Can you still get FIFA World Cup 2026 tickets?

What were the official routes, and how did they work?

FIFA sold World Cup 2026 tickets in four public phases, and the first three were free-entry draws rather than first-come sales. The order matters, because it is the template FIFA has used most recently:

1. Visa Presale Draw, entries 10 to 19 September 2025. A random selection that handed out purchase slots from October 2025.
2. Early Ticket Draw, 27 to 31 October 2025, including a domestic exclusivity period.
3. Random Selection Draw, 11 December 2025 to 13 January 2026, alongside a dedicated window for supporters of qualified teams (with a late-qualifier window from 1 to 21 April 2026).
4. Last-Minute Sales Phase, from 1 April 2026 to the end of the tournament on 19 July 2026. This one was not a draw: first come, first served, in real time, single match tickets only.

Entering the draws cost nothing. You needed a free FIFA ticketing account, you applied inside the window, and you paid only if you were selected. Purchase limits ran throughout: 4 tickets per match, one match per day, 40 per household across the tournament. Prices started at USD 60 for group-stage seats and ran to USD 6,730 for the best seats at the final, with dynamic pricing on top.

Alongside those phases, FIFA ran its own Resale / Exchange Marketplace for tickets first bought on FIFA.com, open from October 2025 until roughly an hour after each kick-off, and official hospitality packages for anyone who wanted past the 4-ticket cap at a much higher price. The full phase history and every source sit on our World Cup 2026 event page.

How hard was it actually to get a ticket?

Hard, and the numbers are the useful part. FIFA reported more than 1.5 million Visa Presale Draw applications within 24 hours of that first window opening, and more than 1 million tickets sold after that phase alone. Knockout matches and the final were the scarcest of all.

Two things follow for the next cycle. First, the free draw is where the real allocation happens: by the time a first-come sale arrives, the best matches are long gone. Second, missing the window is the common way people lose out, not bad luck in the draw itself. Applying on the first day of a draw gives you exactly the same odds as applying on the last, so the only thing worth optimising is never missing the window at all. Our guide to how ticket ballots work covers that in general, and how to improve your ballot chances covers what actually helps.

Is there a Women's World Cup 2027 ballot yet?

Not yet, and there is one free step you can take. The FIFA Women's World Cup 2027 runs in Brazil from 24 June to 25 July 2027, and FIFA's ticket page for it is still a register-of-interest only: a free FIFA account lets you register to be notified when a sales phase is announced. We confirmed that on 27 July 2026 against FIFA's own tickets hub, which lists Brazil 2027 with "register your interest" for both tickets and hospitality, and no dates.

No ballot, no sale and no prices have been announced, and FIFA has not said whether 2027 will use draws or first-come sales. Going by the 2026 cycle (about nine months out) and the 2023 edition (about nine to ten months out), a first phase around late 2026 or early 2027 is a reasonable expectation, but that is our estimate and not an official date. Registering interest is free and takes a minute, which makes it the highest-value thing on this page. The live picture sits on our Women's World Cup 2027 event page and the full Brazil 2027 guide.

When do World Cup 2030 tickets go on sale?

Nothing is announced, and anyone selling you a 2030 ticket is selling you nothing. FIFA has published no ticketing timeline, no register-of-interest, no prices and no ballot for the 2030 tournament, which is co-hosted across Spain, Portugal and Morocco with centenary matches in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay.

Projecting from the 2026 pattern, where the first public draw opened about nine months before kick-off, a first sales phase around September 2029 is a rough estimate and no more. Hospitality tends to arrive earlier: for 2026 it opened roughly 19 months out. We track the record and every source on our World Cup 2030 event page, and the full 2030 guide explains what does and does not exist.

How do you avoid World Cup ticket scams?

This part does not expire with the tournament, because the same offers reappear for every edition. The rule is short: the only official primary source is the organizer's own ticketing site, and the only official resale is the organizer's own marketplace. Everything else is a risk.

Red flags worth walking away from:

• Anyone advertising "guaranteed" tickets for a match the organizer has not released. If FIFA cannot guarantee them, no one else can either.
• Sellers in social media replies, messaging apps or forum DMs. There is no buyer protection there, and a screenshot proves nothing.
• Any request to pay by bank transfer, gift card or cryptocurrency. Legitimate ticketing does not ask for those; they exist because they cannot be reversed.
• 2030 or 2027 "presale access" being sold. No such presale exists for either tournament.

Because World Cup tickets are digital and tied to conditions FIFA sets, a ticket bought outside official channels can be cancelled, leaving you with nothing at the turnstile. When a deal looks easier or cheaper than the official route, that is the signal to stop.

How do you make sure you are early next time?

Let the dates come to you. Our free calendar is unconditional: no signup, no payment, and it updates itself as official windows are confirmed, so a draw opening lands in your calendar rather than in a feed you happened to miss.

Beyond that, three things carry over from the 2026 cycle. Create the free organizer account before the window opens, not during it. Register interest wherever it exists, because that is how the announcement reaches you first. And treat the free draw as the main event rather than the warm-up. If you missed a ballot elsewhere, our what to do after missing a ballot guide covers the official fallbacks, and everything open now shows what is actually accepting entries.