How To Get LA 2028 Olympics Tickets

Olympics fever may have wound down after 2026’s Milan-Cortina Winter edition – but there’s always another instalment on the horizon.

While one of the buzziest stories to come out of the 2024 Paris Games was undoubtedly the delicious chocolate muffin, the likes of gymnastics, skateboarding, and for the first (and perhaps the last) time, break dancing were also in the spotlight as the world’s most talented athletes battled it out for a spot on the podium.

As with the end of every Olympics Games, we want to do it all over again. So who is hosting, and how can we bag tickets? Here’s everything you need to know about the LA 2028 Olympics.

LA 2028 Olympics: When, Where, Tickets & More

Los Angeles will host the 2028 Summer Olympic Games, the sprawling coastal California city, and the United States’ second largest city after New York City.

In a spectacular closing ceremony at Paris 2024, the Olympic baton was officially passed to Los Angeles. The city’s mayor Karen Bass received the official Olympic flag from Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, with Tom Cruise sealing the deal by jumping from the roof of the Stade de France and performances from Billie Eilish, H.E.R., Red Hot Chili Peppers and Snoop Dogg.

This is the third time Los Angeles will host the Summer Olympics after hosting in 1932 and 1984, making it the third city to host a Games three times after London (1908, 1948, 2012) and Paris (1900, 1924, 2024). (This recently prompted London Mayor Sadiq Khan to pledge to enter a bid for the British capital to host the games for a record fourth time in 2040.)

Los Angeles was officially awarded the 2028 Olympics way back in 2017, which is also when Paris was named host city for 2024. With such a storied Olympics history – indeed, the first ever Olympics podium was wheeled out in LA in 1932, now an iconic part of every Games – the Los Angeles committee has proudly declared no new sporting facilities will be erected for the 2028 Games, aligning well with the International Olympic Committee’s emphasis on sustainability. So much so a handful of events won’t take place in Los Angeles, but instead in Oklahoma City.

Ahead of the Games, Los Angeles has been working hard to improve its public transport links in the hopes that LA28 will be entirely car free.

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum will host the athletics, the third time the stadium has hosted an Olympic Games. (Mike Quach, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

When Are The Next Olympics?

Los Angeles will host the next Summer Olympics from Friday 14 July until Sunday 30 July 2028. The Paralympics will then take place from 15 August until 27 August 2028 – the first time LA has hosted the Games.

How To Get LA 2028 Olympics Tickets

The first round of LA 2028 tickets were sold in a presale from 2–6 April 2026 to fans local to the Greater Los Angeles and Oklahoma City regions, with prices starting from $28.

Drop 1 of tickets for the wider public is taking place from 9–19 April, with a ballot system in place. The gist is thus: sign up to the LA28 Ticket Draw, and cross your fingers. If you are successful, you are sent a time slot – a designated window in which you can log on and purchase up to 12 Olympics tickets across any competitions or ceremonies (max. four per ceremony). Instead of a specific seat, users select a tier, with seats randomly assigned closer to the date within these tiers. You can also book up to 12 additional football tickets.

If you didn’t win a time slot in Drop 1, you will be automatically signed up to the next drop, and can start crossing your fingers all over again. If you missed out on the original registration period, all is not lost (yet): additional ticket draws will take place later in 2026. Keep an eye on the LA28 social media accounts or sign up to their newsletter to be notified when the next window opens.

For context, a whopping 9.7 million tickets were sold for Paris 2024 – so there’s plenty still to come. Hospitality tickets are also on sale, with packages including reserved seating, lounge access, meals, fast track entry and often accommodation and transfers, too. We’re also told ticketholders will be able to sell unwanted tickets via AXS, Eventim, Ticketmaster or Sports Illustrated Tickets in 2027.

Tickets to the Paralympic Games will go on sale in 2027.

How Much Are Tickets?

As the Olympics shares, tickets start from $28 per person, and climb into the thousands. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Jessica Roy confirms the latter, sharing accessibly priced tickets are ‘few and far between’. She shares: ‘Some of the most popular events, including swimming, gymnastics, track and field and basketball, cost well into the triple and even quadruple digits for a single ticket – if you can find them at all.’

In reply, LA28 confirmed: ‘Our ticketing program will include one million tickets priced at $28, our lowest price point, and those tickets will be available for every sport, but not every session.’ They added that hundreds of thousands of these tickets were snapped up in the local presale – so you are unlikely to find them in later drops.

Early reports hint the prices are higher than those we saw at Paris 24, with some tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies priced as high as $4,700. There’s also a 24 percent service fee on tickets.

American gymnast Simone Biles won three gold and one silver medal at Paris 2024. (Pictured: Simone Biles at Rio 2016 in Simone Biles Rising, courtesy of Netflix © 2024)

Which Sports Will Be Played?

It’s the end of the road for Breaking, the dance sport which made its Olympic debut at Paris 2024, and will not return for LA28. But the same cannot be said for Los Angeles 2028’s newbies and returnees: cricket, lacrosse, baseball/softball, squash, and flag football. Over in the Paralympics, Paraclimbing will be competed for the first time.

From what we know so far, the full list of sports at Los Angeles 2028 is as follows:

• Archery
• Artistic Gymnastics
• Artistic Swimming
• Athletics
• Badminton
• Baseball/Softball
• Basketball
• Basketball 3×3
• Beach Volleyball
• Boxing
• Canoe Slalom
• Canoe Sprint
• Cricket
• Cycling BMX Freestyle
• Cycling BMX Racing
• Cycling Mountain Bike
• Cycling Road
• Cycling Track
• Diving
• Equestrian
• Fencing
• Flag Football
• Football
• Golf
• Handball
• Hockey
• Judo
• Lacrosse
• Marathon Swimming
• Modern Pentathlon
• Rhythmic Gymnastics
• Rowing
• Rugby Sevens
• Sailing
• Shooting
• Skateboarding
• Sport Climbing
• Squash
• Surfing
• Swimming
• Table Tennis
• Taekwondo
• Tennis
• Trampoline
• Triathlon
• Volleyball
• Water Polo
• Weightlifting
• Wrestling

DISCOVER

Stay up to date with the LA 2028 Olympics at la28.org