{"id":495416,"date":"2025-09-12T06:26:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495416"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:26:37","slug":"fifa-receives-over-1-5-million-ticket-requests-in-first-24-hours-for-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fifa-receives-over-1-5-million-ticket-requests-in-first-24-hours-for-2026-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA receives over 1.5 million ticket requests in first 24 hours for 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"156\" data-end=\"446\">FIFA revealed that more than 1.5 million ticket applications came in within just 24 hours of opening the presale stage for the 2026 World Cup. Fans from 210 countries have already registered their interest.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"448\" data-end=\"672\">The strongest demand has come from the three host nations \u2014 the United States, Mexico and Canada. Applications from Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, England, Spain, Portugal and Germany followed closely behind.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"674\" data-end=\"1001\">The 2026 edition will feature 104 matches across 16 cities in North America, making it the biggest World Cup in history. With interest at record-breaking levels, FIFA emphasized that the timing of applications will not influence chances of success, as the presale draw remains open until September 19 at 11:00 ET (17:00 CET).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1003\" data-end=\"1165\">Fans selected through the draw will receive email notifications starting September 29, with ticket purchases opening on October 1 through designated time slots.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2026 World Cup Ticket Timeline<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Sept 10-19, 2025: Visa Presale Draw<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Oct 27-31, 2025: Early Ticket Draw<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Dec 5, 2025: Final Draw<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Mid-Dec 2025: Random Selection Draw<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 2026: Last-Minute Sales<\/p>\n<p>MARK YOUR CALENDARS<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WorldCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/2026WorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#2026WorldCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USMNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#USMNT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MLS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MLS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YD3Bfc5tXA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YD3Bfc5tXA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Favian Renkel (@FavianRenkel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FavianRenkel\/status\/1964437805540790460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1167\" data-end=\"1414\">Prices will begin at $60, although <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fifa-announces-world-cup-2026-ticket-prices-and-different-sales-phases\/\">FIFA has confirmed that a dynamic pricing system will be applied<\/a> during the initial sales phase, meaning costs will fluctuate depending on demand. Additional phases of ticket sales are set to launch in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA revealed that more than 1.5 million ticket applications came in within just 24 hours of opening the presale stage for the 2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":495417,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17518,17367],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17897,26788,432],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The most amount of applications came from the three host countries - USA, Canada and Mexico","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495418,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495416\/revisions\/495418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495416"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495416"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}