November 20, 2022, 7:30 PM
November 20, 2022, 7:30 PM
Nearly three million tickets for the World Cup in Qatar were sold, FIFA announced this Sunday, also revealing that the tournament should report a record sum of 7,500 million dollars between now and the end of the year.
Those 7,500 million dollars represent the income generated for four years by the governing body of world soccer, and exceed the initial estimate by one billion.
A FIFA spokesman told AFP that they had been sold. 2.95 million tickets until opening day, Sunday.
The start of the World Cup has aroused great interest in the 64 matches that will be played over 29 days, despite the negative publicity surrounding the Qatar organization.
Queues have built up at the FIFA ticket center in Doha and fans report long waits to access the official digital ticketing platform.
Taking these figures into account, Qatar has already surpassed Russia 2018, where just over 2.4 million tickets were sold.
The spokesman said that Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United States, Mexico, Britain, the United Arab Emirates, Argentina, France, India and Brazil they were the countries of origin of the majority of ticket buyers.
Infantino told a conference before 211 FIFA member associations that The “fantastic figures” have been achieved “despite the covid and the different crises in the world.”
The Italian-Swiss leader also stated that new rules regulating player agents will be announced this year, and He showed his willingness to see more matches between teams from different regions, as well as an expanded World Cup.
