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

they can just screen on the credit card number

 

People need to be careful about multiple accounts/applications. There were reports here of people getting banned last time for duplicate accounts/multiple applications.

 

I remember some of us complaining about being soft banned. My main account could cart but not successfully buy as every card was failing.

 

The tickets that aren’t in demand now will be passed over by scalpers and regular people just the same. If people don’t want the tickets now, scalpers don’t want them either.

Professional scalpers and FIFA have been following the RTB sale/resale prices and the hospitality packages prices (different for each city/team). Using that info and their own intuition from past events, they already have an idea of which matches will be in demand. Weekend games and those in big cities and attractive tourist destinations (NY, Miami, LA, Mexico, Rio, Moscow, St Petersburg) will resell for at least face value, no matter which teams end up playing. Visiting fans and local residents want those tickets and scalpers want to sell those tickets to them. If locals and visitors aren’t interested in matches in Houston, then those tickets won’t sell, whether it’s regular people or scalpers/bots that have access to the sale.

 

Do we have any information on whether we will need have the same concept of the Main untransferable (unless for official resale) tickets in our accounts, as this was the case in 2022?
Obviously will try to apply with several accounts and will get several tickets in different accounts. I prefer if i can transfer all of my tickets to one account and avoid the logging in and out from accounts before every game, especially with the app glitching in the first days in 2022.
in 2024 euros I could transfer my tickets freely, I hope it's repeated.

 

I have a strong feeling that due to dynamic pricing, prices are gonna match the current RTB prices for any particular match. M1 is going around $3900, how that would be implemented for different categories I don't know. we're gonna be shocked, disappointed and come out empty handed

 

Thank you for all the good info on this thread.

Would it be correct to say there is no way of being able to know you will see your team play outside of buying the hospitality ticket or waiting for the first-come-first-served after the draw?

Went to Brazil and Russia so a bit foggy on how it works best.

I would love to see a US game but realistically demand will be astronomical. I think watching an Iran game for me would be easier with less demand and want to target that.

 

The question arises: would Iran be playing?

 

disagree, but agree to disagree. Scalpers have no idea what each state/city’s demand is going to be. The only reflection will be that of the real people buying. The RTB market sample size is incredibly small and skewed.

Again, with FIFA taking more discretion and control over their prices for later phases, it is in their absolute best interest to figure out real demand from real people they can profit off in later phases and the resale market, as opposed to skewed “best guess off RTB” demand based on what scalpers think might be the case.

FIFA wants to gauge demand as quickly and accurately as possible, and the best way of doing that is ensuring a “real user” population accesses these slots. No other way about it. They have absolutely nothing to gain and everything to lose by allowing multiples and scalpers and aliases to convolute their analysis of sales and demand.

 

Great question, steering clear of politics it looks like the team will be playing in the World Cup barring them being denied visas(which would be cruel to do to any team).

So I believe the situation is the same for El Salvador, Honduras, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Sudan, Senegal, Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and other countries who have qualified or are in with a shot of qualifying

 

Why would scalpers and bot accounts be buying tickets that they aren’t sure they can resell for a profit? That’s their whole business model. They’re not interested in overpriced, low demand tickets and won’t be buying those (and thus not artificially inflating the demand).

I agree that no one can say for sure right now which matches will end up high demand. But the profitable scalpers are professionals with years and many tournaments of experience, and they’ll be able to make accurate judgements based on only what we know at this time.

 

In these pre-draw phases, you’ll have the opportunity to buy “follow-your-team” packages for the group stage (pending availability of course). If you buy that, you’ll get a ticket for each Iran group stage match. It’s the same as what they’ve offered for hospitality, just significantly cheaper.

And then after the draw, you’ll also have the opportunity to buy “conditional supporters tickets”. In the past, this gives you a ticket for a team’s knockout matches (only if they advance). And you could apply for any or all potential rounds (paying in advance with refunds once your team is eliminated). These are controlled by each team’s federation, so the application process isn’t always straightforward or open to everyone.

