Aside from a very small amount of $60 tickets offered in the upper deck of BMO Field, prices in November ranged from $185 (for some upper-deck tickets in the group stage) to $1,970 (for lower-level tickets to Canada's opening match).

And that's if you win the opportunity to buy via an official ticket lottery. Otherwise, your best bets are the resale market or a "last-minute" sales phase for tickets leftover after multiple lottery phases have ended.

The following is a guide to getting tickets to the six World Cup games in Toronto.

World Cup tickets aren't sold by stadiums or local teams. They're sold by FIFA, the global soccer governing body in charge of the World Cup, via a multiphase process.

That means there are multiple avenues to tickets:

Given FIFA's use of dynamic pricing those prices, however, are "variable," have already changed, and will almost certainly change some more once matchups are revealed. Those involving popular teams will cost more.

Rather than selling specific seats in specific rows and sections, FIFA sells tickets in categories, then assigns you a seat at a later date.

If you buy a Category 1 ticket at "Toronto Stadium," for example, you could be placed anywhere in a section colored yellow on the map below.

The red sections correspond to Category 2. The blue sections are Category 3. The tiny green slivers at the top of Sections 201, 202, 212, 212A, 218, 228 and 229 are the scarce Category 4 tickets.

For commercial reasons, FIFA won't let BMO Field call itself by its usual name at the World Cup. But "Toronto Stadium" is, in fact, the venue known to most Canadian sports fans as BMO Field, where Major League Soccer's Toronto FC and the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts play.

In the first lottery phase, if selected, you could buy a venue-specific package that included tickets to a majority of the World Cup matches at BMO Field.

In the upcoming third phase, though, those packages won't be offered, a FIFA spokesman told The Athletic. You'll have to apply for tickets match by match.

No. FIFA controls all ticket sales, and hasn't granted local teams the ability to offer any special access.

Toronto's official fan festival, which will be free to the public, is being staged across Fort York National Historic Site and The Bentway in the city's downtown. The festival will run from June 11 through July 19, so if fans can't make it to a game in-person, they can instead tune into live match broadcasts via large, outdoor screens in a space that's rich with Canadian history.

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