Up to 5,000 euros
Ticket sales for the 2026 World Cup starts
Updated on 10.09.2025 – 9:41 a.m.Reading time: 3 min.
From Wednesday, FIFA will start selling the first regular tickets for the World Cup next year. What fans have to pay attention to when buying a ticket.
Almost nine months before the start of the football World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the USA, FIFA will start selling the first regular tickets on Wednesday. First of all, however, not all fans are allowed to access – and there are also a few things to consider. The most important questions before the start.
If you are interested in tickets, you have to register for the sale beforehand. Registration is possible on the FIFA website from Wednesday at 5 p.m. (CEST) by September 19. However, the prerequisite for this is the possession of a visa card. The payment card provider, a sponsor of the World Association, has the exclusive rights in the first phase.
If you are lucky in the random selection process, from September 29, by email, will receive a date and a time window that begins on October 1 for buying a ticket. Then individual tickets for all 104 World Cup games should be available. According to FIFA, it is not guaranteed that everyone can buy cards. There should also be tickets in the package for the venues and the preliminary round games of the three organizers.
The cheapest tickets from $ 60 (almost 51 euros) should be available for the preliminary round games. The most expensive entry ticket for the final, which takes place in East Rutherford near New York on July 19, costs $ 6,730 (around 5,760 euros). The World Association did not announce any further price categories.
This should also be because there are no fixed prices anyway. As FIFA confirmed, they should be dynamically adapted to demand. This wants to “optimize the income, but also the number of spectators in the stadiums, told FIFA official Heimo Schirgi of the AP news agency.
If a particularly large number of spectators want to buy a certain entry ticket, their price could be adapted significantly upwards in the middle of the sale. On the other hand, if the demand is low, the opposite case is also possible: at the club World Cup, ticket prices had dropped to less than $ 14 (just under 12 euros). FIFA did not say exactly how the prices should be adjusted.