re: Best way to get World Cup tickets?

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Yes, you can request to be seated together using the “Sit Together” functionality in your FIFA ticketing account, either during the ticket purchasing step of the Random Selection Draw or afterward by accessing your FIFA ticketing account. As communicated at the time of purchase, seating assignments for tickets successfully purchased during the Random Selection Draw will be made at a later stage. Please note the following: 

FIFA Ticketing attempts, but does not guarantee, to seat together multiple tickets for a match that you purchase within a single transaction that are in the same ticket category in your ticketing account at the time of seat assignment. For specific details, please refer to Clause 3.3 of the Ticket Terms of Sale for General Public. 

A pre-condition for being seated together is that all ticket applications must be for the same matches, ticket products and categories.

The “Sit Together” functionality is only applicable when you are requesting to sit with individuals who have made different transactions.

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3. Ticket Categories

3.1. Tickets are assigned to and sold in different price categories (“Ticket Category”). Each Ticket Category is determined based on the location and other characteristics of the seats and sections in the official stadium assigned to that Ticket Category for the relevant Match (“Stadium”). Seats are assigned within each Stadium to a Ticket Category on a Match-by- Match basis. The number of seats allocated to each Ticket Category and the boundaries of each Ticket Category within a Stadium may change from Match to Match and are determined by FIFA Ticketing at its sole discretion.

3.2. A particular Ticket Category may comprise seats in different tiers of a Stadium (such as lower and upper tiers). Seats within a Ticket Category may also be located adjacent to seats of another Ticket Category. Any visual representations of Ticket Categories on the Ticketing Website, such as Stadium maps and illustrations, are for guidance purposes only and may not reflect the actual layout and boundaries of a particular Stadium. FIFA Ticketing reserves the right to assign you a seat within an alternative Ticket Category that is comparable to or better than the initial Ticket Category, in our sole and reasonable discretion.

3.3. FIFA Ticketing shall assign each Ticket within a Ticket Category to a specific seat in the Stadium. Seat assignment may be made at a time determined by FIFA Ticketing, including prior to or after a Ticket purchase. FIFA Ticketing attempts, but does not guarantee, to seat together multiple Tickets for a Match that you purchase within a single transaction that are in the same Ticket Category in your Ticketing Account (as defined below) at the time of seat assignment. However, your assigned seats may not be adjacent or near one another and seats assigned within the same Ticket Category may be located in different rows, sections or locations in the Stadium. For some Stadiums and Matches, you may have the opportunity to request to be seated near Tickets purchased under a different Ticketing Account if all Tickets are within the same Ticket Category for a Match. This option may be made available by FIFA Ticketing at certain times prior to the Competition. If this option is made available to you in your Ticketing Account we will request information to identify the other Ticketing Account and relevant Tickets in order to review the request. FIFA Ticketing does not guarantee that it can fulfil your request.

3.4. The seat FIFA Ticketing assigns to your Ticket(s) may be relocated in FIFA Ticketing’s sole discretion at any time, and no such relocation shall entitle you to a refund or any other remedy from FIFA Ticketing provided that your seat is relocated to either (i) an area of the Stadium allocated to the same or better Ticket Category, or if not applicable, (ii) a seat of comparable or better value.

3.5. FIFA Ticketing may offer a sales phase(s) prior to the start of the Competition and during the Competition during which sale phase(s) available Tickets are sold by seat number and not Ticket Category. You should review the seat selections carefully prior to purchase, as adjacent, consecutive available seats may not be available and, once purchased, cannot be changed by you

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Anyone that is going to Atlanta know a good strategy for matchday parking, etc.?

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FIFA has faced fierce criticism, especially in Europe, for its World Cup ticket pricing strategy that includes so-called "dynamic pricing" and acting as its own resale platform.

The third phase of ticket sales began last Friday, with fans able to request tickets for specific matchups for the first time following the Dec. 5 tournament draw.

A list published by the German Football Association revealed prices ranged from $180 to $700 for varying group stage games. The English Football Association shared pricing information with the England Supporters Travel Club (ESTC), which showed that if a fan bought a ticket for every game through to the final it would cost just over $7,000.

Fan organization Football Supporters Europe (FSE) described the prices as "extortionate" and called on FIFA to immediately halt ticket sales via national associations "until a solution that respects the tradition, universality, and cultural significance of the World Cup is found."

FIFA said Tuesday it had received more than 20 million ticket requests during what it calls the "random selection draw" phase.

The third phase of sales runs through Jan. 13, 2026, with successful applicants set be notified by email in February and charged automatically.

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