Mass., a 1-0 win by Scotland over Haiti on June 13, and in Toronto, a 1-0 victory by Ghana over Panama on June 17. He paid about $400 each time to sit way up top.

Sitting in row 29 in front of Jefimovs was a party of four. It included Jeff Price, his son, Austin Price, Austin’s wife, Anne, and their son, Avery. Their tickets cost $420 apiece, and all were thrilled just to be in the stadium.

“When I was 8 years old, my dad took me to the World Cup in Washington D.C. (to see Belgium face Saudi Arabia in 1994),’’ said Austin, 40, who lives with his family in Pittsburgh. “Now my son is 8 and I am taking him to the World Cup. It’s not the best seats but the ambiance and the multicultural experience is a joy.”

Austin remembers when he went to the World Cup, a Belgium fan put him on his shoulders in the subway. While nobody hoisted Avery in the subway on the way to Friday’s game, a Brazil fan did give him a souvenir hat.

A big surprise for Austin Price was the guy sitting next to him in row 29. Austin had gone to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh years ago and fellow student Johan Mohd-Sani became one of his best friends.

The two hadn’t seen each other in a decade but knew both were going to Friday’s match. They met up earlier Friday to watch Team USA play Australia at the Hard Rock Cafe. They compared tickets and saw, unbelievably, they would be sitting next to each other.

“I couldn’t believe it,’’ said Modh-Sani, 44, who is from Rochester, N.Y., and paid $400 apiece for tickets for him, his wife and two children. “I had to check it four times to be sure. What are the odds of that?”

“Probably one in 25,000,’’ Austin Price said. “I looked it up.”

Meanwhile, Austin and others at the top of section 209 were looking way down. At one point, fans did “The Wave” but it took a long time for it arrive up in the far corner of Philadelphia Stadium.

Jefimovs didn’t participate in “The Wave.” He was busy taking photos from his seat.

“I always take pictures of the stadium from the highest point,’’ he said.

Jefimovs plans to see nine more games around North America in this World Cup, and he has been busy trying to find seats at the “highest point” in each stadium. If such a seat is unavailable at any of the venues, he plans to still hike up to it and take photos.