England Fans Head to Dallas Stadium for Croatia Opener
Up to 15,000 England fans are expected at dallas stadium on Wednesday when the Three Lions open their 2026 World Cup campaign against Croatia. The official England Supporters' Travel Club has already sold its allocation of 4,022 tickets, leaving demand well beyond the reserved block.
England Supporters' Travel Club
The United Kingdom Football Policing Unit said between 12,000 and 15,000 England fans are expected at each group-stage game, a crowd size that points to a large traveling presence in the United States. It also said 89,000 World Cup tickets have been purchased by fans from England across all 104 matches.
That total does not include supporters who traveled to the United States without tickets. England fans had already made the trip for pre-tournament friendlies against New Zealand and Costa Rica, and some tickets later appeared on Fifa's resale site at inflated prices.
Ticket Demand and Pricing
Tickets for Wednesday's match went on sale for £198, £373 or £523, with Fifa's official resale site adding an extra 15% on top. The prices sit against a wider pattern of high demand that pushed the official supporter allocation out quickly.
England fans have had a longer wait than most for their 2026 World Cup campaign to begin, with Wednesday's opener arriving six days after the tournament started. Travel numbers have varied sharply in recent tournaments: about 350,000 England fans were estimated in Germany in 2006, while only 4,000 are thought to have visited Qatar four years ago.
England Travel Patterns
The UKFPU said 20,000 to 30,000 is a more usual figure for England fan travel, which makes the expected Dallas turnout notable even before the opener kicks off. For supporters who already bought through the Travel Club, the issue is not access to the match but how far the demand has spread beyond the official allocation.
