Allocation

[GHfaeGTA]

17 hours ago, Texas Pete said:

If it’s 12% for group matches that should be more than enough for any SSC member who wants one, particularly for the bigger stadiums. 

At present around half of our group are planning on going and half say they won’t due to the cost (we all went to Germany). If that’s replicated across the SSC there should be plenty of tickets available. 

About 16 of us (from Guernsey) went to Germany but so far I haven’t heard one of them expressing interest to go next year. Saying that, although many were SSC members, none actually got tickets via the SSC (got from 3rd parties) but it does show that the numbers travelling will be nothing like Germany. 

[hobbes]

First, congratulations to you all. I follow Scotland after Canada and I was over the moon on Tuesday - I can only imagine how you felt.

Second, re: tickets. FIFA has been really poor in communicating with the federations. Even as a host nation, details about allocation, price, when they might be available for sale, all have been difficult to get from FIFA. But hopefully everyone who wants to go will be able to purchase through the SFA allocation. 

I was very fortunate and got into the second VISA window and was able to get a Canada TST3 which gets me the first round (and I managed one round of 32 match so far). In the week between the first round of VISA purchases and when I could get in, the tickets went up 13-15%. They've gone up significantly more now during the recent host country purchase draw and then the international ticket draw. This is all because of FIFA's dynamic pricing. They claim it's not really dynamic pricing, but it's been going up over the course of a day (a friend paid $10 more in the afternoon for a ticket than I paid in the morning).  If I were successful through the Canada Soccer allocation (which I might be, but we don't even know when that might happen), those tickets would probably be cheaper than what I have already purchased. Canada Soccer is holding the line on what they are charging supporters, which is the original ticket price. I would hope/expect the SFA will do the same. So anyone who can't get tickets through the SFA could be looking at paying at least 25% more even if they can find some through FIFA. 

I do think Scotland will be an extremely popular ticket, which means you will be well-supported which is a positive, but won't help those looking for tickets.

I am expecting this to cost as much or more as my 16-day stay in Qatar.... and I live in the host country. 

[Rich NATA]

2 hours ago, GHfaeGTA said:

Havnt done much research yet. Which are the ‘smaller’ grounds and what is their capacity? And the ones with larger capacities are? 

Venue stats and photos shown here... 

2026 FIFA World Cup - Wikipedia

[Clyde1998]

2 hours ago, hobbes said:

First, congratulations to you all. I follow Scotland after Canada and I was over the moon on Tuesday - I can only imagine how you felt.

Second, re: tickets. FIFA has been really poor in communicating with the federations. Even as a host nation, details about allocation, price, when they might be available for sale, all have been difficult to get from FIFA. But hopefully everyone who wants to go will be able to purchase through the SFA allocation. 

I was very fortunate and got into the second VISA window and was able to get a Canada TST3 which gets me the first round (and I managed one round of 32 match so far). In the week between the first round of VISA purchases and when I could get in, the tickets went up 13-15%. They've gone up significantly more now during the recent host country purchase draw and then the international ticket draw. This is all because of FIFA's dynamic pricing. They claim it's not really dynamic pricing, but it's been going up over the course of a day (a friend paid $10 more in the afternoon for a ticket than I paid in the morning).  If I were successful through the Canada Soccer allocation (which I might be, but we don't even know when that might happen), those tickets would probably be cheaper than what I have already purchased. Canada Soccer is holding the line on what they are charging supporters, which is the original ticket price. I would hope/expect the SFA will do the same. So anyone who can't get tickets through the SFA could be looking at paying at least 25% more even if they can find some through FIFA. 

I do think Scotland will be an extremely popular ticket, which means you will be well-supported which is a positive, but won't help those looking for tickets.

I am expecting this to cost as much or more as my 16-day stay in Qatar.... and I live in the host country. 

The costs will be extraordinary. A lot of our fans will justify it through our 28-year absence from the competition.

Having a quick look at the prices for games (and we don't know who's playing who or where yet) and almost all are north of $400 for a single match (in what's in practice the lowest ticketing category); I found some for about $300 in Kansas City and Atlanta.

That's without considering flights; hotels; food; drink; etc. for the costs.

[bdgsct]

Something doesnt add up for me around the pricing. If we are talking average $300-400 per game and we struggle to take 10k supporters to a 60,000 stadium for a game versus Morrocco (and they do the same), are 40k locals (never mind those travelling from nearby) really happy to pay that price (or much higher) for a random match like that in their home city? I recall people struggling to sell tix for reduced capacity games at Hampden during covid (croatia v czech and sweden v ukraine) at prices of £60-£80 and we are a football mad nation. I'll make a bold call and say our games v Pot 2 and 4 will not be sold out and tickets will be available nearer the time for far less than tix via SSC. With the travel and expense involved, there will be a tiny market for tickets nearer the kick off which will push prices down. 

