2018 World Cup: 120,000 tickets sold hours after an additional inventory, 2.5 million already sold

"A few hours after an additional inventory of 2018 FIFA World Cup tickets became available at FIFA.com/tickets, 120,000 tickets have already been allocated and currently only a limited inventory for selected matches is remaining available for purchase online," announced FIFA on 09/06/2018.

"In accordance with the ticket sales structure and in line with FIFA’s efforts to make as many tickets as possible available directly to football fans, more than 100,000 tickets, which were previously reserved for other FIFA constituent groups, will be made available at FIFA.com/tickets on a first-come, first-served basis on 08/06/2018, 23:00 Moscow time (22:00 CET)," explained FIFA.

"A traffic light system on FIFA.com/tickets will give fans an indication about ticket availability," added FIFA. Since sales began, more than 2.5 million tickets have been sold to people all over the world. Ticket sales on FIFA.com/tickets will continue until Sunday 15/07/2018, the day of the final.

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