World Cup 2006 Tickets Thread

[Vagegast]

Thirteen team ticket series sold out
20 April 2005
by OC 2006 FIFA World Cup

This Friday, exactly one week after the ballot for the first contingent of 2006 FIFA World Cup™ match tickets, applicants who ordered through the internet will receive an e-mail from the Organising Committee congratulating the lucky winners and commiserating with those who missed out. A total of 652,521 individual tickets as well as team specific series tickets and wheelchair users' places were allocated in the ballot.

The eagerly-awaited ballot took place at FIFA World Cup Ticketing Center headquarters on 15 April 2005, some 420 days before the Opening Match in 2006. The huge volume of data to be processed called for some 1,000 individual draw procedures, but the task was still completed within ten hours. 208,455 of around 900,000 applicants were allocated tickets, equivalent to a 1 in 4.3 chance of success in the first sales phase. The internet accounted for 95% of the applications received.

A clear majority of the applicants hailed from Germany, but thirteen team specific quotas available in the first phase were taken up in their entirety, namely Argentina, Brazil, England, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, USA, and the host nation.

Ranked by number of applications, Germany headed the list followed by Great Britain, USA, Japan and Switzerland. Some 6.25 million (72 percent) of the 8.7 million valid applications originated in Germany.

All the tickets made available in the first sales phase for all 64 matches have been allocated, with "highlight" matches such as fixtures involving Germany, the semi-finals and the Final as much as 39 times overbooked.

Applicants who missed out in the first phase should try again when the second phase opens on 2 May 2005, offering exclusively team specific tickets through official website www.FIFAworldcup.com. In a significant departure from the first phase, the point at which applications are received assumes critical importance as 'first come, first served' applies from 2 May.

Damn...

 

[Sepp2in1]

I am going for sure, I started making money for this trip 2 years ago

going to get tickets for quarters, semis, final

yeah then good luck!
i ordered tickets for the final, both semis, 3 1/8 finals and 5 group games and didn´t get one ticket in this round

 

[adizlaja]

I didnt get ****. Most retarded ticket selling ever.

 

[mufc_daddy]

Hi chaps. Im planning on getting TST-7 England tickets when they go on sale again from early May. I have a few questions, if some of u wudnt mind helping:

1) My parents are applying for a master card to buy the tickets for me and my friend. Are they able to buy tickets for me and a friend using this 1 card??

2) Is there a limit from stopping them from buying 2 sets of England TST-7 packages?
It would blow if they could only buy 1 set meaning one person has to miss out.

3) If my friend and i have to buy tickets separately, is there any chance we can get seats together still??

I'm registered for a World Cup tour if i cant get tickets. This tour will let me see some games no matter what, which is a good thing for the experience. Im going to Germany no matter what as the atmoshpere around the place is still awesome even for those not actually watching games within the stadium.

If i cant get TST-7 England Tickets im gonna go for a TST-7 Nigeria package, that way i get to see a good team and some top games.

It sux how u cant buy TST and indivual match tickets. I would like to see the opening game which is not included in England TST. Anyway, feedback would be much appreciated chaps .

Thanks

 

[berni23]

1 no
2 no
3 yes

 

[mufc_daddy]

Thanks for the reply. I'm so excited to buy the tickets but the fact that they are 39 times oversold really is a bummer.

This may seem dumb but does anyone think i have a chance of getting a ticket to see England at any stage of the tournament?

 

[mufc_daddy]

All tickets to TST are sold out. Tried buying them online but its useless. I cudnt even get to the front of the que to purchase the tickets.

This ticket buying system really sucks!!!!!

Pretty much the whole tournament is sold out. No single tickets are available at present either.

My only hope is to wait for all the orders to be processed, then see if some people get their applications rejected, then i try again.

Anyone had any luck with purchases in phase 2?

 

[berni23]

you could still go for a tst7 from a lower nation like ivery cost or costa rica and see the finals

 

[mufc_daddy]

But if they dont qualify that is a waste of an application.

U dont get to choose someone else if they dont qualify, just a refund. Im gona wait a while to see if any vacancies turn up from people who cant afford tickets, etc.

 

[berni23]

refund tsts on sale!!!
just bought greece tst6!

 

[mika]

hahah

I got my tickets... see you in germany

forza azzurri

 

[Hopeunited]

I saw a 7-game ticket package on sale on eBay last month. It was going at 2,000 US dollars with already 51 people bidded. Don't know how much it went for in the end...

Brave people... trusting 2,000 bucks with some stranger on the web.

 

[Nikos Mihalakos]

I'm planning to buy tickets for the final no matter who the teams are, hopefully Greece

"Kai Se Dio Xronia Stin Germania Ferte mas Ferts mas tin Brazilia"

 

[Jannes]

i got ticket for hamburg.

first price rank...

1-5 line i can't remember... 500+ $ for me, my dad and my sister...

it will be a quarter final !!!

so cool, i cant wait for 2006

 

[reddebil99]

We have to qualify first re Niko =/