World Cup Tickets available again for nearly all World Cup matches

Football fans who had already given up all their hopes to view one of the World Cup matches live in the stadium should prick up their ears: For many of the matches tickets are available again. That is the case since FIFA established an exchange platform plus the possibility to hand on tickets to other persons.

Unfortunately, same as it ever was, it seems to take days to get through to FIFA’s ticket store online. For the first time this is the only place where World Cup tickets are sold. Once you manage to get past the so called „waiting room“, you should have activated javascript on your computer before. Otherwise the ticket store cannot accept your order. Unfortunately, you will not be informed about that fact unless you have managed to get beyond the waiting room.

Although the principle FIFA uses in this fifth and last stage of selling tickets to the public is „first come, first serve“, one should never give up to try to buy tickets. Whenever a genuine owner of a ticket decides to send it back, there’ll be a chance to get one for yourself.

The seats for which the sponsors own the World Cup Germany tickets might stay empty. Many companies do not find enough people, business partners or influential other persons, that want to accept these tickets. Especially in Germany, home of three main sponsors and naturally all six national sponsors, laws are very strict concerning to whom you may hand a ticket.

It is highly questionable why then FIFA gave 450,000 tickets only to their main sponsors. That amount would fill the stadiums at 9 of the 48 group stage matches. It seems comprehensible that millions of football fans longing for World Cup tickets will react angrily when seeing the not completely filled stadiums of the World Cup on tv, as it happened before at World Cup 2002.