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World Cup: category splits confirmed

World Cup: category splits confirmed

Posted by Team England at 17:07 on Monday 22 January 2018

FIFA have advised the following FA allocations for England’s World Cup matches:

Tunisia v England – 2816

England v Panama – 2855

England v Belgium – 2119

Round of 16- 3500

Quarter Final – 3000

Semi Final – 4800

Final – 5100

Football Community 

FIFA have confirmed that The FA’s Football Community allocation is 700 tickets per match and these form part of the above allocations. The Football Community is comprised of players’ families and guests, Football Clubs and County FAs. These tickets are primarily category 1 and we anticipate only using on average 300 tickets per match. We have requested to FIFA that the remaining 400 tickets per match be added to the England supporter’s allocation.

In addition, FIFA have provided a breakdown of the category split for each match for the tickets available to supporters:

Tunisia v England – 100 x cat 1, 504 x cat 2, 1512 x cat 3

England v Panama  -  100 x cat 1, 514 x cat 2, 1541 x cat 3

England v Belgium  - 100 x cat 1, 330 x cat 2, 989 x cat 3

Round of 16  -  100 x cat 1, 675 x cat 2, 2025 x cat 3

Quarter Final  - 100 x cat 1, 550 x cat 2, 1650 x cat 3

Semi Final  - 100 x cat 1, 1000 x cat 2, 3000 x cat 3

Match for 3rd Place - 100 x cat 1, 925 x cat 2, 2775 x cat 3

Final - 100 x cat 1, 1075 x cat 2, 3225 x cat 3   

 *Please note the 400 surplus Football Community tickets per match are not included in the above totals as we are awaiting FIFA confirmation that this will be allowed.

Category Advice

Based on current applications submitted to FIFA so far only the Belgium match is oversubscribed. All other matches, including knock-out matches are under-subscribed as of the 19th January 2018. Given this information and based on the queries we have received, we believe that the vast majority of members (who are planning on going to the World Cup) have completed their applications for tickets and so we can now offer the following advice:

- We expect to have sufficient category 3 tickets for all matches except Belgium to meet the total demand from members. If you haven’t applied for this category already you may wish to amend your application to a category 3 ticket if this is your preference.

* Update as of 19/01/2018
- For the Panama match we can now advise that we expect to have sufficient category 3 tickets for all those who apply, meaning if you have selected category 1 or category 2 tickets you may now wish to amend your application and select category 3.

- For the Belgium game our advice would now be for those on 45+ caps to apply for a category 3 ticket; those on 20+ caps for a category 2 (and tick the box to be moved down) and for all those on less than 20 caps to apply for a category 1 ticket (and tick the box to be moved down).

Group bookings

Members applying in groups with varying caps level should note that some members may miss out on a ticket for the Belgium game depending on which category they select. As previously advised, fans that are on a similar caps level should apply together; however top and low cappers are encouraged to apply separately and for a different category in order to have a better chance of being successful for this match. For example for the Belgium game:

Lead member Tom has 52 caps and applies for category 3 tickets. Dick and Harry have 16 caps each and apply with Tom for category 3 tickets. It is likely that Tom will be successful in his application but Dick and Harry will not be allocated tickets (due to their caps level). Therefore, we would strongly advise that Tom apply on his own for category 3 tickets (or with others on a similar caps level) and Dick and Harry apply separately for a category 1 ticket (and check the box to say that they would accept a category 2 ticket). Therefore, all three members have a better chance of being allocated tickets - albeit separately.

Please note

The information and advice provided in this news story is subject to change based on the number of applications submitted to FIFA. We will endeavour to update members accordingly when more information is released.

If you have any questions regarding the ticket allocations, please direct your query to FIFA using the ‘contact us’ form here: https://support.tickets.fifa.com/en-gb/enquiry-form.aspx

If you have any queries regarding your application, please email englandsupportersclub@thefa.com or call 0800 389 1966. Please note that we are unable to check applications on the FIFA system but we will do our best to offer advice and support. 

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  • Paul, i think it is done deliberately these days so that all regions/cities get a chance of seeing some decent teams and some decent followings in their city. They don't get away with letting these smaller places only have Morocco v Iran at their grounds, as it's not worth their effort being a host city.

    Just seems luck of the draw our biggest games always seem to end up as those games! We could just have easily had the Wales games in Marseille if Wales had been drawn into Russia's position number.

  • I have just logged on to my ticketing page and just above the list of all the England games there is a line saying 8 Products selected, I have only ordered 2 tickets for the Belgium game (game no.45) so I checked the list of individual games and it looks like I have ordered 2 tickets for each of the games 46,47 and 48 as well. Of course they do not appear in my checkout or on my copy of the Request ID so I am now a little worried that somebody may have used my card to order 6 more tickets and changed the delivery address.

  • Andrew Roper - you should be able to edit the order and delete the games you don't want

  • OK I've worked out what the issue is, I cannot order tickets for those extra games because they are being played at the same time as the England game. It does still leave the question why it was telling me that I had 8 products selected when I only had 2 but I will sort that out with my bank just in case.

  • Shocking allocation

  • I need to change my application/request for Belgium game. I want to change to category 2 instead of 3. How do I do this? There is an option to “ Edit “? Then what?

  • @ Paul Robinson @ Braden Valles

    It hasn't been stated explicitly, but for oversubscribed matches I think the FA carry out one 70% allocation / 20% ballot / 10% ballot based on all members who have applied for that match. Obviously, this is not necessary if the match was undersubscribed. I don't think there is a separate 70/20/10 exercise for each category.

    When the FA have identified the successful applicants, they start with the highest cappers and give them their first choice of category. If that category has already been filled with higher cappers then they are bumped down to the next lower category. They work their way down the successful applicants in caps order.

    If this isn't how they do it, maybe the FA could publish how it is done.