FIFA “appeared to have technical difficulties” when it resumed 2026 World Cup ticket sales Wednesday after the 48-team field was finalized. FIFA did not say which games and price categories were available. Some people who “clicked on what FIFA called its ‘last-minute sales phase’ when sales opened” at 11am ET were “directed into a queue for ‘PMA late qualifier supporters sales phase,’ aimed for a segment of fans for the six nations who earned berths on Tuesday.” FIFA appeared to have “lengthy waits to purchase tickets,” with people who “joined the queue at the start still waiting to get through the queue 90 minutes later.” The governing body did not have an explanation for why the link misdirection occurred but said that “around noon” the links were “working properly” (AP, 4/1).
FIFA faces technical issues as World Cup ticket sales resume