[Northern Light]

12 minutes ago, bdgsct said:

Something doesnt add up for me around the pricing. If we are talking average $300-400 per game and we struggle to take 10k supporters to a 60,000 stadium for a game versus Morrocco (and they do the same), are 40k locals (never mind those travelling from nearby) really happy to pay that price (or much higher) for a random match like that in their home city? I recall people struggling to sell tix for reduced capacity games at Hampden during covid (croatia v czech and sweden v ukraine) at prices of £60-£80 and we are a football mad nation. I'll make a bold call and say our games v Pot 2 and 4 will not be sold out and tickets will be available nearer the time for far less than tix via SSC. With the travel and expense involved, there will be a tiny market for tickets nearer the kick off which will push prices down. 

I think part of what you are missing is that there were apparently one million tickets sold in each of the two visa pre-sale, which in broad numbers is the equivalent of 20,000 per game. You then have maybe 10,000 tickets per game that disappear to sponsors and other hangers-on. At the moment other than the three hosts games everyone who has bought tickets or been given sponsor tickets (that isn't the three game package for a particular country) has just got a random chance of which game they will get to see. Some will have won a watch when they find out they have an Argentina game with Messi and co, some will have buyer regret when they find out they have got Cape Verde v Curacao. What I would imagine is that there will be a deluge of tickets dumped back into the resale portal when the allocation of games is known and when the portal opens. At that point we probably want to hope for a couple of very dull games against pot 2 and pot 4 teams, that won't bring many fans and then those that don't get via SSC should be in with a good chance of picking up resale tickets.

[bdgsct]

23 minutes ago, Northern Light said:

I think part of what you are missing is that there were apparently one million tickets sold in each of the two visa pre-sale, which in broad numbers is the equivalent of 20,000 per game. You then have maybe 10,000 tickets per game that disappear to sponsors and other hangers-on. At the moment other than the three hosts games everyone who has bought tickets or been given sponsor tickets (that isn't the three game package for a particular country) has just got a random chance of which game they will get to see. Some will have won a watch when they find out they have an Argentina game with Messi and co, some will have buyer regret when they find out they have got Cape Verde v Curacao. What I would imagine is that there will be a deluge of tickets dumped back into the resale portal when the allocation of games is known and when the portal opens. At that point we probably want to hope for a couple of very dull games against pot 2 and pot 4 teams, that won't bring many fans and then those that don't get via SSC should be in with a good chance of picking up resale tickets.

We are saying the same thing. FIFA know that dynamic pricing will lead to a true market value of £100-£200 a ticket (or less) in most cases. They are selling at £300-£400 at the outset to take advantage of 1. People wanting to plan in advance and 2. In case some big ties drawn lead to high demand, thereby selling out at £400 and taking the income touts would have received. I think like the club world cup, we'll see tickets going for £40 on game day, including ours. I can't possibly see our ticket prices rising after all tickets released (except maybe our Pot 1 game).

[thesaint]

2 hours ago, Clyde1998 said:

The costs will be extraordinary. A lot of our fans will justify it through our 28-year absence from the competition.

Having a quick look at the prices for games (and we don't know who's playing who or where yet) and almost all are north of $400 for a single match (in what's in practice the lowest ticketing category); I found some for about $300 in Kansas City and Atlanta.

That's without considering flights; hotels; food; drink; etc. for the costs.

The cost of going for even one game and a few days could possibly be about £1500.Totally stupid money.

[Texas Pete]

8 hours ago, GHfaeGTA said:

Havnt done much research yet. Which are the ‘smaller’ grounds and what is their capacity? And the ones with larger capacities are? 

I can’t really remember the exact details but the vast majority of them are around 60,000 or higher. There’s one around 45,000 and a couple around the 90,000 mark. 

[PSJ84]

Mexico City - 87,523

New York - 82,500

Dallas - 80,000

Kansas - 76,416

Houston - 72,220

Atlanta - 71,000

Los Angeles - 70,240

Seattle - 68,740

San Francisco - 68,500

Philadelphia - 67,594

Miami - 64,767

Boston - 64,628

Vancouver - 54,500

Monterrey - 53,500

Guadalajara - 49,813

Toronto - 45,763

 

Had totally passed me by just how big some of them actually are.

 

 

[allan84]

My cat 3 tickets cost $225 per match! 

As previosly mentioned in other threads, the small print says that if we get a host team in an opener, there will be an extra charge which will take the cost to over $1,000.

[thesaint]

27 minutes ago, allan84 said:

My cat 3 tickets cost $225 per match! 

As previosly mentioned in other threads, the small print says that if we get a host team in an opener, there will be an extra charge which will take the cost to over $1,000.

Obscene.You will be hoping we avoid one of the hosts at all costs.Fingers crossed.😁

[bdgsct]

21 minutes ago, thesaint said:

Obscene.You will be hoping we avoid one of the hosts at all costs.Fingers crossed.😁

From a football perspective that's exactly what we want! If we get Argentina or Brazil, the consolation is a cheaper ticket and no south American team from pot 2.

