November 11 – The second ticketing sales window for the 2014 World Cup Brazil opened today at 12:00 CET / 9:00 Brasilia time. More than 220,000 tickets are available in this sales window for 57 matches and FIFA is warning that demand is expected to be high. Unlike the first sales window, the second window will allocate tickets on a first come first served basis.
There will be no tickets in this sales window for the opening match in São Paulo, the final in Maracanã, Brazil’s group-stage matches, the Round of 16 in Belo Horizonte and the semi-final matches in Belo Horizonte and São Paulo.
FIFA is emphasising to ticket applicants that it is important to ensure they have enough funds in their account to complete payment. The governing body is also strongly warning ticket buyers of going through other channels or online agencies to buy tickets.
FIFA.com is the only online sales platform for tickets for the 2014 World Cup and any ticket products being offered by other companies or on other platforms are not the official ticket sales programme.
The amount of tickets on sale include almost 41,000 venue specific ticketswhich grant fans access to matches within one of the Host Cities, as well as a very limited amount of follow your team ticket series (TST).
Last week FIFA marketing director Thierry Weil announced record numbers in the first allocation of tickets after overseeing a random distribution of almost 900,000 tickets to fans from 188 nations, with 71.5% going to Brazilians.
Outside the host country, where 625,276 tickets were allocated, the highest number came from the United States (66,646), followed by England (22,257), Germany (18,019), Australia (15,401), Canada (13,507), France (11,628), Colombia (11,326), Switzerland (8,082), Japan (5,021) and Argentina (4,493).
In total, FIFA is making available 3.72 million tickets and has already received around six million applications.
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