With schedule now nearly set, more World Cup tickets going on sale Thursday
- - With schedule now nearly set, more World Cup tickets going on sale Thursday
David K. LiDecember 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Another batch of World Cup tickets hit the primary market Thursday morning, with fans focused on the recently unveiled match schedule and their ballooning credit card balances.
This will be the first box office sale since last week's draw determined group settings and nearly the full listing of matchups, dates and times.
Previous ticket sales were just for dates and venues, without the benefit of knowing which teams would be playing at each site and time slot.
How to buy tickets for the World Cup -
After establishing an account with FIFA, fans can sign in between 11 a.m. EST Thursday and Jan. 13. The timing of entry does not aff ct success, according to FIFA.
That’s when and where fans can pick matches they want to attend and the price category of tickets.
Credit cards will be automatically charged for all tickets they win in this lottery draw. So fans should not apply for more tickets that they can afford.
The maximum number of tickets that can be purchased for any one match is four, and the max for the entire tournament is 40, throughout all FIFA sales.
Now, 42 of the tournament's 48 teams have already qualified and consumers can shop for their individual favorite teams, as long as they're among the 3½ dozen squads to have already punched their tickets for North America for this summer.
Six more slots are still open and will be filled in the coming months, with squads such as four-time champion Italy, sentimental favorite Ukraine or Turkey, seeking its first tournament appearance since its third-place finish of 2002, vying for those cherished spots.
If the secondary ticket market is any indicator, matches at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City or those featuring hosts the United States, Canada or Mexico will be the competition's hottest ducats.
There are 72 group stage matches spread across 16 North American venues, each playing host to three, four or five matches.
Three contests slated for the Mexican capital have some of the tournament's highest "get in" prices — in other words, the most money needed just to purchase the worst seats in the house.
At about midday Wednesday, the cheapest pair of tickets into Match 1 on June 11, featuring host Mexico vs. South Africa, cost just over $3,900, according to American secondary seller StubHub. The three group stage contests in Mexico City are going for an average of $2,300 a ticket.
The most affordable admissions could be in Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium, where five matches had average get-in prices in the low $300s on Wednesday.
That's a bit surprising considering that local Atlanta United FC is among the biggest draws in the MLS and group stage matches there feature two games of perennial powerhouse Spain and its teen superstar Lamine Yamal.
Overall, in group stage action, matches involving Mexico cost more than $2,600 to get inside, according to StubHub listings Wednesday afternoon, while American and Canadian baseline prices were hovering around $1,100.
Other big-ticket teams include Brazil, Portugal, Argentina and Colombia, with get-in prices averaging more than $1,000 a ticket. Argentina, the defending champion, boasts a team that will likely feature Lionel Messi, while Portugal has Cristiano Ronaldo.
Cost-conscious soccer fans could satisfy their fix for the beautiful game by checking out first-time qualifier Cape Verde. A ticket to a Blue Sharks match, at this moment on the secondary market, could go in the low-$300s.
Tickets for matches involving Tunisia and Saudi Arabia are now in the mid-$300s.
Source: “AOL Sports”
