FIFA World Cup 2026

[Tapioca]

Since we're co-hosting and the draw is coming up this Friday, I figured I would start a dedicated thread. Here's a photo of the pots:



Every group will have 1 team from each pot, but the co-hosts can't be in a group with another North America/Caribbean team, so we can't have Haiti, Jamaica, Curacao, or Suriname in our group, for example. There is a high chance that we will have two European teams in our group and a possibility that we could play Italy in our first game in Toronto (Italy would be a Pot 4 team). Our games at BC Place would be against one of the Pot 3 and Pot 2 teams.

Who are you cheering for? Any surprises in terms of the qualifying so far?

Did anyone get any tickets during the first two phases of ticket sales?

[Traum]

I will obviously be cheering on our boys in the CanMNT~ After that, it'd be the 3 Lions (England), which despite the horrible coaching from Tuchel, is somehow still ranked as the 4th strongest team in the FIFA rankings. And bcos of that, it gets an easier draw that avoids the other 3 top 4 teams.

The whole ticket sales thing is a scam. If you don't plan on shelling out big $$$ to secure your tickets, there is basically zero chance of you just winning the random draw. As expected, I did not win the ticket draw in the first 2 rounds.

FWIW, I have also applied to volunteer in the games. According to the volunteer selection timeline, interviews for the volunteering positions should already have started in Nov, and I have read online that Toronto has already started the process. I haven't heard of anything happening in Vancouver yet, and I have obviously not been contacted for interviews either.

[Mikoyan]

Co worker won a ticket allocation through RBC. Tickets are non transferable per TOS she said.