Jalisco
Mexican state whose capital, Guadalajara, hosted 2026 World Cup matches.
Jalisco, the Mexican state whose capital Guadalajara hosted four 2026 World Cup matches, is the only host in this briefing whose public spending has been rebuilt contract by contract, a tally a local reporter took past 445 million pesos by 28 July.
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How did one reporter build the only line-by-line World Cup spending total anywhere?
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Reached a contracted spending tally of 445.7 million pesos
2026 FIFA World Cup: A reporter added up Jalisco's contractsBackground
Jalisco is a Mexican state on the Pacific coast; its capital, Guadalajara, is one of the country's largest cities and hosted four matches during the 2026 World Cup.
As a host state, Jalisco stands out for how transparent its tournament-related spending has become: rather than a single official figure, its costs have been assembled piece by piece from public contract records by a local reporter, not released as a top-down total by the state itself.
That bottom-up method makes Jalisco's account the most granular of any Mexican World Cup host examined here, though it remains a running total built from available records rather than a final, audited cost.
Jalisco's tally keeps climbing
A Guadalajara reporter has spent weeks cross-checking public procurement records to build Jalisco's only line-by-line account of what the World Cup has cost the state, a running count that climbed from roughly 377 million pesos in mid-June to 445.7 million pesos by 28 July. The state government has not disputed the total.
Most of that growth simply reflects more contracts surfacing in the record, not new overspending; the single biggest item, a 300 million peso deal to stage the Fan Festival in Guadalajara, was already booked in June. Jalisco's state-level figure sits well apart from Mexico's four competing national estimates, which range from 39.7 billion to 66 billion pesos.
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