French FA Tickets for Sale

[ArdeeBhoy]

Latest news (http://www.leparisien.fr/sports/billets-pour-france-irlande-aucune-vente-en-ligne-21-10-2009-682858.php) :

The French tickets are going on sale tomorrow at midday.

No tickets will be available via the Internet or by telephone.

4 per person - ID needed to buy them to prevent one person buying more than 4 tickets.

Presumably only with a French passport, French ID card, or proof of French address??

Not that I agree....

[Schumi]

Presumably only with a French passport, French ID card, or proof of French address??

I doubt it. How many Irish people are going to make a trip to Paris to buy tickets?

[ArdeeBhoy]

Not to be contrary, but presuming the French FA will only sell their tickets to those they think are French, which would not be easy to circumvent, based on those forms of ID?

Know there are at least 2 Paris-based posters, but that's only 8 tickets, unless they have a lot of friends....

[ptegan]

Presumably only with a French passport, French ID card, or proof of French address??

Not that I agree....


No. The id system is just to prevent the same person, Irish or French, from buying more than 4 tickets. Anything else would be against the law :)


> This morning's Irish times suggest they can be bought on the french federations website at 11am, or reserved by phone??

No. Only for Agencies, supporter clubs and corporate entities.

[Sligo Hornet]

No. The id system is just to prevent the same person, Irish or French, from buying more than 4 tickets. Anything else would be against the law :)


> This morning's Irish times suggest they can be bought on the french federations website at 11am, or reserved by phone??

No. Only for Agencies, supporter clubs and corporate entities.

Guess what your first job of the day is ptegan? (and all of your fellow friends and relations in Paris);)

[ArdeeBhoy]

Cheers, for clarifying PE.

So Irish punters can buy in France.....good.

[ptegan]

I suppose some know others that between now and then will be heading over to Paris. There are FNAC ticket offices all over the city so they shouldn't be a problem to get but dreams of 20,000 in the stadium may have been kicked in the teeth.

To be honest though as it's a midweek match, in November, I wasn't expecting all that many anyhow.

[eaststand85]

Latest reports on the Irish Times website suggesting there will now be no tickets sold online:

In a clear bid to avoid tickets falling into Irish hands, the French FA (FFF) have decided not to sell seats for the forthcoming World Cup qualifier on the internet or over the telephone.

Tickets for the Republic of Ireland's meeting with France in Paris go on sale at 11am this morning (12pm French time) but will only be available for fans to buy in person at designated outlets across France.

It had been thought that seats would be available to purchase online – as had been the case throughout France’s qualifying campaign.

However, having seen Irish fans invade the Stade de France the last time the sides met in Paris the FFF have decided to close down that route of access for Irish supporters.
http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/soccer/2009/1022/1224257246678.html

[paul_oshea]

Ive a froggie mate, who ive asked to get 4 when he is over next week, i dont care about buying extra tickets to be honest, im pretty sure ill get rid of them as a i know a few people looking for tickets thta dont have any other contacts to get tickets so i can always give them to them :D

Just wondering though, how long does it take for tickets to be snapped up? I know people were saying they dont normally sell out but do tickets generally sell quickly if ye know what i mean?

[Sligo Hornet]

Ive a froggie mate, who ive asked to get 4 when he is over next week, i dont care about buying extra tickets to be honest, im pretty sure ill get rid of them as a i know a few people looking for tickets thta dont have any other contacts to get tickets so i can always give them to them :D

Just wondering though, how long does it take for tickets to be snapped up? I know people were saying they dont normally sell out but do tickets generally sell quickly if ye know what i mean?

Nice one paul......when you have them purchased post up on here the area in the stadium that they are located in, so other Irish fans can try to buy in the same sections

[paul_oshea]

I will, good thinking, if someone can tell me where abouts the irish section is then cant i ask him to try and get the tickets there? or well relative to a certain section i dont mean exact seats....

[skimcg]

I have a friend in France at the moment where will send her to buy 4 tickets for me?

[ptegan]

I have a friend in France at the moment where will send her to buy 4 tickets for me?


Carrefour, Fnac, Géant, Système U, Intermarché, Auchan, Leclerc, Virgin, Cora, Cultura, Galerie Lafayette, BHV

FNAC ( a French version of a Virgin Megastore) will probably be the easiest to find.

[newrynyuk]

I will, good thinking, if someone can tell me where abouts the irish section is then cant i ask him to try and get the tickets there? or well relative to a certain section i dont mean exact seats....

