Canadians with deep pockets get first crack at 2026 World Cup deluxe ticket packages

Neil Davidson · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jul 14, 2025 11:15 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Tickets to the 2026 World Cup are present disposable for Canadians, though lone for those consenting to wage a premium.

The archetypal question of tickets comes successful deluxe packages, provided by On Location, FIFA's authoritative tourney hospitality partner. They scope from $2,500 for a single-game bundle to the sky's the limit.

Canadians volition person 2 different ways to get lucifer tickets, without the frills.

Canada Soccer is expected to unveil its revamped Canada Red programme astatine the extremity of July, with antithetic rank levels offering entree to a lottery for Canadian crippled tickets.

The much costly the membership, the amended the likelihood of getting a ticket.

FIFA says its ticketing program, which has taken the signifier of a worldwide lottery successful the past, volition motorboat successful the fall.

On Location is consenting to marque your sporting imagination travel true, astatine a price.

Leah Linke, elder vice-president of lawsuit accumulation for On Location, recalls a Super Bowl bundle for a well-heeled lawsuit who requested brunch with erstwhile prima backmost Tom Brady successful a two-level backstage suite with the Vince Lombardi Trophy.

"I can't divulge however overmuch they paid," she said.

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Starting Monday successful Canada and Mexico, On Location offers a assortment of World Cup packages, with the prime of seats and hospitality work improving arsenic the terms rises.

"We are not selling tickets. We are selling experiences of a lifetime," said Linke.

"We each cognize you spell done life, you cod each these materialistic things," she added. "But erstwhile it's each said and done, what we each extremity up with are memories. Memories of our families, memories with our friends. And that is what our extremity is—- to make memories, once-in-a-lifetime memories."

Options aplenty

On Location offers single-match and venue bid packages for each games. You tin besides curate your ain bundle oregon travel your squad successful the aboriginal rounds (although not for co-hosts Canada, Mexico and the U.S.).

Different packages connection entree to a assortment of backstage lounges, ranging from $2,500 per idiosyncratic for single-match entree to the alleged FIFA Pavilion (outside the stadium) to $5,350 for the in-stadium Pitchside Lounge, with respective different options successful between.

Each bundle offers a summons and entree to the lounge 3 hours earlier kickoff, during halftime, and 2 hours aft the last whistle.

"All you tin eat, each you tin drink," said Linke.

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The higher the price, the amended the seat, easier entree to stadium and lounge, the much premium food, portion and amusement and the amended the acquisition that comes with the package.

Private suites are besides available, though On Location did not supply pricing.

If wealth is nary concern, On Location offers the "Platinum Access Program."

'Sky truly is the limit'

Flights oregon chopper needed? No problem. Looking to instrumentality the transportation aft the crippled to instrumentality a punishment against a prima goalkeeper? They tin marque it happen.

"This genuinely is the creme de la crème. The entity truly is the limit," said Linke.

Linke boasts that On Location is partnering with Michelin-star and James Beard Award-winning chefs, positive a consortium of "guest acquisition experts" and a "team of mixologists."

She expects On Location to work much than a cardinal fans crossed the tournament's 104 games astatine 16 antithetic venues.

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The expanded 48-team contention features 13 games each successful Canada and Mexico and the remaining 78 successful the U.S.

The 28th-ranked Canadian men volition unfastened June 12 astatine Toronto's BMO Field earlier shifting to Vancouver for its remaining radical games June 18 and 24 astatine B.C. Place Stadium. Should Canada triumph its group, it would enactment successful Vancouver for the Round-of-32 crippled and, if it wins that, enactment enactment for the Round of 16 contest.

On Location was primitively spawned by the NFL, looking to instrumentality vantage of the secondary market. It was yet purchased and expanded by Endeavor Group Holdings, formerly William Morris Endeavor and WME-IMG, successful January 2020 for a reported $660 cardinal US.

Linke says On Location provides hospitality to immoderate 36,000 connected Super Bowl Sunday. It was besides the authoritative hospitality spouse for the Paris Olympics. It volition repetition the relation astatine the 2026 Winter Games successful Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, and 2028 Summer Games successful Los Angeles.

It besides provides hospitality packages from everything from Major League Baseball and NASCAR to the UFC and WWE.

On Location has already started selling tourney packages southbound of the border.

"And I've got to archer you, they are already flying disconnected the shelf," said Linke.