Day tickets now available
- High demand expected for match days for the host teams
- Up to 10% price advantage compared to single tickets
- Top service: Book hotels and train journeys between the venues directly on the official homepage
Cologne/Paris, September 27, 2016 – Day tickets for the 220 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship are now available, 2017 days before the first face-off. The 2017 IIHF World Championship is being jointly organized by Germany and France and will take place from May 5 to 21, 2017 in the Cologne “LANXESS arena” and the Paris “AccorHotels Arena”.
Germany will face the USA team on the evening of the first day of the World Cup in Cologne. On the remaining match days of the group phase, the German national ice hockey team has to deal with Sweden, Russia, Slovakia, Denmark, Italy and Latvia. Highly attractive and difficult opponents, but after a strong 2016 IIHF World Cup in Russia and the convincing Olympic qualification, the team of national coach Marco Sturm can be expected to do a lot at the home World Cup.
The day tickets offer a price advantage of up to 10% compared to later individual tickets. Day tickets include all games on a given game day in the package, but are issued individually for each game. With the day tickets there is a great opportunity to secure the best seats on the German team's match days.
Henner Ziegfeld, World Cup General Secretary, is expecting strong demand: "Our booking systems are set up for maximum demand. For many, this is the most important pre-sales phase, especially because the numerous people travelling from out of town Fans like to come to experience all the games of a complete World Championship day. At previous IIHF World Championships, the home team's games were often sold out shortly after the start of advance sales of day tickets. We are therefore also preparing ourselves for the fact that the days with the preliminary round games of the German team in Cologne and the games of the final round with day tickets on sale will sell out quickly."
In fact, demand has already been high during the pre-sale of multi-day packages. There are now just under 18.500 tickets left for each of the German team's preliminary round matches in Cologne's "LANXESS arena", which has a capacity of 10.000 spectators, and only around 9.000 tickets for each of the semi-finals and the final day. For the preliminary round match days with co-host France in Paris, with a capacity of 14.500 seats, there are still around 8.500 tickets available, and for the quarter-finals there are only around 7.500. If they qualify, Germany will definitely play their quarter-finals in Cologne and France in Paris.
The schedule of the 2017 IIHF World Championship can be found here www.iihfworlds2017.com under “Games”. World Cup tickets are available:
- Online via iihfworlds2017.com and on www.facebook.com/iihfhockey
- By telephone on +49 (0)1806 2017 01 (0,20 €/call incl. VAT from landline networks, max. 0,60 €/call incl. VAT from mobile networks // Monday-Friday 10.00 a.m. – 19.00 p.m. and Saturday from 12.00:19.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.)
A completely new service at the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships has been developed by the World Cup organizers specifically for travelers Fans Set up: From now on, in addition to admission tickets, you can also purchase accommodation for Cologne and Paris as well as tickets for the three-hour train journey between the two World Cup cities on the Thalys high-speed train directly on the official homepage www.iihfworlds2017.com can be booked using the “Hotels” and “Travel” buttons.
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