FIFA: Up to 1.7 million tickets allocated for matches of 2018 World Cup in Russia

MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. Up to 1.7 million tickets have been allocated both to domestic and international football fans after the closure of the second period of Phase 2 of ticket sales for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off in 72 days in Russia, the FIFA said in its statement on Monday. "With just 72 days left until the start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, another ticket sales period drew to a close today," the world’s governing football body said in its statement. "During the first-come, first-served sales window, which opened on 13 March, a total of 394,433 tickets were allocated to fans across the world," the FIFA stated adding that "1,698,049 tickets have been allocated to fans worldwide since sales started in September 2017, with the overall international demand accounting for 53 percent." The 2018 FIFA World Cup kicks off in 72 days with the opening match in the Russian capital of Moscow. Russia selected 11 host cities to be the venues for the matches of the 2018 World Cup and they are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara. The matches of the 2018 World Cup will be held between June 14 and July 15 at 12 stadiums located in the 11 mentioned above cities across Russia. Two of the stadiums are located in the Russian capital. Read more