Saturday, April 02, 2005
2006 World Cup Ticket applications exceed availability by 4.5 million
Fans from around the world have put FIFA under siege with 5.4m applications for the 812,000 tickets available during the first sales window, which closed last Thursday 31st March 2005. Approximately 1.5m applications were received during the last 7 days. 90% of the applications came from Europe, with 85% of these coming from Germany.
Tickets will be allocated by a lottery, which commences 15th April, and not on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.
Demand has been greater for the opening game on 9th June, likely to feature the hosts Germany (the only team guaranteed to have qualified) and for the Final on 9th July.
Fans that have chosen to follow a particular team throughout the tournament will have to wait until October to find out if their team qualifies and have a further wait until December to find out which group their team will be in, who are their opponents and in which cities the matches will be played. Fans whose team do not qualify or get knocked out at any stage before the final will be refunded for the unused tickets.
The next sales windows are from 1st May to 15th November and 1st December to 15th January 2006, where a further 300,000 tickets will be available. That’s a total of 1.1 million tickets guaranteed for public sale.
The remaining 1.86 million available tickets go to National Football Associations, sponsors, media and VIP’s.
3LionsSport.com
Tickets will be allocated by a lottery, which commences 15th April, and not on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.
Demand has been greater for the opening game on 9th June, likely to feature the hosts Germany (the only team guaranteed to have qualified) and for the Final on 9th July.
Fans that have chosen to follow a particular team throughout the tournament will have to wait until October to find out if their team qualifies and have a further wait until December to find out which group their team will be in, who are their opponents and in which cities the matches will be played. Fans whose team do not qualify or get knocked out at any stage before the final will be refunded for the unused tickets.
The next sales windows are from 1st May to 15th November and 1st December to 15th January 2006, where a further 300,000 tickets will be available. That’s a total of 1.1 million tickets guaranteed for public sale.
The remaining 1.86 million available tickets go to National Football Associations, sponsors, media and VIP’s.
3LionsSport.com
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