When Do Tickets for the 2027 Champions League Final Go on Sale?

Nothing for the 2027 final is on sale from UEFA yet

UEFA is not yet selling general-public tickets for the 2027 Champions League final, and it has not said how or when that sale will run. Its ticketing help centre says only that information about sales "will be available next year on UEFA.com/tickets". When I checked on 1 October 2026, UEFA's tickets page had no entry for the final at all, and no terms and conditions for 2027 had been published.

UEFA has scheduled the final for Saturday 5 June 2027, at the stadium it calls the Estadio Metropolitano, which Atlético have called the Riyadh Air Metropolitano since October 2024. UEFA gives its capacity as around 70,000. It has not announced a kick-off time for Madrid. In 2025 UEFA said that, starting with the 2026 final in Budapest, the final would move from 21:00 to 18:00 Central European time, and Budapest did start at 18:00 CEST. The 2026/27 competition regulations, though, still set 21.00 CET as the rule, with exceptions left to the UEFA administration.

If 2027 follows the last three finals, the standard general-public route for anyone outside the two finalists' allocations will be a ballot on UEFA.com. In 2024, 2025 and 2026 it stayed open for between three and seven days, in March or April, and closed before the first semi-final was played. The 2026 window ran from 16 to 19 March.

The one useful job for this autumn is on the UEFA side. In 2026 applications went through UEFA's ticket portal, and UEFA's help pages tie the portal account to MyUEFA: in 2024 and 2025 the help centre told fans to delete a portal account by logging in to MyUEFA. Before the 2026 sale opened, UEFA.com/tickets told fans to "create your myUEFA account now and subscribe for ticketing updates". Create a MyUEFA account now, with an email address you will still be using next spring, because in 2025 the portal did not let you change your personal details or email once they had been entered. Applications for 2027 final tickets have not opened, and I could not confirm whether the 2027 ticket portal already lets you register an account, or whether there is an alert for this final alone. Under the 2026 terms, applicants also had to be over 18 and pay by Visa or Mastercard in euros. As for timing, by early February 2026 the help centre was saying sales would "not start before mid-March 2026", so from February I would be checking UEFA.com/tickets every week.

Some sites already claim to sell seats for this final. Why I would not touch them is further down.

The public ballot has stayed open for a week or less, and closed before the semi-finals

These are the last three public sales, with the application window and the first leg of the semi-finals that followed it.

The gap between the ballot closing and the first semi-final ran from two weeks to about six. Either way, applicants did not know who would be in the final. The 2027 semi-finals are scheduled for 27 and 28 April and 4 and 5 May, so if UEFA keeps to its recent pattern, applications will close before 27 April.

UEFA's 2026 announcement said general public tickets "will not be sold on a first come, first served basis, but through a lottery that will be conducted after the application period has ended", so for the draw itself, applying in the first minute gave you no advantage over applying on the last day. The 2026 terms described the draw as a ranking. Applicants were put in a random order, and the higher you sat, the better your chance of being offered tickets. You could ask for two at most, and a second application from the same person was rejected.

How you choose a price category has changed from year to year. In 2025 you picked a category when you applied. In 2026 you could not: successful applicants chose a category when they paid, from whatever was left. In both years seats were allocated at random unless the portal said otherwise, so you did not pick a block.

The 2024, 2025 and 2026 terms all asked every applicant to say, when registering, which of the participating clubs they supported. In 2024, general-public applicants could choose between entering "regardless of the finalists" and entering only if their own team qualified. UEFA's 2024 help pages add that the second group went into a separate draw after the semi-finals. I could not find whether the 2025 and 2026 portals offered the same choice.

In 2026 the result came by email, by a date shown on the portal rather than in the terms. Applicants offered the chance to buy then had to download the UEFA Mobile Tickets app and register on the phone they would use to get into the stadium, and only after that could they pay on the portal, within the time UEFA gave them. Registering in the app did not guarantee a ticket, and an offer that was not taken up passed to the next person in the ranking. Once you had bought, the 2026 terms gave you no right of withdrawal.

Most of the "fan" tickets go to the two finalists' supporters, and the ballot gets what is left

In each of the last three years UEFA announced how many tickets were "available directly for fans and the general public", and the headline figure looks generous. In 2026 it was 39,000 out of 61,400. The two finalists received 17,200 each from that figure, which leaves about 4,600 for the rest of the world. The same subtraction gives about 2,700 for Munich in 2025 (38,700, less 18,000 per club) and about 10,000 for Wembley in 2024, a much bigger stadium (60,000, less 25,000 per club). UEFA has not published any 2027 allocations.