Away fans are usually assigned the Sud Tribune, so try and get tickets near there.

[paul_oshea]

ive noticed a lot of supermarkets in that list pauk egan, but just wondering if all those have ticket outlets at each store throughout the country or is it designated stores in certain parts of the country?!

[Real ale Madrid]

Just got a call from a friend who is at the Stade de France - large crowd queing there at the moment and the €80 tickets are the only ones that are left.

Maybe demand will be high from the French people after all??

[skimcg]

Is it worth sending someone to these ticket shops if that's the case with tickets at stade de france

[ptegan]

ive noticed a lot of supermarkets in that list pauk egan, but just wondering if all those have ticket outlets at each store throughout the country or is it designated stores in certain parts of the country?!


No. Only some of the bigger supermarkets have ticket outlets which is why it's generally best to pop into a Fnac which generally always has a ticket office if it's in a regional town (only some Fnac's have ticket offices in Paris).

[Real ale Madrid]

Is it worth sending someone to these ticket shops if that's the case with tickets at stade de france

I dunno really - if I was going down the buying tickets in France route id be doing it sooner rather than later - demand seems to higher than normal.

[paul_oshea]

wasn't expecting that, the frogs have heard the rallying call.

[Barna Bee]

I have applied for tickets from the FAI but have a french mate who is going to get them in Paris for me this evening ...he is going over on the Eurostar at 3pm . I reckon this initial jump for tickets by the french will not last and they won't be sold out too early ....remember they have hardly ever sold out that stadium. If I am successful with both FAI and from France. I will be giving tickets to irish fans on the day.

Also people anybody loaded and just wants to be sure of tickets they are available from a relaively safe site www.viagogo.com right now .

Also be sure to see a glut of tickets available on Ebay ....regardless of the FFF saying they are going to clamp down on e sales.

Back in 2004 there was a load of hysteria ragarding tickets and look waht happene then! Don't fret we will all getin

[ArdeeBhoy]

Just got a call from a friend who is at the Stade de France - large crowd queing there at the moment and the €80 tickets are the only ones that are left.

Maybe demand will be high from the French people after all??


Could be the c*nto trick of selling the dearest tickets first....

[eaststand85]

Just got a call from a friend who is at the Stade de France - large crowd queing there at the moment and the €80 tickets are the only ones that are left.

Maybe demand will be high from the French people after all??

Could it just be that each outlet only gets a certain amount of tickets and the cheaper tickets are still available elsewhere? Pretty sure I've heard of this happen before with Ticketmaster in Ireland where Stephen's Green has massive qeues and runs out but then but it's easy enough to pick them up down the country.

[paul_oshea]

Ya of course, they sell the higher premium first where there is more of hte expensive tickets and less of the least expensive.

Just had a mate from luxenbourg go down who got 4 with his irish passport, so thats not a worry as suggested by some previouslly. But he was limited and couldn't get any when he went back later!

[spin]

Lads, I've just been into my local fnac in Stras, got to the head of the queue by 12h40 and all 20€ and 40€ tickets had gone. dunno if they're releasing them in batches or have bundles reserved for clubs or what but the girl who served me implied that soon all that'd be left would be 100€ tickets...

[Raheen]

I got mine a few minutes ago at Virgin in Gare Montparnasse. Went to FNAC on Rue de Rennes first but it was bedlam there. Everybody I know here got four tickets. They did ask for id and proof of address though as well as French telephone number.

[paul_oshea]

ya get all the irish out buying up 4, they will definitely sell them all when we get over.

[StretchRyan]

Just been to local Auuchan In luxembourg at lunch an they are selling tickets too.

But only the 80 and 100 eur ones,there was a queue in front of me of all french who bought the cheap tickets 40/60. No 20 went on sale here.

Was talking to few of these guys and most only buying to sell on to Irish that they work with.

[paul_oshea]

ya a mate told me he had to go over the border from luxenbourg to get them, he could only get 60 euro tickets. He is in west block :S1. Said that the girl wasn't fussed about passport and he didnt have to show it in the end, but that he had to give all his details, but said he reckoned he would be able go back and get more.

He did also say not many of his irish colleagues had gone down yet....

[blobbyblob]

Well theres one of two things going on:

1. They are genuinely interested in getting behind their team and demand is high. In such a case were probably gonna have to be happy with what weve got - (i.e 8,500)

2) They are buying up the tickets in the hope that Paddy is coming with 29000 mates and they can fleece us.

