JAKARTA - PSSI General Chairperson (Ketum), Erick Thohir, continues to approach the Australian Football Federation ahead of the visit from the Indonesian national team to Sydney. The approach was carried out for the certainty of the ticket quota for Garuda supporters.
The Indonesian national team will visit Australia to continue the 2026 World Cup Qualification Third Round match. The match will take place at the Sydney Football Stadium on March 20, 2025.
Given the importance of this match as one of the opportunities to qualify for the Indonesian national team to qualify for the 2026 World Cup finals, the interest of Red-White supporters is confirmed to be booming. Therefore, PSSI is trying to ensure the ticket quota for supporters.
"We continue to encourage how Australians can help also open access to ticket sales (for Indonesian national team supporters)."
"Indeed, their system was sold in part first, God willing, it will be reopened later," said Erick Thohir in his statement quoted Monday, March 3, 2025.
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Erick Thohir said that supporters were very enthusiastic about welcoming every match of the Indonesian national team. Therefore, he also thanked the relentless support given to the Garuda Squad.
"So, the interest is extraordinary. Thank you for this indicating that we are a big nation. So, if our supporters come, the hosts will also say (troubles)," he said.
"We from PSSI are helping optimally, but of course all of that has rules from the Australian committee. We continue to encourage it because we know the interest is extraordinary," he said again.
Tickets for the Australian vs Indonesia match were actually sold out on February 11, 2025. However, then the Australians again released additional tickets that could be re-ordered in early March 2025.
For the guest team's support quota, the Australians provide about five percent of the total stadium capacity. If you look at the Sydney Football Stadium with a maximum capacity of 42 thousand spectators, that means there will be around 4.2 thousand seats provided for Garuda Squad supporters.
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