Prices were identical in 2025 and 2026: €70 for Fans First, €180 for Category 3, €650 for Category 2 and €950 for Category 1. Fans First was "reserved for fans via the finalists' allocations", so the cheapest standard seat a neutral could win in the ballot was €180. Tickets for disabled spectators were priced at the lowest rate in all three years (£60 at Wembley, €70 in Munich and Budapest), each with a free companion ticket, which UEFA's 2026 announcement described as available on request. There are no 2027 prices yet.

If your club reaches the final, the main route is the club's own allocation. Under the 2026 terms the club allocation was sold on a separate UEFA portal unless the club said otherwise, and clubs could give access codes to the supporters they chose, under their own rules, which could include being a member. Real Madrid in 2024 took applications from socios only, starting the day after the second leg of their semi-final, with a draw before a notary set for 14 May if applications outran the tickets. Inter in 2025 sold in stages, sending the first codes to supporters with the longest records as season-ticket holders or Inter Club members, one ticket per code. Both clubs opened their sales within about ten days of the semi-finals.

In 2026 a ballot ticket lived on one phone, and resale went only through UEFA's platform

Under the 2026 terms, ballot tickets were mobile tickets in the UEFA Mobile Tickets app by default. For 2024, UEFA said tickets would arrive a few days before the match. Registering in the app meant giving your name, email address, mobile number, date of birth and the country that issued your ID, and missing the deadline got the ticket cancelled without a refund. The phone you registered had to be the one you took to the turnstile, and logging in on more than one device was not allowed. UEFA's May 2026 warning said screenshots, paper tickets and print-at-home tickets were not valid, and you could be asked for photo ID at the entrance.

Passing a ticket on was tightly limited. The winner could bring a guest on the second ticket, as long as the winner went too and nobody paid more than face value. The rule that changed in 2026 covers a winner who cannot go. In 2024 and 2025 that person could hand the ticket to a friend or family member. Under the 2026 terms the ticket "must be offered for sale on the ticket resale platform" instead.

That platform was new in 2026, and the 2024 and 2025 terms had no such clause. Sellers listed at face value with no seller's fee. Buyers paid face value plus a 10 per cent service fee, which was not refunded if they later resold the ticket, and access to buy went first to fans who had lost in the ballot. When it opened was left to UEFA's discretion. If you miss out in the draw, it is the next place I would look, assuming UEFA runs it again. The 2027 terms have not been published, so nobody can say yet.

Seats listed for the 2027 final today are not from UEFA's public sale

When I searched on 1 October 2026, I found sites already listing seats for the Madrid final at several thousand dollars each. One of them said only a handful were left and gave a 21:00 kick-off. Another site's page for the final was still titled with the 2026 venue in Budapest and said no games were scheduled. UEFA's public sale for 2027 has not opened, so none of the seats in those 2027 listings can have been bought in it, and I found nothing from UEFA saying that any tickets for this final have been issued yet. In a 2021 report to the UK government, the Competition and Markets Authority described resellers advertising tickets they did not own and buying them only after the sale, while buyers believed their entry was guaranteed. From the outside I cannot tell which listings for this final work that way.

The 2026 terms banned not only reselling or transferring a ticket but any "offer or advertisement" of one. The 2026 stadium rules said tickets "acquired from unauthorised sources shall be invalid". Under those terms, a ticket bought or used in breach was void with no refund, and the person holding it was to be treated as a trespasser and refused entry or removed from the stadium. Packages with a final ticket included are being sold as well. I cannot see where those tickets come from, but the 2026 terms forbade selling a general-sale ticket as part of a package with flights or hotels, and the hospitality agent UEFA has appointed for 2027 is in the next section.

Ahead of its club competition finals in each of 2024, 2025 and 2026, UEFA announced that tickets had already been cancelled, and in May 2026 it said "hundreds" had gone across that season's club finals, with more cancellations likely to follow.

Ahead of the 2019 final at this stadium, UEFA warned that fake tickets were circulating in high numbers, and on the day of the final police in Madrid arrested a seller of counterfeit tickets.

On top of UEFA's terms, Madrid's regional law on public shows, which covers sporting events, explicitly bans street resale and requires the regional government's prior authorisation for the resale of tickets. I am not saying here whether any particular website falls foul of it. The region's consumer office warns that resale sites can sell tickets that do not exist or are fake, and that if an event is called off, the refund covers face value and not the mark-up. I would not buy any of these listings.

