Tickets sales open for the AFC’s expanded Asian Cup UAE 2019

June 28 – Ticket sales have opened for the AFC’s blue riband national team competition, the Asian Cup, to be played in the UAE in early 2019. The expanded tournament has opened up group ticket sales reporting strong interest from local businesses.

UAE 2019 will be the first time the tournament has been expanded to 24 teams and will see 51 matches played between January 5 and February 1 in eight stadiums in four cities across the three Emirates.

The group ticket sales are the first ticket release by the local organising committee and are part of the LOC’s “aim of ‘Bringing Asia Together’, group ticket packages allow businesses the chance to bring their employees, no matter their nationality or football knowledge, to celebrate Asia as one,” said an AFC press release.

Dato Windsor John, General Secretary of the Asian Football Confederation said: “Asian Cup is the pinnacle of national team football in Asia and the tournament in UAE will be the biggest and best ever staged with the potential for thousands of fans to follow their teams. The UAE is home to a diverse population and the group sales offer them all a chance to take part in this celebration of football.”

Local organisers are counting on local businesses to get involved with the tournament and encourage their employees, whatever their nationality, to attend.

His Excellency Aref Hamed Al Awani, Tournament Director of the Local Organising Committee, commented: “We’ve had a phenomenal amount of interest from the business community in the UAE looking to secure seats to the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019, which is exciting to see. These packages will allow local companies the opportunity to bring their employees together for a truly unforgettable experience and in turn support us unite a continent in the Emirates.

“We have a very diverse workforce in the UAE, which includes most of the Asian nations heading to compete here in January 2019. We also have many football fans from these countries and others from Western nations living in the UAE, too. We see a real chance here for employees to be brought together in a celebration of football and Asia.”

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