As hype grows globally for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, tickets prices in Canada may be dampening the mood as not a single game hosted in this country has sold out.
All 13 of the games in Canada still have tickets available on FIFA’s own ticketing platform as of Friday morning, hours before Canada is set to take on Bosnia and Herzegovina for its World Cup opener.
The opening game, at the temporarily renamed Toronto Stadium, still had 196 tickets available as of Friday morning.
Meanwhile, hundreds of tickets remain for Canada’s June 18 match against Qatar in Vancouver and a handful of tickets are available for its final group stage match against Switzerland on June 24.
Ticket prices could be the limiting factor. Costs range from $1,370 to $3,135 for Canada’s opener on Friday.
The City of Toronto bought up 3,500 World Cup packages to resell for profit to recoup some of the tax money spent on the event. Earlier this week the CBC reported that the city had sold about 450 of them.
Taxpayers are on the hook for $1.07 billion across all levels of government for the 13 games in Canada, amounting to $82 million per match, according to a May report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer.