Fans who purchased tickets for the FIFA Women’s World Cup in the costliest class have declared their frustration after many realised they’d been positioned proper on the high of the stadium.
Many rushed to buy tickets for the event, to be performed in Australia and New Zealand in just a few months’ time, and spent up for class 1 tickets.
But whereas the FIFA web site states “class 1 is the best priced (ticket class) and situated in prime areas throughout the stadium”, many had been unaware they may very well be allotted as excessive because the very again row on the highest tier.
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A ticketing map of Stadium Australia exhibits class 1 masking all over the place from one nook of the sector, throughout the wing and to the alternative nook, but in addition all the best way as much as the very high.
“It’s very misleading. People really feel they’ve been duped, that it’s false promoting,” ticket purchaser Ann Murphy informed the Nine papers.
The ticketing for the ladies’s World Cup has annoyed followers.Source: FOX SPORTS
Another, Tala Salah, mentioned: “I used to be underneath the impression that individuals who get their palms on tickets within the earliest ticket phases could be rewarded with one of the best seats inside their class.
“I took that afternoon off work to verify I may purchase one of the best tickets.
“We’ve as an alternative been assigned the worst potential seats inside our class on degree 6, the place you may barely see what’s occurring.”
FIFA defined ticketing maps had been obtainable so followers knew the place they might probably be positioned however that hasn’t stopped the frustration flowing.
“From the very starting of ticket gross sales again in October 2022, FIFA has clearly communicated by way of stadium maps the place followers can be allotted seats based mostly on the ticket class bought,” a spokesperson mentioned.
The event will get underway on July 20.
