Going to North America '26: tickets, accommodations, etc. (non-politics)

I am not 100% sure, but I am pretty sure if you cart tickets, they are yours until you buy, delete them from your cart, or until the timer runs out.

 

All 3 Mexico host cities should have great atmosphere

 

The best place for experiencing the World Cup atmosphere this time will be:

The three Mexico cities (with 100% local interest and buy-in)
Miami (major tourist party spot and everyone concentrated in South Beach)

New York will see a lot of visitors but everything is a bit too spread out to generate any real atmosphere. Midtown area will be fun, with a large number of soccer bars, Times Square as a major destination (like Souq Waqif or Nikolskaya St in Moscow). And the trains and buses to the stadium go to and from Midtown, so a lot of fans end up there before and after games.

Honorable mention goes to Atlanta, Seattle, and Vancouver with their downtown stadiums. Vancouver and Seattle might see a lot of visitors from East Asia and Atlanta is having its Fanfest downtown near the stadium. Toronto could be good as well but it’s a bit larger and might swallow the WC.
And KC is hardly a destination, but it’s so small that everyone will be concentrated in the same area downtown, which makes it better than places like Dallas or LA, which have no center.

 

whole resale shop is nothing but another embarassment for fifa
actually very strange considering how much they are supposed to earn thru those 15% fees on both sides of sales

 

For the service they're providing, they should be getting a tight slap

 

I don’t think matches are held in your cart as I’ve read responses on Reddit from people whose items sold out when they tried to finalize their purchase.

Based on my experience, I would recommend being logged in to the ticket queue on multiple devices at least an hour before it is expected to open. You may want to try a number of different links to that queue, including any from the original email you received, the reminder email which will likely come the morning of the ticket window opening, as well as the link that was shared here in the last couple of days. It would be worth intermittently refreshing on one of those devices to see if that allows you to gain earlier access to the queue.

Once you gain access to the queue on the first device, you can finalize the purchase for the tickets that are your highest priority. You should then have another device that will gain access to the queue shortly after, and you can use that device to finalize subsequent purchases and so on. This approach worked for me in the Visa presale.

 

This is very helpful! Sorry for so many questions but after you finished a check out on one device, were you sent back to the queue or back to the ticket portal to buy more?

 

Like many of you I didn't receive an email for the Early Draw on November 7th which was very disappointing. I wasn't sure if that was it for the sales period(ie Domestic portion) and I was out of luck. I found some hope here on the FIFA FAQ:

• Email notifications containing information about the date and time slot will begin to be sent no earlier than 7 November 2025. Please note that notifications will not be sent simultaneously; some fans may receive their notification sooner than others while the sales phase remains open.
  

 

Agreed with everything...except that Dallas having no center. Most international visitors will choose Dallas (subject to pricing), the Fan Fest is at the State Fair, and it's a short walk to Commerce St. and Deep Ellum. Wish Uptown was closer, but it's a short train trip from the central hotels (and a short drive from the Fair.)

I know that many people are scoping out hotels in Arlington, which is great for game day. But if that's a base - even if only for 2-3 days - I'd look towards staying in central Dallas if you want to have a good time. Not enough UT-Arlington students around in June to make Arlington interesting, and Texas Live! isn't exactly hotel-friendly (unless you're in FIFA's Loews of course.) Not to say Dallas will have great atmosphere on non-match-days, but it shouldn't be hard to find a good time with some visitors.

I suspect more people in Ft. Worth will be talking high school football than World Cup. Hope I'm wrong.

 

Back to the queue unfortunately

 

Apologies if it's dumb question but are the emails going out currently purely for the DEP or should we also be getting emails (if we're lucky!) for the General sale? Or are those emails being sent out later?

 

It is purely the Domestic fans now and this week with everyone then hearing from 17th. Until FIFA change it of course.

 

Do you know if FIFA will put new tickets on sale between this national sale and next general sale?

 

I understand they add 25% more.

 

For early ticket draw the 17th was when it was supposed to be starting, with timeslot emails no earlier than 13th according to their rules (Post #4912)

Keep in mind though that the 75% for Domestic and 25% for Early Ticket Draw split was only for single match tickets according to the original article. The non Domestic starting November 17th was confirmed to have TST and VST too, but they were never explicitly confirmed for the Domestic Exclusivity but let's see what lucky users report on Wednesday.

 

This might not be the best question because of the FIFA ninjas lurking around here but did anyone that was NOT selected in the first draw manage to get in? I remember people talking about it

 

I did not get shit.

I guess if you do not get a spot by November 12th, then it means you missed out on this window?

 

For the domestic slot on wednesday, us account. All games besides mexico and canada will be available?

 

Just to clarify For domestic the US residents can only buy games in US, Mexicans in Mexico and Canadians in Canada.

 

that means that with a usa account, i can buy all games, besides the ones in mexico and canada? (The same for mexico residents and canada respectively)

 

Exactly.

 

I guess if I haven't had an email I've missed out on this phase as well?

 

No you can also get in the international section after the domestic one.

 

Surely they will have 3 different wait rooms. Canada and Mexico is only for 13 matches each. So I assume that they will have smaller groups.

 

Personally i woudl doubt it and think they will have the whole inventory together but with only access to games for the country where you live.