LA Tickets 2028Cheapest LA28 Tickets by Sport: How the 28 Dollar Seats Worked
The honest headline about LA28 prices is that the Games are two markets at once. At the top, ceremony and finals seats run into the thousands of dollars. At the bottom, LA28 deliberately built a mass market floor: about a million tickets at 28 dollars, in a nod to the year, plus a deep bench of seats under 100 dollars. This page is about hunting the bottom of that market.
The published price shape
| Price band | Share of tickets, per LA28 |
|---|---|
| 28 dollars | About 1 million tickets |
| Under 100 dollars | About a third of all tickets |
| Under 200 dollars | About half of all tickets |
| Under 400 dollars | More than three quarters of all tickets |
| Over 1,000 dollars | About 5 percent of all tickets |
Half the Games costs less than 200 dollars a seat. The catch is never the existence of cheap tickets. The catch is the speed at which they leave.
Where the cheap seats live
Cheap seats follow a pattern you can plan around. They live in preliminary rounds, not finals. They live in sports with large venues and long session lists: soccer group matches across big stadiums, rugby sevens prelims, beach volleyball prelims, archery ranking rounds, golf early rounds, handball, hockey and the marathon program of athletics heats at the Coliseum. In the April 2026 locals presale, the 28 dollar tier drained within days, and by the end of that presale only women's golf preliminaries and women's soccer matches were still showing the floor price. The famous rooms, gymnastics, swimming finals, track finals, basketball medal games, never carried the floor price at all.
A hunting plan for the 2027 sale
The 2027 general sale is first come, first served, so preparation replaces luck. Rank your target sessions in advance, cheapest first, and buy in that order rather than browsing. Put big venue prelims at the top of the list and treat any sub 100 dollar seat as a win. Have backup sessions in the same sport ready, because the gap between a prelim at 28 dollars and the same sport's later rounds is where budgets quietly double. Remember that the 24 percent service fee is already inside displayed prices, so the number on screen is the number you pay.
And keep the second Games in view. Paralympic tickets go on sale for the first time in 2027 with a full program at first release. LA28 has not published Paralympic prices, but a first drop of an entire Games is historically where face value value sits longest.
Common questions
What is the cheapest LA28 ticket?
28 dollars. LA28 built about a million tickets at that price into the program, the 2028 nod in the price being deliberate. They are the fastest selling price point in every sale so far.
Which sports had the cheapest LA28 tickets?
In the 2026 drops, 28 dollar seats appeared in preliminary rounds of sports such as beach volleyball, rugby sevens, archery, golf and soccer group matches. By the end of the locals presale, reporting found only a couple of sports still showing seats at that price.
How are LA28 tickets priced overall?
LA28 says about a third of tickets are priced under 100 dollars, about half under 200 dollars, more than three quarters under 400 dollars, and about 5 percent over 1,000 dollars. The full picture is in the prices and fees guide.
Will there be 28 dollar tickets in the 2027 sale?
LA28 promises refreshed inventory across all Olympic sports for the 2027 first come sale, but it has not published that sale's price list. Assume the cheapest seats go in the first minutes and plan your order of attack before the sale opens.