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Iran’s capped ticket allocation for women sells out

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 7th October 2019

Iranian female football fans have snapped up all 3,500 tickets for the men’s game against Cambodia, with the entire allocated section for women in Tehran’s 90,000-capacity Azadi Stadium being sold...

Tags: Fifa World Cup, Human Rights Watch, Iran, Women

SEC fines firm millions in 2014 World Cup ticket case

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 13th May 2019

Telefonica Brasil has been fined $4.1m (£3.2m/€3.6m) to settle charges made against it for its handling of ticket purchases and a hospitality programme it ran during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The...

Tags: Fifa World Cup, SEC, Telefonica Brasil

FIFA bans former ExCo member for bribery offences, illegal ticket resale

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 14th March 2019

World football’s governing body FIFA has banned former Executive Committee member Rafael Salguero in the latest case connected to ticketing for the World Cup. Salguero, former president of the Gu...

Tags: Concacaf, Fifa, Fifa World Cup, Football, Rafael Salguero, ticket resale

FIFA member under scrutiny in ticketing allegations

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 1st August 2018

Ramon Jesurun, president of the Colombian Football Federation (FCF), is under investigation for allegedly illegally reselling 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying tickets and embezzlement. Jesurun is...

Tags: Colombia, Embezzlement, Fifa World Cup, Inflated Price, Investigation, Price, Qualifiers, Ramon Jesurun, Resale, Ticketshop, Tu TicketYa.com

England fans look to resale sites for semi tickets

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 9th July 2018

Thousands of England fans are desperately trawling resale sites for the chance to watch the 2018 FIFA World Cup semi-final match against Croatia on Wednesday. After host country Russia exited the ...

Tags: England, Fifa World Cup, Resale, Russia 2018, semi final, World Cup

Fan ID loophole could push ticketless fans to Russia

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 28th June 2018

The Football Supporters’ Federation (FSF) said it hopes more England fans will travel to Russia following the exposure of a loophole in the Fan ID system. The FSF has been able to obtain a number...

Tags: England, Fan ID, Fifa World Cup, Football Supporters' Federation, FSF, Russia 2018

FA chair “sad” at fewer England fans at WC18

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 25th June 2018

Greg Clarke, chairman of the Football Association, has said he is “sad” about the lack of English fans at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Despite being in the 10 ten countries in terms of ti...

Tags: FA, Fifa World Cup, Greg Clarke, Lindsay Skoll, Russia, World Cup

Chinese WC fans fall victim to touts

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 19th June 2018

More than 3,500 Chinese football fans have fallen victim to touts selling fake FIFA 2018 World Cup tickets. Around 10,000 counterfeit tickets have been sold globally for Russia 2018, with more than a...

Tags: China, Counterfeit, Fifa World Cup, Russia 2018, Scalpers, Touts, World Cup

World Cup scam leads to calls for vigilance

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 30th May 2018

Fans hoping to obtain tickets for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia have been warned to be more “vigilant” after a ticketing scam was flagged up. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab noticed an email p...

Tags: Fifa World Cup, Football, Russia 2018, scam, World Cup

BlocSide Sports first to trial Aventus Protocol

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 4th May 2018

Blockchain-based ticketing firm Aventus will link-up with BlocSide Sports for the first trials of its Aventus Protocol source-code. Aventus Protocol is an open-source blockchain ticketing platform ...

Tags: Aventus, Aventus Protocol, Blockchain, BlocSide, Fan Engagement, Fifa World Cup, First Trial, Open Source, Sport, Technology

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