How to Check When a Polymarket Market Ends (US 2026)

Official Browse Markets: each market shows the question, the current Yes and No prices, and a resolution date. That is the one retail clock those swipe pages name on the card. Official Place a Trade: tap the market to open the ticket. Look at that same date on the opened page. We will not invent a home-screen chip labelled “End time” or “Deadline” those pages do not print. If the sports desk is hidden where you live, stop.

Official Events & Markets: an event is usually one game with a start time, two participants, and one or more tickets attached. That start time is when the underlying contest is scheduled to begin. It is not automatically the last moment you can trade, and it is not the resolution date on the tile. We will not paste a TV window or a 2026 kickoff we invent onto that field. Confirm the start time printed on the event — then still read the market clocks below.

Official Market Rules include a Resolution Timeframe: when the outcome is evaluated. Their teaching examples include “results available at 11:59 PM ET on the end date” and “if the event does not occur by 11:59 PM ET.” Those are published teaching lines, not a sports-game lock we reprint as tonight’s rule. Scroll the Rules block on the ticket in front of you. If that block is blank or you do not understand the window, do not click.

Official Sports FAQs use a contract expiration date when a game is postponed or never becomes official. Their published window is typically two weeks from the original event date. That expiration is the last moment the official result can still grade that ticket; outside it, those FAQs settle at last fair market price. It is not the resolution date on the browse tile, and it is not a kickoff we invent. Official Markets API also names endDate as the market end date — that is a field name, not a phone-chip menu we will paste onto the swipe.

Official Market Resolution: markets stay open until the event is over, then resolve after the official result is publicly confirmed. Official Sports FAQs apply the same game-level rules to pregame and in-game trading unless a sport-specific section says otherwise. Those FAQs do not publish an NFL lock-at-kickoff carve-out. Official Prices & Market Data: Open means the market is still accepting orders. We will not invent a “closes when the broadcast starts” rule.

The event on a player-prop ticket is the official stat, not the opening kick. Because the default is “open until the event is over,” that sentence can still be trading after kickoff — the opposite of most sportsbook props, which lock when the game does. We could not confirm from those public US pages that every player-prop ticket stays open after kickoff, or that every winner ticket closes at kickoff. Look on the opened ticket for when trading ends. If the live control is not labelled “Last trade,” we describe the action instead of inventing that header. After it prints closed, you are holding to settlement.

The resolution date on the tile is when that market is scheduled to be eligible to grade — Official Market Rules call the evaluation window a Resolution Timeframe. Official Market Resolution still waits for the official result to be publicly confirmed. Sports markets often resolve shortly after that post. A ticket can show a resolution date and still accept orders, or it can print closed before that date if the event is already over. Read both the date and whether the book is still Open. We do not reprint a live stamp.

A TV window, a recap, or a kickoff we would type here is not the trading rule. Official Events & Markets teaching examples use docs dates; they are not a 2026 slate we reprint. Confirm any scheduled start against the official league schedule, then confirm the clocks on that ticket. If search and the Sports/NFL hub both miss a game, the desk may not have listed it — that is not a prompt to invent the time. How to find an NFL market is that hunt. This page does not clone it.

Sportsbooks often lock a prop when the game starts. Polymarket US’s published default is the opposite: stay open until the event is over, including in-game trading unless a sport-specific section says otherwise. NFL has no such published carve-out on the Sports FAQs we checked. If a specific ticket stamps an earlier last-trade time, that stamp is the rule for that ticket — not a house rule we write for the whole board.

Hard rule: if official US help names the field, we name it. Official Browse Markets names resolution date. Official Events & Markets names start time. Official Market Rules name a Resolution Timeframe and use “end date” in teaching copy. Official Markets API names endDate. Official Place a Trade does not reprint a retail column labelled “End time,” “Deadline,” or “Last trade” on the swipe we checked. We will not invent those headers. The action is: open the ticket, read the printed date, then look for whether orders are still accepted.

Official Prices & Market Data: Halted means trading has been stopped; Expired means the market has ended and settled. Official “Can I sell early?”: you can close a position at any time while the market is still open — you do not have to wait for resolution. After the book prints closed, that early exit is gone. You are holding to the grade. How to sell a ticket early is that exit. This page does not repeat it.

Official Market Resolution: resolution happens after the official result is publicly confirmed. Sports markets often resolve shortly after that post. That is “after the league posts,” not “when the announcer says final,” and not a minute-count we can verify. How Polymarket resolves NFL games is the official-source grade. This page does not clone that hierarchy.

Official Market Settlement: Polymarket Clearing sets winning contracts to $1.00, losing contracts to $0.00, and updates your Portfolio when settlement completes. Close is not pay. We could not verify a public “pays in X minutes” figure. How to cash out is the later bank off-ramp — only after you have cash and the funding deposit has fully cleared. This page stops at reading the clock.