This 2026 World Cup Tickets update runs through today, April 29, 2026, using our own internal ticket-tracking data. For the week of April 27, after a big fall off in prices last week has seen prices settle a bit. It appears that people are trying to keep their prices higher for a bit longer, before we think the prices will really start to fall as we get closer to the matches. Across 39 matches with direct week-over-week comparison, 13 are up, 8 are down, and 18 are flat versus the prior week close.
The bigger takeaway is that the market is still splitting in two. The group stage remains much weaker than it was when we started tracking in early March, but the combined knockout-stage market has held up far better. This isn't that surprising. There is a lot of mystery in who will be playing the knockout-stage matches. And prices won't adjust a lot there until we know about who is playing who and where. But when that happens as we make it through the group stage, prices will likely have massive swings depending on the matchups.
Visible Inventory Is Even Stronger This Week
The supply side of the market is still one of the biggest changes from earlier in the cycle. In our latest reliable hourly snapshot, we are now tracking 5,744 visible listings across the live event set. That is up from 5,505 at the start of this weekly window, and the market reached a current-week peak of 5,822 listings earlier this week. So we are seeing more choices hit the market for people.
Combined Group Stage Get-In: Day by Day
The group-stage chart is still the clearest way to see how much this part of the market has changed. Prices started March much higher, fell sharply through late March and early April, and have never fully recovered. Even with the current week stabilizing a bit, the group-stage average is still far below where it started. And has really only stayed stable for a few days. We expect it to fall more.
Daily Group Stage Get-In Trend
Combined Knockout Stages Average Price: Day by Day
The knockout-stage chart tells a very different story. Using matches 73 through 104, this market sold off after early March as well, but it recovered much more effectively and has held together far better than the group stage. Right now, knockout-stage pricing is much closer to its starting point than the group-stage market is. And an average Knockout Stage get-in ticket is 66% higher than the average group stage ticket. We expect this difference in ticket price to grow over the next two weeks.
Daily Knockout Stages Average Price Trend
The 5 Cheapest Current Get-In Matches
If readers are shopping for the lowest current entry points in the market, these are the five cheapest get-ins in the latest reliable April 29 snapshot. This is still one of the clearest pockets of value on the site. These matches are some of the lowest that we have seen so far.
| Match | Current Get-In | Visible Listings |
|---|---|---|
| Match 65 (Cabo Verde vs Saudi Arabia) | $261.05 | 526 |
| Match 44 (Jordan vs Algeria) | $287.50 | 421 |
| Match 20 (Austria vs Jordan) | $293.25 | 429 |
| Match 55 (Curacao vs Cote d'Ivoire) | $294.40 | 337 |
| Match 72 (TBD vs Uzbekistan) | $309.35 | 227 |
Biggest Movers Up Through Today
The raw biggest up moves this week came on a couple of very thin listings, so the cleaner read is in the matches that moved up with usable visible supply behind them. The strongest cleaner risers this week were Match 31, Match 9, Match 81, Match 42, and then a cluster of lower-priced matches that were only modestly higher.
| Match | Current Get-In | Prior Week Close | WTD $ Change | WTD % Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match 31 (Paraguay vs TBD) | $833.75 | $776.25 | +$57.50 | +7.41% |
| Match 9 (Cote d'Ivoire vs Ecuador) | $862.50 | $823.38 | +$39.12 | +4.75% |
| Match 81 (1D vs 3B/E/F/I/J) | $1,092.50 | $1,059.15 | +$33.35 | +3.15% |
| Match 42 (France vs TBD) | $791.20 | $770.50 | +$20.70 | +2.69% |
| Match 25 (South Africa vs TBD) | $311.65 | $307.05 | +$4.60 | +1.50% |
| Match 50 (Morocco vs Haiti) | $387.55 | $382.95 | +$4.60 | +1.20% |
Biggest Pullbacks This Week
The downside list is shorter and a lot less dramatic than the soft week we saw in the previous update. Among matches with usable visible supply, the clearest pullbacks this week came in Match 23, Match 16, Match 8, Match 26, and Match 72.
| Match | Current Get-In | Prior Week Close | WTD $ Change | WTD % Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match 23 (Portugal vs TBD) | $1,081.00 | $1,123.55 | -$42.55 | -3.79% |
| Match 16 (Belgium vs Egypt) | $747.50 | $770.50 | -$23.00 | -2.99% |
| Match 8 (Qatar vs Switzerland) | $540.50 | $550.85 | -$10.35 | -1.88% |
| Match 26 (Switzerland vs TBD) | $795.80 | $800.40 | -$4.60 | -0.57% |
| Match 72 (TBD vs Uzbekistan) | $309.35 | $313.95 | -$4.60 | -1.47% |
| Match 4 (USMNT vs Paraguay) | $1,495.00 | $1,498.45 | -$3.45 | -0.23% |