FIFA President Gianni Infantino revealed what number of tickets have been requested for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The World Cup can be held from June 11 to July 19, 2026, with 16 cities in the USA, Canada and Mexico enjoying host to the largest sporting occasion on the planet.
Registration has been underway in latest months, with followers vying to safe a profitable ticket.
In line with Infantino‘s newest Instagram replace, greater than 150 million tickets have been requested for the FIFA World Cup in simply 15 days, which is a file. A median of 10 million tickets are being requested each single day.
This beautiful achievement implies that the upcoming World Cup has been “oversubscribed” 30 instances, with followers requesting tickets from greater than 200 international locations around the globe.
Because the FIFA president famous, 150 million ticket requests is the equal of 300 years’ price of World Cup matches.
Infantino known as the response from followers “overwhelming” and a “true illustration” of how beloved soccer (soccer in the USA) is on a world scale. “We’re going to make historical past in North America once we carry the world collectively like by no means earlier than in a celebration of unity and the perfect of soccer,” he added.
January 13, 2026, at 11 a.m. EST will mark the top of the Random Choice Draw Gross sales Part. At that time, tickets can be assigned randomly. There can be extra gross sales phases sooner or later, so not each ticket can be handed out simply but.
All through the ticket request interval, Infantino has needed to defend himself and FIFA in opposition to accusations that the group has inflated ticket costs, which might run upwards of 1000’s of {dollars}.
This pressured FIFA to announce it will be promoting $60 supporter entry tier tickets for followers of the certified groups, however it seems that the supply of tickets at this tier can be extraordinarily restricted.
Followers are requesting tickets to World Cup video games that can be performed in 16 whole cities throughout North America. Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas Metropolis, Los Angeles, Miami, New York/New Jersey, Philadelphia, San Francisco Bay Space, and Seattle are the host cities within the U.S.
In the meantime, Toronto and Vancouver will host video games in Canada, with video games in Mexico being performed in solely two cities (Mexico Metropolis and Monterrey).
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will roll out in two fundamental levels. The primary is the Group stage, with three matchdays from June 11-17, June 18-23 and June 24-27.
Then the Knockout stage will start with the Spherical of 32 from June 28-July 3 and the Spherical of 16 from July 4-7. From there, the groups will compete within the quarterfinals (July Sept. 11) and semifinals (July 14-15), with the match for third place going down on July 18 and the championship recreation on July 19.
There are lower than six months till the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off, which implies the countdown is on to search out out who will succeed Argentina, the crew that gained the 2022 World Cup.