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Tickets For Sale in France Published:September 19th, 1997
Tickets have gone on sale in France for the first game of the World Cup Finals on June 10th. Brazil's first game in their preliminary group will be seen by 80,000 in the newly constructed Stade de France in Paris which will host the Final in July as well. Tickets are also now available for the first group games in the other centres of the competition, Paris' Parc des Princes, Lyon, Marseilles and Nantes. The sale of the first batch of tickets will stop on October 18th and the remaining
227,000 tickets will be awarded to the winners of a lottery, the details of which have
yet to be finalised. The tickets are available to all residents of France and there is a limit
of two tickets per person. The number of tickets available to the public for the first game is
33,000. The Final, semi-final and quarter final in the Stade de France will each have 31,000
tickets on sale but not until nearer the time. Fans abroad will have access to the chance to
buy tickets through their own football federations but these will not be available until all
qualifiers are known and the initial groups have been arranged.
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