Free 50,000 tickets for workers

By way of thanks for their unstinting
efforts in helping to make the 2014 FIFA
World Cup Brazil™ a reality, FIFA has
announced that it will hand out nearly
50,000 tickets to workers involved in
the construction and refurbishment of
the tournament’s 12 stadiums. The
announcement was made at a press
conference following this Thursday’s
Brazil 2014 Local Organising Committee
(LOC) management board meeting at
the Estadio Maracana.
The tickets, all of them Category 4, will
be distributed to the construction
companies responsible for carrying out
work at the stadiums, who will then
hand them out to the workers. The
constructors are free to decide the
distribution criteria and the number of
tickets to be allocated to each worker.
The tickets are for all the first-round
games with the exception of the
Opening Match between Brazil and
Croatia on 12 June in Sao Paulo.
As agreed with the constructors, tickets
were allocated in accordance with the
final number of workers involved in the
construction of each stadium, the
number of tickets per stadium being
proportional to the percentage of
workers employed there.
The tickets will be distributed in the
middle of May and can only be collected
by a representative appointed by each
constructor. The companies will in turn
hand out the tickets to their workers,
who will not be required to collect them
from the Brazil 2014 Ticket Distribution
Centres.
Ticket sales
More than 2.56 million tickets have
been sold for Brazil 2014 to date. Some
295,387 of those tickets have been sold
in the current sales phase, which comes
to a close on 1 April at 7:00 Brasilia time
(12:00 CET). The next phase begins on
15 April at 7:00 Brasilia time (12:00
CET).
Ticket Distribution Centres will open to
the public in the 12 Host Cities on 18
April, and will initially remain open on
weekends only. Nearly 540,000 tickets
will be made available for collection
from the start of May. Fans who
selected the option of picking up their
tickets at these centres will be able to
do so then.
In collecting their tickets, fans eligible
for concessions (over 60s, students,
recipients of the Bolsa Familia family
grant and people with disabilities) must
present documentation proving said
entitlement.