287 Days to Go!

Still No Major Information on Phase One Ticket Sales

• All we know about Phase One for the World Cup ticket sales for 2026 is that the application window will be open on September 10 and will end on September 19, and that FIFA will notify us if our application was accepted NO EARLIER than September 30 (link to information here). That’s it. We don’t know prices. We don’t know which games will be made available. We don’t know how FIFA will be selling these tickets in October. It’s pretty crazy that we are 13 days away from September 10 and we don’t know any of this information.

2026 World Cup News

• Good news on Kansas City and NY/NJ funding transit plans for World Cup fans…

• But horrible public transit news coming from Philadelphia…

• And Houston wants to expand a highway for the World Cup…of course they do…

• Update to modifications being made to Arrowhead Stadium…

• One base camp in Vancouver has been rejected…

• Houston is looking to cool down the Downtown area for fans…

Money and Travel News

• You can’t book any rooms at this one Seattle hotel because someone already bought the rooms…

• The host cities are really hoping for the sports toursim to come through, even in the midsts of Trump’s tourism policies…

• Like the “Visa Integrity Fee” that will cost the US economy BILLIONS of dollars…

• Pierce County Transit (covering Tacoma, WA) will improve public transit to serve the hundreds of thousands of fans expected to overflow south of Seattle…

• Governor Murphy looking to expand public transit in South Jersey, with impact towards Philadelphia matches to be seen…

• Speaking of the SEPTA transit cuts…here’s a map of the affecetd routes…luckily no cuts to the line towards Lincoln Financial Field…

• A Marriott Hotel was helping ICE in their kidnappings in Louisiana…