Rush for tickets for Lions XII opener against Kelantan
Look no further for signs that Singapore's much-awaited return to Malaysia Cup football after 17 year is going to be a hot-ticket item.
A snaking queue of about 300 people were already in line when tickets for next Tuesday's opener between Lions XII and MSL side Kelantan went on sale at noon at the Jalan Besar Stadium on Friday.
19-year-old student Mohammad Faisal, one of the first few people in line, told Yahoo! Singapore, "I'm quite happy I decided to come early. I never really expected such a long queue on the first day, especially since it's a working day."
Yahoo! Singapore understands that fans started queuing as early 8:30am, and ticket sales will go on until match day itself on Tuesday.
The Jalan Besar Stadium, which will host Singapore's opening match in the Malaysian Super League, has a usual capacity of about 6,000 but temporary stands have increased the ground capacity to 8,000.
"I think it's better that way, more supporters can watch the games, and tickets won't sell out so fast either. Although I think 8,000 is still considered small compared to the Malaysian ones, the 2,000 more seats will definitely improve the atmosphere here," said 48-year-old operations manager, Peter Lim.
The Lions XII take on Kelantan on Tuesday, 10 January at the Jalan Besar Stadium at 7:45pm. Tickets are going for S$12 (adult grandstand), S$7 (adult gallery and the gallery of the King George's Stand). Child, primary, secondary, ITE, JC students and senior citizens can get the tickets at a concessionary price of S$2 (gallery).
Each person is entitled to purchase four tickets upon showing their NRIC at the sales counter.
At the end of Friday, when the tickets for the Kelantan game were released, FAS announced that a total 4,534 tickets have been sold -- more than half the tickets available.
