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LA28 to sell first Olympic tickets
Los Angeles Times
|March 31, 2026
Local sales will begin this week, with more options to buy two years ahead of Games.
EMMA MCINTYRE Getty Images for LA28 DR. DRE and Snoop Dogg perform during an LA28 handover celebration. Olympic ticket sales start soon.
There’s still more than two years remaining before the Olympics return to L.A., but fans can lock in their seats this week when tickets officially go on sale.
The virtual ticket box opens Thursday for locals in Southern California and Oklahoma. LA28 is planning to make 14 million tickets available for the Games, which would break the record for total tickets sold set by Paris 2024. The L.A. Games already attracted a record number of ticket registrations, topping 5 million fans from 197 countries and territories for the first drop.
Here’s everything you need to know about purchasing tickets for the 2028 Games:
When can I buy tickets?
The first tickets will go on sale from Thursday through Monday in a presale window reserved only for locals in Southern California and Oklahoma. The first general ticket window runs from April 9-19.
Fans who registered for tickets using zip codes from select counties in California (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura) and Oklahoma (Oklahoma, Canadian and Cleveland) were automatically entered into the presale lottery. Purchases during the presale will only be authorized if they are completed using a payment method that has a billing zip code from a qualifying county.
How do the time slots work?
This story is from the March 31, 2026 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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