What to Know
- The Olympics will return to Los Angeles for an historic third time in 2028.
- The LA 2028 Olympics Opening Ceremony is July 14, 2028, with competition through July 30, 2028.
- The LA28 Paralympic Games will kick off Aug. 15, 2028, and close Aug. 27, 2028.
- Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Exposition Park and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood will host the Opening and Closing Ceremony in a dual-venue celebration.
- Registration for a chance to buy tickets opens Wednesday.
- Los Angeles area residents and those in the Oklahoma City region, the site of softball and canoe slalom, who register for the ticket draw will have a chance to secure an early ticket purchase slot.
A golden opportunity arrives Wednesday for global sports fans when registration opens for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics ticket draw.
The process starts by signing up to be entered in a lottery for a time slot to purchase tickets, which will start at $28, for all 2028 Olympics sports. About 14 million tickets will be released for the Olympics and Paralympics, according to LA28, topping the 12 million tickets for the Paris Olympics.
Here’s how it works.
Starting Wednesday, register for the ticket draw and create a profile. Registrants will be entered in the draw for an opportunity to buy tickets during a randomly drawn time slot.
You’ll find out the time slot via email.
Los Angeles area residents and those in the Oklahoma City region, the site of softball and canoe slalom, who register for the ticket draw will have a chance to secure a time slot during a special early-access window, according to LA28. The locals early purchase window will be from April 2 through April 6, if you register for the ticket draw by March 18.
To be eligible for the locals’ early access, you must have a zip code matching a credit card’s billing address in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, or Ventura counties for the California events. In Oklahoma, a Canadian or Cleveland county address is required.
Full ticket sales will open later in 2026, but the organizing committee has not released a date. Purchase rules also have not been released, such as possible ticket limits.
More registration information can be found at LA28’s tickets page.
When are the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics?
The Olympics will return to Los Angeles for an historic third time in 2028.
The LA 2028 Olympics Opening Ceremony is July 14, 2028, with competition through July 30, 2028. The LA28 Paralympic Games will kick off Aug. 15, 2028, and close Aug. 27, 2028.
The organizing committee has released a first look at the competition schedule. Field hockey, basketball, rugby sevens, water polo, handball and cricket will be the first sports to kick off the competition on July 12, two days before the Opening Ceremony.
The first full date of competition, designated Day 1, is July 15. The order of events includes a twist for 2028 with track and field and swimming swapping their typical schedules. Track and field will compete at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in the first week of the Olympics schedule with swimming moving to the second week at SoFi Stadium.
The marathons will still be on the final weekend.
The first medal will be awarded in triathlon on Day 1 in Venice Beach. July 29, or Day 15, will be the busiest day on the podium with 16 gold and bronze events in team sports and 19 individual medal events.
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Exposition Park and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood will host the Opening Ceremony in a duel-venue celebration. The Paralympic Opening Ceremony will be at SoFi Stadium with the Closing Ceremony at the Coliseum.
New for the 2028 Olympics
The program approved for 2028 has 22 more medal events than Paris 2024 at 351.
Mixed team events added for 2028 include artistic gymnastics, athletics (4×100 mixed gender relay), golf, archery (compound bow), coastal rowing beach sprint and table tennis. The competition format for the new artistic gymnastic mixed team event will be finalized and announced at a later date.
The medal competition includes expansions to the field of women’s soccer and water polo event, a new women’s boxing weight class, an expanded 3×3 basketball field, and more medal events in swimming and sport climbing.
Flag football will make its Olympic debut in 2028 and lacrosse will return to the lineup of medal sports for the first time in more than a century. Baseball and softball will make their Olympic comeback, and cricket also will be part of the lineup.
See the full list of medal events here.
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