Record World Cup ticket applications in Sweden

[E-man]

Record World Cup ticket applications in Sweden
reuters
Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:47 PM GMT
   
 
STOCKHOLM, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Swedish fans have applied for a domestic record 304,000 World Cup tickets.

The team's Group B match against Paraguay in Berlin on June 15 is the most popular with applications topping 98,000 tickets, the Swedish Football Association said on Tuesday.

Supporters have also applied for more than 85,000 tickets for the Group B tie with England in Cologne on June 20.

Applications for Sweden's opening game against Trinidad & Tobago in Dortmund on June 10 amounted to more than 63,000. Sweden has only been awarded 4,595 tickets for the Trinidad & Tobago match, 5,099 against Paraguay and 3,047 against England but the FA said it had been promised more by world soccer's ruling body FIFA.

The recipients of the tickets will be decided by a computer lottery.

Swedish fans have also applied for more than 57,000 tickets for the latter stages of the tournament.


They are taking TTFF and everyone else to school on how to sell tickets the right way. They had a running tally on the website the whole time. Here's the final details:

http://www.svenskfotboll.se/t1.aspx?p=7141&x=1&a=192058

[ricky]

 but the FA said it had been promised more by world soccer's ruling body FIFA.

thanks for looking out for us vice president Jack

[supporter]

meanwhile trinidad and tobago have received a record 10,000+ ticket applications, which is amazing since the public didnt know how to apply and even though nobody knows who actually applied.