The LA28 Ticket Draw Is Over. Six Million Tickets Sold, and the Next Chance Is 2027.
Registration opened on 14 January 2026 and closed for the last time on 22 July. Across two drops, LA28 sold more than six million tickets and says the vast majority of available inventory is gone. Local buyers took roughly three-quarters of the first drop. What arrives in 2027 is a different system: first come, first served, no lottery, and the first Paralympic sale.
Registration for the LA28 ticket draw opened on 14 January 2026 and is now closed. It closed on 18 March for the first drop and again on 22 July for the second, and there is nothing to register for today. Across the two drops the organising committee sold more than six million tickets and said the vast majority of available inventory had gone.
That is the short version, and it is worth stating plainly, because the process ran for seven months and the rules are about to change.
A record, on the organisers' own terms
The first drop closed with more than four million tickets sold to buyers in 85 countries and all fifty states, which LA28 called the most successful Olympic ticket launch on record. The claim is the committee's own and the comparison is a loose one, since ticketing systems differ from Games to Games. The raw volume is not in dispute.
How the draw worked
Registration never sold anyone a ticket. It entered you into a random assignment of purchase windows, and if you were selected you received an email naming the slot during which you could buy. Time slots for the first drop went out between 31 March and 7 April, and the purchase windows ran from 9 to 19 April. The second drop followed the same shape: notifications on 6 and 7 August, windows from 10 to 20 August.
Registration was free, required no payment, and was open to anyone eighteen or older at the time of entry.
Locals went first, and it mattered
Before the general drop, residents of the greater Los Angeles area and the Oklahoma City region had their own window, from 2 to 6 April, gated by billing postal code. It was not a token gesture. Local buyers took roughly three-quarters of the four million tickets in the first drop, and about 95 percent of everything priced under $100.
That is the most consequential number in the whole process. The cheapest seats were substantially spoken for before the rest of the world got a purchase window.
The $28 ticket was real, and it was not the whole picture
LA28 promised a $28 entry price and held to it. Around 500,000 tickets at that price sold in the first drop. Roughly half of all tickets went for under $200, and more than three-quarters under $400.
The other end of the range drew the complaints. Premium seats and ceremony tickets ran past $5,000, about five percent of inventory cleared $1,000, and pricing became a public argument through the spring and summer. Both things are true at once. The floor was genuinely low and the ceiling was genuinely high, and which one you met depended on when your window opened and what you wanted to watch.
Oklahoma City is a host city, not an overflow lot
Two sports are leaving California altogether. Oklahoma City hosts softball at Devon Park, a venue of roughly 13,000 seats, and canoe slalom at the Riversport whitewater centre. Not a share of those events, all of them. Oklahoma City University serves as the satellite athletes' village.
What is available now
For general admission, nothing. The second drop was the final public sale of 2026.
The next opportunity comes in early 2027, and the mechanism changes with it. LA28 is retiring the draw. Sales will be first come, first served with no registration step, and the twelve-ticket purchase cap is being removed. The first Paralympic ticket drop also lands in 2027, alongside a verified resale network.
The one thing you can buy today is hospitality. On Location sells ticket-inclusive packages at hospitality.la28.org on a first-come basis, with refundable deposits starting at $500. The range widened through 2026 to cover athletics, beach volleyball, golf, equestrian and diving.
The dates
The Olympic Games run from 14 to 30 July 2028. The Paralympic Games follow from 15 to 27 August 2028. Neither has moved.
