2026 FIFA World Cup - Canada, Mexico, USA

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

i went to the 1994 World Cup, 6 games in Dallas' Cotton Bowl halfway up in the corner, $275 which was alot!

Each game or for all 6?

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

Each game or for all 6?

All 6!

[lazypucker]

I remembered I got the follow Brazil all the way to the finals Cat 2 tickets and I paid $1300 USD for all 7 games in 2002. In 2006 I paid similar money for 6 games (no final ticket).

Now the prices are just crazy

[Winsor_Pilates]

Just logged in to see the offered tickets now and I could get games in Toronto or LA, but the pricing is at least $600+ for the Toronto games and in the thousands for the LA games.

[fundmark19]

Decided to splurge on Canada vs Swiss tickets. Probably my only chance to see Canada play a world cup game on home soil in my lifetime so bit the bullet. Looks like we will be doing:

Can vsw Swiss
Nzl vs Bel

Probably going to sell off my round of 32 tickets in Dallas since I don't feel like going to the USA but not sure yet.

[blankall]

Also landed Canada Swiss tickets this afternoon....All they had was Category 1 to purchase. Ended up spending more than I ever thought I would on a soccer game. ($900/ticket).

[trackercowe]

I know the topic is not of much importance, but what will happen with Iran at the World Cup?

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by trackercowe

I know the topic is not of much importance, but what will happen with Iran at the World Cup?

Iraq are next but they are in the playoffs in March. UAE are next after that.

Or a NEW Iran!

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

Through a series of gemini, youtube, and wiki rabbit holes I realized while visiting Zadar, I stayed at the same hotel that Luka Modrić stayed at as a child when displaced during the wars, and visited the playground where he played soccer.

How beautiful is Zadar?

We flew there and drove straight for Split for a couple of days, then on to Dubrovnik. We drove back to Zadar the day before we flew home. We were so sad we didn’t give Zadar more time. It is such a beautiful place.

[Senator Clay Davis]

I will keep saying to be patient if you want to go to a game, would expect there to be very cheap, well below face tickets for some matches as it gets closer to June.

Six days after FIFA president Gianni Infantino claimed that “every” 2026 World Cup match is “already sold out,” FIFA, out of nowhere, launched an effort to sell World Cup tickets.

It emailed fans advertising an “exclusive additional chance to purchase,” and warned that “availability is extremely limited.” Then, from Wednesday onward, it offered tickets to at least 64 of the World Cup’s 104 games, according to fans who sent information and screenshots to The Athletic.

The unexpected sale was, some experts suspect, the clearest evidence yet that FIFA has perhaps overstated demand for some World Cup games — or, rather, that it has priced out segments of that demand.

“When they say there’s incredibly high demand for this [World Cup], of course that’s true,” Jim McCarthy, a ticketing industry veteran, told The Athletic. “But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a whole bunch of games that are going to need some [marketing] support, and probably are still overpriced.”

It is not entirely clear why FIFA created this surprise sales window. One source suggested that the inventory could include tickets that had been offered to (and declined by) broadcasters and sponsors. Others assume it was tickets that FIFA wasn’t able to sell in its main lottery phase, the “Random Selection Draw,” which wrapped up last month.

Either way, the 64-plus matches were ones that FIFA hadn’t fully sold, despite Infantino’s claim, and despite a purported 508 million ticket requests.

And they speak to the likely truth behind that big nine-digit number, which “doesn’t tell the whole story,” McCarthy said.

And the single biggest takeaway was that the U.S. vs. Paraguay, the American opener at SoFi Stadium near Los Angeles, was beyond available.

It was available when the Los Angeles window opened at 3 p.m. ET on Wednesday, and still available hours later, and still available throughout Thursday, into Friday morning. On the main page of FIFA’s portal, it didn’t even get a “limited availability” tag — as other matches did, either immediately or as fans scooped up the inventory.

Why? Well, likely because FIFA priced Category 1 tickets to that game at $2,735 and Category 2 tickets at $1,940. At the start of sales back in October, it was the third-most expensive game of the entire tournament, sandwiched between the two semifinals.

As a result, many U.S. men’s national team supporters — or at least those who’ve spoken to The Athletic — focused their efforts and their funds on getting to Seattle for the second group match, or to Los Angeles for the group finale, each of which costs less than a third of the opener’s prices.

And over the five months since, the opener was one of relatively few games for which FIFA didn’t raise prices — likely an implicit acknowledgement that tickets to that game haven’t sold as well as expected.

Category 3 tickets to that game, priced at $1,120, have seemingly sold, but fans have evidently balked at the higher numbers.

Similar trends seem to exist for less-glamorous games at lower price points. In every sales phase, at every game, Category 3 (and virtually non-existent Category 4) seats have disappeared quickly. But hours after last week’s access began, Uruguay vs. Cape Verde, Jordan vs. Algeria, Croatia vs. Ghana and even Tunisia vs. Netherlands still had plenty of Category 1 and 2 tickets available.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/708...-demand-usmnt/