Either way, it seems they wanna take us on in the stands as well as the field - Game on...

Looooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww......

[StretchRyan]

hey Paul,


Did your friend pick them up in Thionville or Metz.

I may have to pick up some for mates coming over and they wouldnt pay 80/100 for a ticket. i should have some from the FAI myself

[Dave McHugh]

Hiya lads,


Dave McHugh is my name, I'm a researcher with RTE Radio.

I have been following the away French match with interest, and would love to hear stories from fans who are not going via the FAI route to get their tickets (i.e. through French agencies etc...) and also what routes they are taking. It is for broadcast on Saturday morning.

Anyone interested can find out more details if they drop me a line on mchughd@rte.ie or phone 208 5244.

Thanks a mill lads!

Dave.

[paul_oshea]

carrefour - thionville

are they def still on sale at auchan, were you actually in auchan? he didnt seem to think they were....

[StretchRyan]

Yeah they were on sale at lunchtime so 2 hours ago. I picked up 2. Just in case our allocation is oversubscribed and i am one of the unlucky ones.

[paul_oshea]

You should have picked up 4!!!

[StretchRyan]

Only had a 200 eur on me and no cc.

I assumed i was gonna pick up 4 40 eur ones...

I will find out what the craic is tomorrow and if any cheaper ones
are gonna go on sale...

[Barna Bee]

what a bunch of cheese eating surrender monkies ....support for the french team my a$$, they are just in it for the cash folks ...as we expected ....

http://www.seatwave.com/ireland-vs-france-playoff-tickets/stade-de-france-tickets/18-november-2009/perf/270572

and they are starting to appear all over ebay and viagogo as well.

Bottom line is the irish will get as many tickets as we want and if needs be will turn that stadium green and embarrass our hosts for a second time..the only issue is they will be walking away with our cash on the double..

Hope we have the last laugh and leave these pr1cks behind while we enjoy South Africa

[paul_oshea]

nevermind :)

[Mcgrear]

Really disappointing to say the least. I wonder if the French released all of their allocation today. Somehow I doubt it.

[Schumi]

If there are that many trying to sell already, there should be enough around to get at reasonable prices at the game.

[Jicked]

Managed to get three €80 ones through a friend studying in France. Hopefully I can get tickets through the FAI and can flog these outside the ground or on here to Irish fans who don't get FAI tickets.

[blobbyblob]

what a bunch of cheese eating surrender monkies ....support for the french team my a$$, they are just in it for the cash folks ...as we expected ....

http://www.seatwave.com/ireland-vs-france-playoff-tickets/stade-de-france-tickets/18-november-2009/perf/270572

and they are starting to appear all over ebay and viagogo as well.

Bottom line is the irish will get as many tickets as we want and if needs be will turn that stadium green and embarrass our hosts for a second time..the only issue is they will be walking away with our cash on the double..

Hope we have the last laugh and leave these pr1cks behind while we enjoy South Africa

Must be a couple of hundred up there already. Mental. They are showing their true colours alright and they arent blue, white or red. Its all green baby!

[OneRedArmy]

So the touts won't have any tickets for the game in Croker so given we're so patriotic?

Or is that different?

[SuperDave]

Here Here... :)

Where? Where?

[sorry]

[PartySaint]

So the touts won't have any tickets for the game in Croker so given we're so patriotic?

Or is that different?

How dare you come on here with your sensible posting

[RonnieB]

Sold out according to a poster on ybig.

[Battery Rover]

Sold out according to a poster on ybig.

Soccerc so its a good source

[Jicked]

http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/breves2009/20091022_193905_les-49-500-billets-deja-vendus.html

Confirmed on l'equipe that the game is sold out. All 49,500 tickets that were on sale have been sold, with 8,500 going to the FAI and 20,000 kept aside for french clubs, sponsors etc.

Looks like there'll be a lot of people travelling without tickets, though I'm sure picking them up over there wont be much of a problem from touts.

[Newryrep]

Can somebody in the know advise who would get priority. A BB who doesnt travel and now wants a ticket or a Waiting Lister who has taken home tickets for the last 2 campaigns and travels to most of the away games . ?

Curious for obvious reasons

[Schumi]

Can somebody in the know advise who would get priority. A BB who doesnt travel and now wants a ticket or a Waiting Lister who has taken home tickets for the last 2 campaigns and travels to most of the away games . ?

Curious for obvious reasons

My understanding is that they are equal but I could be wrong.