Overview
- Registration opens Thursday at 2 p.m. and lets applicants sign up up to six people for one of the 16 festival days running June 12 through June 27.
- Boston 26 will issue digital passes before match days but said admission is subject to daily capacity and is not guaranteed for pass holders.
- The host committee estimates capacity at about 5,000 fans per day and requires metal detectors, bag screening, and a clear-bag policy to enter City Hall Plaza.
- City officials shortened the festival to 16 days because the screening infrastructure forces long closures of much of City Hall Plaza, and they have licensed six neighborhood watch parties with three sites confirmed so far.
- Organizers have not disclosed how many registrations they will accept and did not answer follow-up questions, a gap that reflects wider host-city tradeoffs over security, cost and fan access across the 2026 World Cup.