World Cup 2026 ticket prices revealed including eye-watering cost of entry to final

England fans have learned how much they will need to fork out for tickets at next summer’s World Cup – and it’s not going to be a cheap trip

Fans wanting to watch next year’s World Cup final at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey will be paying up to £4,720 for a general admission ticket. Ticket prices have been a closely guarded secret by FIFA, only disclosing that the cheapest tickets would start at $60, around £44.

But a select few fans, who were the winners of the first ticket lottery, were able to see the full prices on Wednesday. The £44 tickets are only available for group stage matches and are very few in number.

Prices vary depending on whether a host nation, namely the USA, Canada and Mexico, are in action and also by location. Group stage tickets start at £44 but go all the way up to $2,735, around £2,000, for the most expensive ticket for the USA’s opener in Los Angeles.

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For games not involving a host nation, the most expensive group stage tickets come in LA, San Francisco and New Jersey. A category one ticket for those games will cost $620, around £460.

Prices remain pretty consistent in the last 32 and last 16, but start to ramp up from the quarter-final stage onwards. The cheapest tickets for the last-eight clash in LA will cost $410, just over £300, while the most expensive is $1,690, around £1,250.

The semi-finals in Dallas and Atlanta see tickets varying in cost from $420, around £310 to $2,780 (£2,060).

For the final itself, category four tickets will start at $2,030, just over £1,500. This then jumps to $2,790, around £2,070, for category three. Category two tickets are priced at $4,210, around £3,120, before the category one tickets at $6,370 (£4,720).

It means England fans travelling Stateside will be at the behest of the draw as to how much they will pay for tickets. Their location and whether they are drawn to face any host nations will have a significant impact on the cost of the trip.

The Three Lions could yet be joined by some of their fellow home nations. Northern Ireland and Scotland both sit second in their qualifying groups, while Wales are third but just a point off top spot.

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