– Are you going to Portugal? – I recently asked a friend who wanted to go with his son to Portugal. game Polish national team. – A Cristiano Ronaldo He plays and will come? – I heard. – He plays and should come. He has even scored goals for Portugal recently – I replied. – Well, we have to – replied my friend and asked: what about the tickets? And here is the problem looks like different, because tickets for the most crowded and cheapest family sectors for national team matches are always very difficult to buy, and to put it bluntly – sometimes it borders on a miracle. On Tuesday I tried to buy a ticket for Portugal, with whom we will play at the National Stadium on October 12.
“You have been placed in a waiting line”
Ticket sales started on Tuesday, September 10 at 10:00. However, this was not an open sale, but a pre-sale addressed to customers of one of the PZPN sponsors. Tickets could be purchased by users of the InPost Fresh application, the offer was also advertised in the regular InPost application. The condition was to have the application and express marketing consent in it. Thanks to this, at 10:00, after clicking on a special banner, it was possible to obtain a code that gave the possibility of buying tickets in advance on the Łączy Nas Piłka website.
There were two problems here. It was still difficult to generate a code in the application a little after 10 a.m. I came across the message: “Oops, something went wrong.” There must have been a large number of people trying to get a code at the same time. After a few minutes and clicking the “generate code” board again, the word “goool” finally appeared and the access code was displayed.
The problem is that this code was of little use. InPost had previously informed that the ticket purchase would be made through the official PZPN ticket sales portal, Łączy nas Piłka. To buy a ticket there, you need to create an account. Of course, you can do this in advance, at any time. After displaying the code in the application, InPost also informed that a link to the ticket purchase page will be sent to the provided email address. The link did not come to me, but it was known that you still have to go and log in to the main page of the Łączy nas Piłka portal and open the “Buy Ticket” tab located at the top of the portal. That's what I did.
Knowing this and the problems with buying a ticket as soon as sales for the more attractive national team matches open, I opened the ticket purchase page earlier, before 9:00. But even then, the page would not display for a while, showing the error “502 Bad Gateway” and only after one attempt did the portal start working and the following message appeared:
“Dear fan, due to the high level of interest in purchasing tickets, you have now been placed on a waiting list.”
Standing in the virtual queue took… I don't know how long yet, because after three hours of waiting, at the time of publication of this article, the queue message was still active and nothing had happened.
Let's add that attempts to enter the tab on the website to buy tickets, which I made as a test on another device well after 11:00, did not display either the page or the waiting queue, only an error message. Rumors speak of a bot attack on the PZN servers. The match with the participation of Cristiano Ronaldo this is an opportunity for so-called horsemen to buy tickets at normal prices and sell them at a large markup.
The family sector is unconquered
If the cheapest ticket for a national team match at the PGE National Stadium usually costs PLN 120 (category III), and second and first category tickets are PLN 180 and PLN 240 respectively, then an entry card for family sectors costs PLN 100 for a guardian and PLN 60 for a child under 12. Therefore, you can go to a match in a two-person team for PLN 160 and get good seats behind the goals in the sector close to the pitch. However, getting such a ticket is a “mission impossible” task. The issue with these family sectors on the national team is not resolved in a family-friendly way.
Of the 68 sectors at the National Stadium where tickets for Polish matches can be purchased, only four are family sectors. As we have established, there are fewer than 2.7 thousand seats. In a facility that usually seats 55 thousand people – this is very few.
However, according to our information, it will also be possible to apply for some tickets for family sectors from September 17, when the open sale by the association will start. It will certainly be difficult to get family tickets then, but any other tickets after waiting in the queue should be possible to buy. Only a few thousand tickets have been allocated for Tuesday's pre-sale, so several dozen thousand tickets will be waiting for buyers.
On September 12, the pre-sale of tickets for the match with Croatia, which will take place on October 15, three days after the match with Portugal, will also start. On September 19, the PZPN will conduct the sale of entry tickets for this match for everyone. fans. Tickets can be purchased at the following address: bilety.laczynaspilka.pl