The tickets for next month’s Argentina-Nigeria international friendly match in Dhaka will go on sale on August 8 at eight different city branches of IFIC Bank, the Bangladesh Football Federation announced on Thursday.
A total of 11,846 tickets – 6,447 for the western gallery and 5,399 for the eastern gallery – will be available for public consumption – while another 3,135 western gallery tickets will be sold to corporate houses.
The remaining tickets of the 25,000-seater stadium have been kept reserved for clubs and district football associations, said the BFF claiming that 90 per cent of those tickets have already been booked.
The IFIC Bank branches where tickets will be available are – Motijheeel, Dhanmondi, Gulshan, Karwanbazar, Mirpur, Uttara, Islampur and Bashundhara Residential Area branches.
The tickets will be sold on first come first serve basis and the sale will continue until the last ticket is sold. Initially the bank will provide an allotment letter and the fans will have to collect their tickets showing it at the specified branch three days before the game.
‘One person can buy maximum ten tickets,’ said Anwarul Haque Helal, the chairman of the match organising committee, adding that fans will not be needed to show any documents to buy ticket vouchers unlike the World Cup Cricket held earlier this year.
Asked why they have chosen only the bank branches of the capital to sell tickets, Helal said: ‘We have already sold more than 5,000 tickets to our district football associations. We can’t afford to sell anymore tickets outside Dhaka. The tickets are very limited,’ said Helal.
Helal also unveiled a special privilege package for corporate houses saying if any company buys more than 500 tickets at a time it will be allowed to advertise its brands in a certain area of the gallery.
BFF president Kazi Salahuddin and IFIC Bank managing director Mohammad Abdullah signed an agreement on behalf of their respective organisations.
-With New Age input
