FIFA appears to have technical difficulties with World Cup ticket sales
FIFA appeared to have technical difficulties when it resumed World Cup ticket sales Wednesday after the 48-team field was finalized. Soccer's governing body did not say which games and price categories were available. Some people who clicked on what FIFA called its “last-minute sales phase” when sales opened at 11 a.
m. EDT were directed into a queue for "PMA late qualifier supporters sales phase," aimed for a segment of fans for the six nations who earned berths on Tuesday. FIFA appeared to have lengthy waits to purchase tickets, with people who joined the queue at the start still waiting to get through the queue 90 minutes later.
FIFA did not have an explanation for why the link misdirection occurred but said around noon that the links were working properly. FIFA also said that not all remaining tickets were being put on sale for the 104 games to be played in the U. S.
, Mexico and Canada from June 11 to July 19 and that additional tickets will be released on a rolling basis. This was the fifth phase of ticket sales following a Visa presale draw from Sept. 10-19, an early ticket draw from Oct.
27-31, a random selection draw from Dec. 11 to Jan. 13 and an unscheduled 48-hour availability in late February.