Commission A of the Surabaya City DPRD encourages companies to distribute corporate social responsibility (CSR) to help residents buy tickets to watch the U-17 World Cup at the Gelora Bung Tomo Stadium (GBT), which will take place starting November 10.
“We received information that the tickets sold by FIFA for the U-17 World Cup are expensive,” said Arif Fathoni, Chair of Commission A for Government Affairs of the Surabaya DPRD in his statement, Thursday (2/11/2023) as reported Between.
Therefore, he asked sub-district heads whose areas have industrial areas to encourage business actors to distribute CSR in the form of purchasing tickets to watch the U-17 World Cup, to residents who have not been economically fortunate.
This, he said, was done so that Surabaya residents would not lose the opportunity and chance to watch the U-17 World Cup live at the GBT Stadium.
“This is also part of contributing to helping residents who are economically disadvantaged in purchasing tickets,” he said.
Apart from that, he hopes that all offices in the local city government will put up attributes to brighten up the U-17 World Cup, which will take place from 10 November to 2 December.
“We hope that sub-district and sub-district offices in Surabaya will also install attributes to celebrate the U-17 World Cup,” he said.
PSSI and FIFA have released ticket prices to watch the 2023 U-17 World Cup match. The opening match will be held on November 10.
Gelora Bung Tomo Stadium (Surabaya), Manahan Stadium (Solo), Si Jalak Harupat Stadium (Bandung), and Jakarta International Stadium (Jakarta) will be the venues for U-17 national team matches from 24 countries.
In the opening match, the Indonesian U-17 national team is scheduled to play Ecuador at the Gelora Bung Tomo Stadium on Friday (10/11/2023).
There are at least two ticket price categories set by PSSI and FIFA for the U-17 World Cup. In the opening match, category one ticket prices are IDR 800,000 for two people and category two are IDR 400,000 per two people.
Then the price of category one tickets for group phase matches featuring the Indonesian national team is charged at IDR 400,000 per two people and category two is set at IDR 160,000 per two people.
Furthermore, for the group phase of matches other than the Indonesian national team, the price given by PSSI for category one is IDR 175,000 per two people and for the second category is IDR 105,000 per two people.
Ticket prices for the 2023 U-17 World Cup will also increase according to the match schedule. In the semifinal round, the prices given will be more expensive than in the group phase, and so on. (ant/mel/bil/ipg)
