No spectators?: FIFA offers a wild explanation for thousands of empty seats:
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FIFA Offers Unusual Explanation for Empty World Cup SeatsAt the Guadalajara match, 44,985 attendees were counted despite thousands of seats remaining visibly unoccupied.
- FIFA justifies attendance figures based on scanned tickets and actual presence inside the stadium.
- Empty seats result from spectators moving around stadium concourses rather than staying in assigned spots.
- The World Cup game in Guadalajara reported a near-capacity crowd of 44,985 out of 45,664 seats.
- More than 500 million ticket requests were recorded before the tournament, yet tickets remain for smaller matches.
Please note that at the Guadalajara match, several spectators with valid tickets were observed in the concourses and other areas of the stadium, rather than remaining in their assigned seats for the entire match.— FIFA, in a statement accompanying the explanation of ticketing data
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