Wednesday, March 27

Ticket sales for the Qatar World Cup begin


Fans can start registering for tickets to the Qatar World Cup on Wednesday with away prices starting at around €60, a third cheaper than the tournament in Russia, The Associated Press has learned.

Category three tickets on sale internationally will cost 250 Qatari riyals (60 euros), two people with knowledge of the prices said on Tuesday, compared with $105 (90 euros) for the equivalent in 2018. The people spoke on condition of anonymity. anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the ticketing process.

The cheapest tickets, in category four for Qatari residents only, will cost 40 Qatari riyals (9.7 euros), the people said. The anticipated ticket prices will be the cheapest in a World Cup since the $3 seats in Mexico, based on 1986 exchange rates, and half the price of those available to the locals at the equivalent of $22 in Russia. in 2018.

The low entry point for tickets in Qatar could help provide access to the low-paid migrant worker population for the period November 21-December 1. 18 tournament. The cheapest tickets for the 2019 world championships in athletics cost 60 Qatari riyals (14.5 euros), and eventually admission was made free for workers to fill empty seats.

FIFA tickets will be distributed through a regulated process rather than an open sale with the full price range yet to be announced. Fans who apply to attend the matches of the first Middle East World Cup will only find out if they are successful in a random draw at the end of the first application phase which runs until February 8.

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The ticketing process begins with only 13 of the 32 tournament slots filled and qualifying doesn’t conclude until the intercontinental playoffs in June.

FIFA aims to generate $500 million (€441 million) from World Cup hospitality rights and ticket sales, according to the governing body’s most recent financial report.

Unlike previous World Cups, little travel will be required once in Qatar with the eight newly built stadiums within a 30-mile radius of Doha.

Travel during the tournament will be the shortest since the 1954 tournament in Switzerland, but hotel availability may be limited.

Local organizers have booked most of the hotels in Qatar, so no availability was shown on Tuesday to book for the duration of the tournament when searching online.

Rooms in hotels, apartments and cruise ships will be available through a website later this year. Only around 90,000 rooms will be available to the public with 40,000 reserved for teams, officials, sponsors and media.

While wilderness camping had previously been touted as a means of finding space for fans, it is now being downplayed as a major option. There will be 4,000 cabins on the cruise ships that will dock in Doha for the tournament.

Qatar Airways, a sponsor of FIFA, is already selling packages that include flights, hotels and guaranteed tickets to follow their country.

World Cup organizers have also said more than 1.2 million visitors will come. The group stage features 32 teams with matches spread over 12 days as Qatar anticipates 559,000 with a peak of 276,000 ticket holders around November 27-28 requiring approximately 128,000 rooms, according to details provided to the AP last month. .

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Some fans could still be dissuaded from flying to the World Cup after a decade of criticism over Qatar’s treatment of migrant workers, who are mostly from Southwest Asia and have been relied on to build infrastructure ever since. won the FIFA venue rights in 2010.


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