{"id":3016,"date":"2022-11-21T07:13:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T15:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/21\/fifa-ticketing-app-crashes-causing-fans-to-miss-start-of-england-vs-iran-game\/"},"modified":"2022-11-21T07:13:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T15:13:20","slug":"fifa-ticketing-app-crashes-causing-fans-to-miss-start-of-england-vs-iran-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/21\/fifa-ticketing-app-crashes-causing-fans-to-miss-start-of-england-vs-iran-game\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Ticketing app crashes causing fans to miss start of England vs Iran game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<p class=\"standfirst\">Fans attempting to access Khalifa International Stadium in Doha for this afternoon\u2019s World Cup match between England and Iran were left waiting outside for hours, after the FIFA Ticketing app crashed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/news\/england-fans-risk-missing-world-28544798\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> of thousands of fans queueing for printed tickets in a \u2018resolution queue\u2019 after the mobile app suffered issues.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Supporters had said that tickets had disappeared from their mobile app, with users that had logged out in the last 24 hours unable to log back in.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The FIFA World Cup in Qatar kicked off yesterday (Sunday) with a match between the hosts and Ecuador. The tournament will run until December 18.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xZIXlJIUHv\">pic.twitter.com\/xZIXlJIUHv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIFA Media (@fifamedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fifamedia\/status\/1594675811696742400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A statement from FIFA read: \u201cSome spectators are currently experiencing an issue with accessing their tickets via the FIFA Ticketing app. FIFA is working on solving the issue. In the meantime, fans who are not able to access their mobile tickets should check the email accounts they used to register with the Ticketing app for further instructions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn case fans cannot access their email accounts, the stadium\u2019s Ticket Resolution Point will be able to support. We thank fans for their understanding as we work to fix the issue as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issue resulted in hundreds of fans missing the start of the match.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One fan responded to FIFA\u2019s statement to say that they were still unable to access the app at around 2:30pm GMT and were due to go to the Wales game this evening, which is set to kick off at 7pm GMT (10pm local time). The user also added that they had to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisdg88\/status\/1594700417023213568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sit on a step<\/a>\u00a0to watch England vs Iran, as fans were hurried through one gate.<\/p>\n<p>England went on to win the match 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div class=\"tax-cat-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-cat\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Filed under<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Awards<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Tags<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Stadiums<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/11\/21\/fifa-ticketing-app-crashes-causing-fans-to-miss-start-of-england-vs-iran-game\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Fans attempting to access Khalifa International Stadium in Doha for this afternoon\u2019s World Cup match between England and Iran were left waiting outside for hours, after the FIFA Ticketing app crashed.\u00a0 There were reports of thousands of fans queueing for printed tickets in a \u2018resolution queue\u2019 after the mobile app suffered issues.\u00a0 Supporters had &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066,578,736,847,3415,3416,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doha","category-england","category-fifa","category-fifa-world-cup-qatar","category-iran","category-khalifa-international-stadium","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}