Over 500 million ticket requests submitted as FIFA World Cup 2026™ Random Selection Draw application period concludes
Applications received from fans living in all 211 FIFA Member Associations’ countries/territories in just 33 days
Hosts United States, Mexico and Canada among top applicant countries, alongside Germany, England, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Argentina and Colombia
Fans will be notified of the outcome of their ticket applications by email no earlier than 5 February
The global excitement for the FIFA World Cup 2026™ has reached unprecedented levels, with more than half a billion ticket requests submitted during the Random Selection Draw ticket sales phase, which ran from Thursday, 11 December 2025 to Tuesday, 13 January 2026.
With each application validated by unique credit card data, fans placed an average of 15 million ticket requests per day over the 33-day application window, set...




