MOSCOW, 4 April 2018:
Up to 1.7 million tickets have been allocated – both to domestic and international football fans – after the closure of the second period of Phase 2 of ticket sales for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Russian News Agency (TASS) reported.
“With just 72 days left until the start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, another ticket sales period drew to a close today,” the FIFA said in a statement on Monday.
“During the first-come, first-served sales window, which opened on March 13, a total of 394,433 tickets were allocated to fans across the world,” the world’s governing football body stated.
“1,698,049 tickets have been allocated to fans worldwide since sales started in September 2017, with the overall international demand accounting for 53%.”
The 2018 FIFA World Cup kicks off in 72 days with the opening match in the Russian capital of Moscow.
Russia selected 11 host cities to be the venues for the matches of the 2018 World Cup and they are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara.
The matches of the 2018 World Cup will be held between June 14 and July 15 at 12 stadiums located in the cities across Russia. Two of the stadiums are located in the Russian capital.
– Bernama