MUNICH – Since Friday morning at 9:00, tickets for the 2010 IIHF World Championship are on sale and the response on this first day exceeded all expectations.
Within the first six hours, already 15,000 tickets for the opening game in the VELTINS-Arena of Schalke in Gelsenkirchen were sold. People formed long queues in front of the ticket shops; call centre and internet server were even partly congested.
"We did expect high demand on the first day, but what we experienced today, was exceeding all our expectations. At noon we decided to enhance the capacities on all our sales channels," says Thomas Freyer, responsible for tickets sales in the 2010 World Championship Organizing Committee. Freyer also expressed his excitement about the remarkable demand for package offers featuring the games in Cologne and Mannheim.
Thus, 462 days before the first face-off, already 20 percent of the tickets for the opening game are gone or in other words: only 60.000 Ticket to go until the world record. This definitely means to get going for tickets!
Tickets for the opening game and a variety of attractive package offers for the games in Cologne and Mannheim can be purchased as follows:
- Internet: www.iihfworlds2010.com
- Ticket-Hotline +49 621 18 19 0 333 (usual fees for calls into German landline network)
- On-site Ticket Shops of LANXESS Arena (Cologne), SAP ARENA (Mannheim) and VELTINS-Arena (Gelsenkirchen)
The 2010 IIHF World Championship takes places between May 7 and May 23, 2010, in the LANXESS Arena in Cologne, the SAP Arena in Mannheim and the VELTINS-Arena in Gelsenkirchen. The Organizing Committee headed by President Uwe Harnos and General Secretary Franz Reindl, is awaiting 500,000 spectators in 56 World Championship games of the world's 16 best hockey nations. Approximately 1,000 accredited journalists are expected, around 190 involved TV stations will broadcast from Germany into more than 100 countries. Some 800 million viewers worldwide will follow the 2010 IIHF World Championship on TV.
