The FIFA World Cup\u2019s 48-team field is now complete, and California will be a major destination when the tournament kicks off.<\/p>\n
Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa Clara and SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles County will combine to host 14 matches in June and July<\/a>, including a quarterfinal.<\/p>\n Here are key takeaways:<\/p>\n \u2022 Levi\u2019s Stadium will host six matches, while SoFi Stadium gets eight \u2014 including 10 group-stage games, three round-of-32 games and one quarterfinal split between the two venues.<\/p>\n \u2022 Ticket prices for the World Cup initially ranged from $60 to $6,730<\/a>, per the Associated Press, though dynamic pricing means those numbers will fluctuate. On StubHub, the cheapest Levi\u2019s Stadium listing was around $270 for the Jordan-Algeria game, with premium seats reaching into the tens of thousands.<\/p>\n \u2022 A potential U.S. team match on July 1 at Levi\u2019s Stadium \u2014 contingent on the Americans winning their group \u2014 had StubHub tickets starting at nearly $900.<\/p>\n \u2022 FIFA had already sold 2 million tickets during earlier sale phases to fans in 212 countries and territories. The U.S., Canada and Mexico led sales.<\/p>\n \u2022 Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina claimed the final two spots in the 48-team field through European playoff qualifiers. Turkey will face Paraguay on June 19 at Levi\u2019s Stadium, while Bosnia and Herzegovina plays in the U.S. team\u2019s group at SoFi Stadium.<\/p>\n \u2022 For context on rising costs: When the U.S. hosted the World Cup in 1994, the cheapest tickets were $25 \u2014 about $57 today with inflation, per the Los Angeles Times archives.<\/p>\n This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence and using our own originally reported, written and published content. Any content produced using AI tools is reviewed by reporters and editors before publication in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n This story was originally published April 1, 2026 at 2:56 PM.<\/p>\n CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misstated the date of the match between Paraguay and Turkey.<\/p>\n Corrected Apr 1, 2026<\/p>\n Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FIFA World Cup\u2019s 48-team field is now complete, and California will be a major destination when the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[110642,110643,121,123,122,110646,110644,110645],"class_list":["post-247863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-2026-world-cup-california","tag-levis-stadium-matches","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-santa-clara-soccer","tag-sofi-stadium-world-cup","tag-world-cup-ticket-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}