 

They are going to have no idea who is playing where. They may guess FIFA will organize big matches for big locations, but to invest plenty capital in a guess is a fools game. They will instead snap up late phase matches. It would be foolish to invest so much money in matches that they cannot say with certainty will be profitable, because even FIFA doesn’t know or hasn’t yet revealed what they want to do!

In any event, FIFA can sell ALL the tickets they need to even if they removed scalpers. Scalpers offer absolutely nothing to FIFA this round. You can even say FIFA themselves have assumed the role of the scalper with their “dynamic” prices. Again, scalpers will only skew analytics, because the only true reflection of demand is the end user.

Why skew your analysis of demand by including scalpers (whom don’t even know what the prices will be to begin with, and whom in my opinion will buy nothing other than QF rounds and beyond and the first match) who are estimating demand, instead of having mostly or only “real users” who will directly show FIFA the real demand.

Put yourself in FIFA’s shoes. Scalpers offer them absolutely nothing for this phase. Later phases with a “commit to buy” lottery when they are happy with set prices, then sure scalpers are welcome to them.

If I were FIFA and money hungry, I would absolutely take the 5 minutes necessary to write the few lines of code necessary to ensure real users access this presale, to accurately know how to set my prices to make the absolute most profit possible for further rounds.

 

Yeah, with dynamic pricing it'll be hard to find underpriced tickets like in prior WCs. And it may be like with the CWC or other events like the US Open where it's best to wait until closer to the date when they release more tickets.

That said I guess there may be some opportunity in the blind draws to.take a risk on some matches. I'm thinking matches in a bigger stadium in the group stage would have the more in demand team. So for example if Argentina's group is playing in Boston and New York at the same time,.would expect Argentina be allocated in NY. With that in mind may make sense to bid on those types of tickets, but how much is that gamble worth? I'm thinking around $200, given an Argentina match will be $500+ for example. But I think prices for matches in NY may start even higher than 200, which in this case makes me hard to be enthusiastic about this first blind stage.

Am I missing something? Not sure where people think there may be good value....

BTW no clues as to which group a top seeded team like Argentina will land in, other than obviously not the host country group? I know it is a draw but would be surprised if they landed in a Seattle/Vancouver group for example.

 

For those who went the FIFA Collect Route, do we have any idea of when we will be able to redeem RTB's? I know it has not been communicated yet, but is there a consensus opinion? I'm worried FIFA will not let RTB holders buy until later, when dynamic pricing has shot up all the prices. Hoping its some time in the next little bit.

 

Maybe exercise your Right NOT To Buy and wait for the dynamic prices to go down?

 

Exactly, most of us live here in the States. If the prices go too high just go chill at a fan zone. Some people will pay it some won't. I know a lot of people like going to these events with their families. I go solo because my wife and kids can care less about soccer, and I'm not spending a pretty penny just so they can be with me.

 

For CWC it was in April. Prices had cratered by then so no one redeemed. There is no information or concensus about 2026 redemption.

 

Yes I'm aware of that, but the challenge is that one has to be successful multiple times for 1 match. I liked Qatar because you could buy six tickets

 

If you want to maximize your chances of getting the tickets you want, pay close attention to @marianelah's posts

 

Hopefully new early “leaks” on ticket prices are wrong. But If confirmed I may skip most of the World Cup.

This Mexico supporters group is getting some pricing leaks. M1 cat1 $1830, average group game cat1 $500. Been following them for a while and their reporting is usually solid.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DORbfCTkdfF/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

 

I specifically recall the Trump Administration (Vance?) recently promising that all participating team staff and players will not have a problem getting visas. What they did not promise was that spectators from certain countries would have it easy getting visas...

 

Hey what have you heard about federation supporter tickets? For Canada I was told by folks in the know that 8% of Canada's home matches (that's 8% of about 150,000 = 12000 tickets) are allotted to Soccer Canada.

 

Not trying to get political. But the teams and staff will very likely depart after the tournament. Spectators would very likely not depart after the tournament. Hopefully every team gets a visa and we dont turn the World Cup into a bigger circus.

 

Not much news. All participating federations are getting 8%. No word on pricing for federations. But CWC teams got a price break for supporters. FIFA really wanted REAL fan support behind goal.