40,000 Tickets in 90 Minutes
The game is still five months away, but fans in the United Kingdom can’t wait. The first 40,000 tickets made available for the NFL’s first overseas regular-season game on October 28 at Wembley Stadium in London, England between the Miami Dolphins and New York Giants sold today in 90 minutes. The tickets were available to fans who were randomly selected from an overwhelming number of registered ticket requests. More than half a million requests were received within 72 hours of the NFL’s announcement of the game in February. Alistair Kirkwood, the managing director of NFL UK said:
“Today’s first sale was exclusively to fans in the United Kingdom and Europe. The speed in which such a large number of tickets were snapped up through our partners at Ticketmaster demonstrates the great excitement and appetite for the game in this country. We know that the last few tickets available in this first batch will be gone very soon. Those who missed out this time around have the opportunity to be selected to participate in the next sale. This experience proves to us that fans will have to be quick to secure the remaining seats. This is a game for hardcore fans from all over the world. It will be unique to any regular-season
game because it is an opportunity for fans of the sport on a global basis to meet up and celebrate the game. Obviously the predominant number of fans will be from the UK, but there will be large numbers from the U.S. and Europe as well.”
Sales in the United States to Dolphins and Giants fans are expected to begin within a week, with additional tickets being released to fans in the United Kingdom next month.
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