International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Secretary General Andreas Zagklis said the prices of some tickets for 2023 World Cup matches were too high.
The tournament takes place in Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines. On Sunday, the Serbian national team will face the German team in the final match, the match will start at 15:40 Moscow time. Watch the live broadcast on the channel, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
— Ticket prices were determined by the local organizing committee, but they were verified by FIBA, so we provide our input. We were part of this process. In some categories it was not successful, I can say that
I was in the arena several times, the first, fourth and fifth levels were full, but the second and third were not. This is where you immediately see the impact of pricing. And this happened several times, so perhaps we can say that the tickets for the second and third tier were more expensive than the acceptable price in the market.
At the same time, when a local team is playing, it is also difficult to sell tickets for a match taking place simultaneously. Because those who are not there will watch their national team on television or on their phone. Indeed, we would like the attendance here in Manila to be a little higher. Overall we are happy with how everything went.
But yes, some prize categories were not correct before the start of the tournament, we need to revise them to be successful in the future,” basketnews.com quoted Zagklis as saying.
Source : MatchTV
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