Official hospitality is the only way to buy a 2027 ticket that UEFA has announced so far, with sales due at the end of 2026

If you would rather not depend on a ballot or a club allocation, the only way to buy a 2027 ticket that UEFA has announced so far is its official hospitality. In 2026 UEFA Events SA sold the packages, directly or through sales agents it appointed, and for 2027 UEFA has named BEYOND Hospitality as the "Authorised UEFA Champions League Final 2027 Official Hospitality Sales Agent". BEYOND's Madrid page takes registrations of interest and shows no packages or prices. UEFA's hospitality page says sales will "go live at the end of this year", meaning the end of 2026. If the ballot keeps to its past timing, hospitality goes on sale first.

For a sense of the price, BEYOND's brochure for Budapest 2026 priced UEFA's Prestige package at €7,400 a head and Prestige Outside at €6,900, both before Hungarian VAT of 27 per cent. Prices for Madrid have not been announced.

If Atlético reach the final, the Metropolitano stays neutral and the club receives its own allocation

Nothing in the regulations moves the final, or makes it an Atlético home game, if Atlético reach it in their own stadium. The 2026/27 regulations say the final "is played as one single match at a neutral and predetermined stadium", with the date and stadium chosen by UEFA's Executive Committee. The nominal home side is whichever team sits on the silver side of the bracket, "for administrative purposes", regardless of who owns the ground. One practical effect the regulations spell out concerns kits, where the designated away team changes if the colours clash.

UEFA decides how many tickets each finalist gets, and the regulations say the allocations "do not necessarily have to be equal". The nearest precedent is Bayern in 2012, who played the final at their own stadium in Munich and received 17,500 tickets, the same as Chelsea. Bayern sold their share to members by ballot, and on the night of the final used their usual home dressing room.

Atlético's own finals were sold differently. For Lisbon in 2014 the club received 16,970 tickets from UEFA and put 13,050 on sale to members, one ticket each, with no draw. Season-ticket holders with more than 25 years' membership came first, then Abono Total holders in membership-number order, then other season-ticket holders, and members without a season ticket last. Sales were in person, at the ticket windows at the north end of the Vicente Calderón, at UEFA's four category prices of €70, €160, €280 and €390. Milan in 2016 used the same order. The club received 19,550 tickets and set aside 15,325 for members, sold at the same windows from 9 to 16 May. For the remaining 81, the club contacted Abono Total holders in membership-number order. The members' share had sold out by 18 May, and the last member to get a ticket held an Abono Total with membership number 21,158.

In both years the club's announcement came three or four days after the second leg of the semi-final, and sales began two or three days after that. The 2027 second legs are on 4 and 5 May. The process has changed since then. Those tickets were collected at the window, while under the 2026 terms the club share was sold on a UEFA portal, where clubs could use access codes, unless the club said otherwise. Neither the club nor UEFA has said how a 2027 allocation would be distributed.

Madrid 2019 shows what the trip can cost, not how tickets work now

The last final at this stadium, Liverpool against Tottenham in 2019, was sold the same basic way: 4,000 tickets for the general public through a UEFA.com ballot that closed on 21 March, two per person, and 17,000 for each club. A lot else has changed since. The kick-off was 21:00 CEST. Tickets were physical, delivered by courier or collected from the clubs, and by 2023 UEFA was saying that all tickets for the final would be delivered as mobile tickets. The end of transfers for a winner who cannot go, and the official resale, both arrived in 2026.

On hotel prices, 2019 is still useful as a warning. STR's figures, reported by the Spanish trade paper Hosteltur, put Madrid's revenue per available room on the night of the final at €506.84, up 467.7 per cent on the same night a year earlier, with occupancy at 91 per cent. Hosteltur's reading was that rates went up weeks before the final and demand did not keep pace. In May 2019 Cinco Días also found that the big hotel chains were not taking one-night bookings for the final weekend.

If I had decided to go whoever reached the final, I would book a room I could cancel before the semi-finals, rather than wait to join the two finalists' supporters in looking for one. Where to stay, area by area, is in the Madrid hotels guide.

Seats, transport and the rest of the day have their own guides

In the 2025 and 2026 ballots, seats were allocated at random within a category unless the portal said otherwise, so you could not pick a block. The Metropolitano seating guide still shows what each part of the ground is like. Getting to the stadium and the rest of a matchday in Madrid have their own guides, and for ordinary Atlético home matches the Atlético tickets guide explains how the club sells. I will update the top of this article, and its check date, whenever UEFA announces anything about the 2027 sale.