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Tickets to FC Goa’s opening match go live

Robert Pirès and Zico during a FC Goa training session
Robert Pirès and Zico during a FC Goa training session

Picture courtesy Hero Indian Super League / IMG-Reliance

FC Goa fans will now be able to get their hands on tickets to the much awaited opening game between FC Goa and Chennaiyin FC to be held at the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Fatorda, Goa on October 15, 2014.

FC Goa has partnered with online ticketing portal BookMyShow.com for ticket sales. Tickets to the opening match as well as other home matches are now live on http://in.bookmyshow.com/sport/indian-super-league/fc-goa/.

The Hero Indian Super League, India’s unrivalled football championship is scheduled to kick off on 12th October 2014. FC Goa will play its first match against Chennaiyin FC at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Fatorda, Goa on October 15, 2014.

Tickets are priced at Rs.100 (North and South Stand), Rs.200 (East Stand) and Rs.300 (West Stand). Tickets at corporate boxes will be available at Rs.2500. Season Passes for home matches are also available. For every six home matches you buy, you would get one free

In addition to Book My Show, tickets can also be bought from a number of venues across the state, including Cafe Coffee Day outlets, The Mobile Shop stores and select Videocon outlets. Ticketing booths are being set up at the PJN Stadium Fatorda, FC Goa’s home ground from where tickets will be available from 9th October onwards.

Sports aficionados can buy tickets for FC Goa matches at Cafe Coffee Day outlets starting from 10th October at outlets located at, Bambolim (Kenkre Centre, NH 17); Colva (inside Silver Sand Resort, Colva Beach Road); Margao (inside Vasant Arcade, Comba); Margao (inside HPCL Kundre Service Station, Padre Miranda Road); Panjim (Arthur Viegas Building, next to Hotel Law Capital); Porvorim (143, NH 17, Porvorim, Bardez); Calangute (Inside Sunshine Beach Resort, Baga and Inside Vanessa Theatre Shopping Complex); Candolim (Fort Aguada Road), Mapusa (Feira Alta, Bardez, Near Mapusa Court Circle) and Palolem (inside Hotel Rishi Exotica, Palolem Beach Road).

Tickets will also be available at The Mobile Store outlets located at Bardez (Shop no 19&20, below hotel Orionnova, Cidade complex, opp Dominos, Porvorim,Bardez – 403521); Vasco (Shop no. 9,  ground floor, “Hotel Gladstone”Opposite Civil Court, Vasco Da Gama Goa, Vasco – 403802) and Panjim (Shop no 2, Ground Floor, Navelkar Trade Center, M.G road, Panjim – 403001).

FC Goa has already triggered a whirlwind of interest when it signed on a genuine Brazilian legend and three-time World Cupper Arthur Antunes Coimbra fondly known as Zico as its marquee coach. Zico has begun putting the FC Goa lads through the motions at team training sessions and is gearing for the first season of the ISL.