Earlier, after the draw held in December, this ticket cost $8,680. Category 2 tickets for the final on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, now stand at $7,380, compared to the earlier $5,575, while Category 3 has jumped to $5,785, from $4,185. By Wednesday evening, tickets had been advertised for 17 out of 72 group stage matches, while no tickets had been offered for the knockout stage yet. The world football governing body uses dynamic pricing for this tournament, which will be played in 11 U.S. cities, three cities in Mexico, and two in Canada. For the World Cup opener in the United States and the USA-Paraguay match on June 12 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, only tickets priced at $2,735 were available by evening, which is also the most expensive price category, and the price had not changed since December. No tickets were offered for the USA's match against Australia on June 19 in Seattle, nor for their encounter against Turkey on June 25 in Inglewood. For the tournament opening match between Mexico and Saudi Arabia on June 11 in Mexico City, only tickets priced at $2,985 were available by evening, an increase from $2,355 in December. <b>For Canada's first match on June 12 against Bosnia and Herzegovina in Toronto, tickets priced at $2,240 remained, after costing $2,170 in December.</b> FIFA did not announce which matches and price categories were released for sale at all, so fans had to explore the official ticketing platform themselves, which often required hours of waiting to enter. Some users who clicked on what FIFA called the "last-minute" sales phase, when sales began at 11 a.m. Eastern Time, ended up in the queue for the "PMA late qualifier supporters sales phase," intended for supporters of the six national teams that secured qualification on Tuesday. FIFA had no explanation for why redirection to the wrong link occurred but announced around noon that the links were now working correctly. FIFA also stated that all remaining tickets for the 104 matches to be played in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada from June 11 to July 19 would not be released for sale immediately, but additional tickets would be announced gradually. This was the fifth ticket sales phase, following the Visa presale draw from September 10-19, the early phase draw from October 27-31, the random selection from December 11 to January 13, and an unplanned 48-hour sale at the end of February. FIFA announced that this phase, which will remain open throughout the tournament, is also the first where a specific seat can be purchased, rather than just applying for a ticket in a certain category. During the one-month sales phase after the December 5 draw, tickets ranged from $140 to $8,680. Following complaints, FIFA promised that each participating national federation would receive a contingent of tickets at $60 for their most loyal supporters, most likely between 400 and 700 tickets per match. "The implementation of dynamic pricing for the 2026 World Cup tickets stands in stark contrast to FIFA's fundamental goal of promoting accessible and inclusive football development worldwide," stated a letter from 69 Democratic Party members in the U.S. Congress dated March 10 addressed to FIFA President Gianni Infantino. "Despite the cooperation of host cities to realize the vision of the largest and most global World Cup in history, the consequences of dynamic pricing will make the 2026 World Cup the most financially exclusive and least accessible to date." FIFA also has its own resale market, where it charges a 15% commission from both the buyer and the seller. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Congo, the Czech Republic, Iraq, Sweden, and Turkey secured their World Cup spots after the playoffs. Supporters of national teams eliminated on Tuesday, including Italy, Poland, Denmark, Jamaica, and Bolivia, could attempt to resell already purchased tickets. Infantino claimed in January that the number of ticket requests FIFA received was equivalent to "requests for 1,000 years of World Cups at once." "This is unique. It's incredible," he said. It remains unclear how many of those requests were for tickets in the lowest price categories. Fan groups have expressed concern over the sharp price increases in the resale ticket market, with one filing an official complaint with the European Commission last month. Infantino defended FIFA's resale commission, stating that the football governing body engages in legal commercial activity in accordance with U.S. laws. In some European countries, there are laws restricting resale, requiring tickets to be sold at face value or exclusively through authorized event organizer partners.