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TICKET ALLOCATION WORLD CUP

Sun Nov 27, 2022 2:43 pm

I though there was a limit on tickets for each country or did i dream it was about 3to 5,000 per country it seems the whole of morroco are in the stadium it just a sea of red everwhere granted belgium are also red but watching the game its massed with morrocans.

Re: TICKET ALLOCATION WORLD CUP

Sun Nov 27, 2022 2:56 pm

montyblue wrote:I though there was a limit on tickets for each country or did i dream it was about 3to 5,000 per country it seems the whole of morroco are in the stadium it just a sea of red everwhere granted belgium are also red but watching the game its massed with morrocans.



Can expect it as got lot migrant workers but south America countries seem to be far more supported than Europe ones? Tbf always been same every world cup.

Re: TICKET ALLOCATION WORLD CUP

Sun Nov 27, 2022 3:04 pm

PEMBROKE ALLAN

So i must have dreamt it about ticket allocation then suprised we did not take more in our first wirld cup and englands population 60 million i thought they could take 20,000 to world cup i would' nt think the south american countries are not that much more rich than us but yes mexico argetina brazil all there on mass and we wales had 30, 50,000 in france in euros granted its just across the eater but i thought even we would have managed 5,000 plus fans to our 1st world cup in 60 odd years

Re: TICKET ALLOCATION WORLD CUP

Sun Nov 27, 2022 3:18 pm

montyblue wrote:PEMBROKE ALLAN

So i must have dreamt it about ticket allocation then suprised we did not take more in our first wirld cup and englands population 60 million i thought they could take 20,000 to world cup i would' nt think the south american countries are not that much more rich than us but yes mexico argetina brazil all there on mass and we wales had 30, 50,000 in france in euros granted its just across the eater but i thought even we would have managed 5,000 plus fans to our 1st world cup in 60 odd years



I know but its always been same I was going to point out south America is a poor region but always go on mass to a WC maybe its because they've got high chances of reaching final and probably it's the affluent ones that go so wont be surprised if pre booked accommodation several
years ago? Where as we had to wait until we knew qualified..As for Morocco it's around 2hrs from Qatar so easy to get there also probably dont have same restrictions
regarding entry to Qatar.....and from what I've seen fans are able to buy tickets for any parts of stadium so spread out around not just in one section... must remember locals got very large allocation think was 60% of availability but how many actually want to watch a game not involving Qatar? So plenty available for fans to get hold off

Re: TICKET ALLOCATION WORLD CUP

Sun Nov 27, 2022 3:24 pm

We were heavily outnumbered in our first two games . I’d estimate by around 3/4 -1 in the USA game and by around 5 to 1 for Iran . There were thousands of them .

Attendances being overstated though , they announced the gate as 41k for the Iran game in a 44k stadium . There was easily 6-7k empty seats

Official allocations are one thing but you can also easily buy from fifa . We had all of ours via fifa as opposed to FAW and that would be driven by volume of fans .

Re: TICKET ALLOCATION WORLD CUP

Sun Nov 27, 2022 6:10 pm

I think part of the issue for us was that we didn't qualify until June due to the Ukraine situation whilst many countries qualified in November and i believe everyone else had qualified by March when non allocated tickets were put on sale. Much of the accomodation would have been booked up as well.