Arabian Gulf Cup 2023 tickets Sale, Price
Tickets for the Arabian Gulf Cup, the first major football tournament hosted by Iraq in more than 40 years, went on sale on Saturday.
The January tournament in the southern city of Basra will see Saudi Arabia compete after their World Cup appearance in Qatar, where they delivered one of the competition’s surprises by beating eventual champions Argentina 2-1.
Qatar, which dropped out of the World Cup after the first round, will also compete, along with Yemen, Bahrain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and host country Iraq.
Holding the Cup is a challenge for Iraq, which has experienced decades of conflict since the ouster of authoritarian Saddam Hussein in a US-led invasion in 2003. The security situation remains fragile in much of the country.
“Today we are launching the sale of Gulf 25 tickets,” Adnan Dirjal, head of Iraq’s soccer federation, told reporters in Basra on Saturday.
Tickets for the January 6-19 competition range from $10 to $30.
Arabian Gulf Cup tickets Price
Tickets price range from $10 to $30
Iraqi authorities announced earlier this month that fans visiting Iraq for the competition will not have to pay visa fees. The country hopes to attract soccer fans from across the region, including Kuwait, whose border with Iraq is less than 30 miles (50 km) from Basra.
One of the city’s stadiums has a capacity for 65,000 spectators, while the second has a capacity for 30,000 fans and will be inaugurated on Monday with a friendly match between two clubs from the national leagues of Iraq and Kuwait. see also Arabian Gulf Cup 2023 Points Table, Standings.
Soccer’s governing body FIFA earlier this year lifted a ban on international competitions in Iraq that had been in place for years due to security concerns.
In January, Baghdad’s packed Al-Madina Stadium hosted a friendly between Iraq and Uganda, the first international match in the capital since 2013.
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