Almost 350,000 tickets requested for the 2014 FIFA World Cup within 5 hours of second sales phase

Within the first five hours of the opening of the second sales phase, 344,055 tickets were requested by football fans from around the world for the 2014 FIFA World Cup via www.FIFA.com. Brazilians continued with most applications at the top of the list (300,332), followed by Chile (5,538), USA (5,326), Argentina (4,477), Australia (3,217), France (2,540), Germany (2,533), England (2,092), Colombia (2,341) and Japan (1,339).

Football fans have until 12:00 CET on 30 January 2014 to apply for tickets at www.FIFA.com/tickets.

During this sales period all fans have an equal chance to be successful regardless of the date the request is made within this timeframe. All requests will be amalgamated at the end of the phase and processed together.

If the number of requests received per product and category exceeds the number of tickets available, a lottery will be held to determine the successful applicants.