[Craig Fae Hamilton]

I hope to get a ticket through the Travel Club. I am on MAX Home Points and that is it. Missed getting an Away Ticket for Cyprus and that cost me Tickets for the Euros and it meant not getting an STC Ticket for Denmark. But I am still hopeful. Using life savings to go as it's a life long dream to see Scotland in a World Cup Finals. I'm in early 50's so I might not be alive for the next Finals at our current strike rate!

Word of warning, FIFA are cashing in on the Scalping Market. You can re-sale tickets on the FIFA Website for AS MUCH AS YOU WANT. Fifa take 15% of the Sale Price from the Seller AND Buyer. Cat 4 Tickets that were sold for $60-$70 are now being sold for $600-$1500 on the Official FIFA Re-sale site. So no STC ticket and you are struggling.

I was lucky to get to buy some official FIFA Tickets in the draw. Got 12 Tickets for face value spread across 5 games in Miami. My plan is to use these to swap for/finance buying Scotland Tickets. Without these, i'd be shitting it for the STC Ticket Lottery.

GOOD LUCK Troops!

 

Also, we don't want to end up in that Mexico Group. Flights for everywhere else look to be around £6-700 Return. Match Cities in Mexico look to be £600 ONE WAY!

[Caledonian Craig]

19 minutes ago, Craig Fae Hamilton said:

Also, we don't want to end up in that Mexico Group. Flights for everywhere else look to be around £6-700 Return. Match Cities in Mexico look to be £600 ONE WAY!

Agreed. Also trickier for Visa and then you have altitude issues for our players to contend with too and cross-border trips making it far more complicated. I'd sooner avoid all that.

[Hamish Inverness]

On 11/20/2025 at 7:09 AM, sultan_of_arabia said:

I'm on 12 so likely to get tickets although unlikely fans first ones so hopefully they won't be just category 1 left. 

First issue for me is potentially affording the ticket in December. Do we think the association ones will go on sale a week or 2 after the draw. From my memory that was the case for the euros but it's also not an ideal time for a lot of fans to be shelling out.

aye mate I'm praying tickets will go one sale after xmas 

[Redz]

Possibly the wrong thread

Cancun all inclusive @ £1200 for a week

Internal flights to the 3 venues c.£200 rtn

If it's Mexico, of course....

[Bristolhibby]

14 hours ago, PSJ84 said:

Mexico City - 87,523

New York - 82,500

Dallas - 80,000

Kansas - 76,416

Houston - 72,220

Atlanta - 71,000

Los Angeles - 70,240

Seattle - 68,740

San Francisco - 68,500

Philadelphia - 67,594

Miami - 64,767

Boston - 64,628

Vancouver - 54,500

Monterrey - 53,500

Guadalajara - 49,813

Toronto - 45,763

 

Had totally passed me by just how big some of them actually are.

 

 

I was over in Texas the other week with work and went to a Texas Longhorns game in Austin. It was a 103k crowd. Realised during the game that it was the biggest crowd I’ve ever been in. And that was just a 1000 KO regular season game. 
 

Colossal sized stadium.

J 

[Bristolhibby]

Looks like the 8% allocation includes hangers on, blazers and family of the players. Cat 4 not available.

This just gets worse and worse!

J

[bdgsct]

3 hours ago, Bristolhibby said:

Looks like the 8% allocation includes hangers on, blazers and family of the players. Cat 4 not available.

This just gets worse and worse!

J

Has that been confirmed? Cat 3 $140-215. Cat 2 more likely $310-$465

[Toepoke]

23 minutes ago, bdgsct said:

Has that been confirmed? Cat 3 $140-215. Cat 2 more likely $310-$465

I've seen details from the Dutch FA, only category 1-3 for them. 8% of capacity to the association. They are giving 70% of that total to their supporters club.

 

 

[Gianluca_Festa]

 

12 minutes ago, Toepoke said:

I've seen details from the Dutch FA, only category 1-3 for them. 8% of capacity to the association. They are giving 70% of that total to their supporters club.

 

 

That’s not ideal. You’d think the associations (and supporters) would get the chance at more tickets!

[Toepoke]

13 minutes ago, Gianluca_Festa said:

 

That’s not ideal. You’d think the associations (and supporters) would get the chance at more tickets!

Aye, maximum allocation (for Dutch fans) would be 4900 at the Azteca, down to 2500 in Toronto.

 

[bdgsct]

28 minutes ago, Gianluca_Festa said:

 

That’s not ideal. You’d think the associations (and supporters) would get the chance at more tickets!

And at least some chance of access to the cheaper tickets like the euros.

[Toepoke]

2 hours ago, bdgsct said:

And at least some chance of access to the cheaper tickets like the euros.

I think there's only about a dozen cheap tickets per venue, pretty much a box ticking exercise.