34,000 tickets for Iceland’s group matches
Stade de France, Paris. Photo: Wikipedia/Liondartois
Football fans from Iceland have been allocated a total of 34,000 tickets for the men’s national team’s opening group games in Euro 2016 in France.
This is enough for one in ten of the entire population of the island, the total being split across Iceland’s three games against Austria, Hungary and Portugal.
UEFA has announced that participating nations will be entitled to fill roughly 20% of each stadium they play in.
Iceland’s first game (v. Portugal) will be played at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard at Saint-Étienne, which has a capacity of 42,000. Icelandic fans will therefore have access to some 7,000 tickets there.
The blues then take on Hungary at the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille, with the accompanying blue army cheering from a possible 12,000 of the over 67,000 seats.
The final group game (v. Austria) kicks off at Paris’ 81,000-capacity Stade de France. 15,000 seats are up for grabs by Icelandic fans for that match on 22 June.
At least four Icelandic travel agents are currently busy putting together football package deals for Euro 2016, and demand is expected to be big.
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