On Monday, LA28 announced the next step in its ticketing plan for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with ticket registration opening on 14 January.
Fans will be able to start registering for tickets on January 14 on the website la28.organd registration will be open until March 18th. Everyone who registers will be entered into a random drawing to receive time to purchase tickets. Fans will enter their zip codes when registering, and those living in the Los Angeles and Oklahoma City areas near the venues will have access to the first time slots reserved for local residents.
“The goal is to make sure we get tickets into the hands of not only fans, but local fans as well,” said Allison Katz-Mayfield, LA28's senior vice president of Games delivery revenue. “Those who will be closest to the Games will, in a sense, really help us deliver these Games.”
The 2028 Olympics will feature the largest Games schedule in history, with 36 sports and 11,198 athletes competing. Most of the Games will be held in Los Angeles, including the main downtown sports areas, Exposition Park and the Sepulveda Pool, but there will also be several venues in cities such as Carson, Inglewood and Long Beach. Oklahoma City will host softball and canoe slalom events at existing facilities.
LA28 is still finalizing the length of each shopping window, although the plan is to have multiple opportunities per day, so fans will be assigned time slots open for several hours. Tickets for a variety of events will be available during each 2026 edition, with single-event tickets starting at $28. When Paralympic tickets go on sale in 2027, the system will be similar and fans will not have to re-register their interest.
While the Olympics will return to Los Angeles for the third time in 2028, this will be the first time the city will host the Paralympics.
LA28 plans to issue 14 million tickets for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The total would be a Games record, surpassing the 12 million tickets sold in Paris, where ticket sales began almost a year behind the schedule LA28 is currently using. Ticket registration for the Paris Games, which opens in July 2024, did not begin until November 2022, 20 months before the event.
Fans will have two and a half years to register and purchase tickets before the Olympic Games open in Los Angeles on July 14, 2028.
