Over 6m Ticket Requests For Fifa World Cup

11 Oct 2013 | tshego

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FIFA has confirmed it will hold a random draw to allocate tickets for the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil, after over six million applications were made – almost double the total available.

In all, 6,164,682 requests came in from 203 countries, with more than 70% from the host nation Brazil, according to the sport’s world governing body.

Tickets not allocated will be available on a first-come, first-served basis from 5th November, with fans then allowed to buy tickets again on 8th December following the World Cup draw, with the opening game in Sao Paolo on 12th June 2014.

Brazil’s first fixture had 726,067 requests and the final 751,165, with 80,000 seats available for each match.

Nearly 4.4m ticket applications came from Brazil, with 374,065 from the United States and 96,780 from England.

Organisers expect a total of nearly 3.3 million tickets to be available for the first World Cup in Brazil since 1950, but only about one million were offered in the first phase.

According to FIFA, one million requests were made in the first seven hours after the sales opened in late August, and another one million requests were made in the past week.

Nearly 800,000 fans attended the Confederations Cup in Brazil this year, with ticket sales easily surpassing those for the tournaments in South Africa in 2009 and in Germany in 2005.