2.3 Million Brazil 2014 World Cup Tickets Requested in First 24 Hours

August 22, 2013

Around 2.3 million tickets for the Brazil 2014 World Cup were requested by more than 400, clinic 000 fans in the first 24 hours of going on sale.

Unsurprisingly the majority of those fans are Brazilians, cough closely followed by Argentinians, Americans, Chileans and Colombians.

The opening match in Sao Paulo has already generated 372,000 ticket requests, whilst the final at the newly re-opened Maracana has received 344,000.

Fans have until October 10 to apply for tickets. All requests will be merged at the end of the phase and processed together.

A lottery will be held if requests received exceed the tickets available.