This week, tickets for all three legs of the 2025 World Cup were made available for purchase. The series will kick off in Carmel, Indiana (October 10–12), continue to Westmont, Illinois (October 17–19), and wrap up in Toronto, Canada (October 23–25).
Already confirmed for the 2025 circuit are 2025 World Champions Summer McIntosh, Kaylee McKeown, Kate Douglass, Mollie O’Callaghan, and Hubert Kos, along with fellow World Championship medalists Thomas Ceccon, Noe Ponti, Josh Liendo, and Regan Smith.
This year, the athletes will share a prize pool of 1.2 million USD, on top of the $10,000 World Record bonus and the Crown bonuses, which will reward standout performances.
Last year, there were eight World Records and a total pay out of 1.46 million USD.
Carmel has been working on updating their pool since 2019, and they just unveiled the finished pool late last year when they hosted the Carmel Holiday Invitational. The new pool features a 50-meter competition pool, a dedicated diving well, floor-to-ceiling windows, updated ventilation, a spectator seating area for 1,400 fans that boasts the ability to see all 10 lanes from every seat, and an additional training pool.
Tickets for the meet are available as an all-session pass for $159.50, or as single-session passes: $10 for heats and $20 for finals.
The Westmont, Illinois leg will be held at the FMC Natatorium at Ty Warner Park. The Westmont facility features a nine-lane 50m Myrtha Pool with spectator seating on three sides and a capacity of 1,200.
The venue has hosted numerous Pro Swim Series stops, most recently serving as the opening stop for the 2025 season.
Tickets are only available as single-session passes: $10 for heats sessions and $20 for finals.
Toronto was the first city to host a World Cup event back in 1988, and it will be hosting the final stop this year. The Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre has two Olympic-sized 10-lane pools and is considered the fastest pool on Canadian soil. The facility regularly hosts the Canadian Olympic Trials and has previously hosted the Pan American Games in 2015 and a leg of the 2022 World Cup.
Tickets for prelims range from $10–25 per session, while finals range from $25–50 per session.
Single-session ticket sales for the Carmel stop launched this morning: https://carmelswimclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Swimming-World-Cup-Carmel-Tickets.pdf
$10 for prelims, $20 for finals
25m Pool is more interesting for a wc. Better warmup for the Short Course Championships
Unfortunately this is the time I decided to travel internationally so I will not be able to attend this. But in the future might be able to attend these.
World Cup? More like Midwest America cup.
Indianapolis, Chicago, and Toronto…
Carmel, Westmont, Toronto
jeez, i guess i’m lucky for being closest to Westmont. those prices are ridiculous, especially Carmel.
$150 is for all 6 sessions. That doesn’t seem too bad for a pro sporting event.
why couldnt they just make single sessions like last year in asia.
agreed – thankfully i’m 20 minutes away!