FIFA has announced that, despite the poor sales to date, it is expecting a spectator turnout of 95-97% for the 2010 World Cup – numbers also achieved in Germany 4 years ago. They are also confident that more than 300,000 tickets still left for the tournament will be sold out before kick-off on 11 June. [...]
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Travel
April 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Football, Travel
Tickets Ticketing would be, usually, a huge issue, but with the finals less than 6 weeks away the numbers of European fans expected to travel is as low as 50% of the original projections. The FA and the organisers were expecting 100,000 English fans to attend and only a fraction of those will have tickets. [...]
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Up to 500,000 tickets unsold
April 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Football, Tickets
With fears of empty stadiums growing the organizing committee has given itself a huge task of shifting almost 25% of the tournament’s total match tickets in just two months. FIFA concede that their initial online process was not suited to local fans, who are relatively poor, do not have credit cards and have limited, and [...]
44,000 tickets made available by SAA at reduced prices for World Cup flights
April 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Features, Football, Tickets
MATCH is the professional services company selected by FIFA to provide ticketing, accommodation and event information technology services to FIFA. A spokesperson for SAA, Vimla Maistry, confirmed that the relationship between the two companies had broken down. What this means for supporters going to South Africa is potentially reduced fares with SAA as they have [...]
