Bangladesh v Hong Kong match tickets available on September 28

The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) confirmed today that tickets for Bangladesh's AFC Asian Cup Qualifier against Hong Kong will go on sale from September 28 through the online platform quicket.me.

The match is scheduled for October 9 at the National Stadium at 8:00pm. England-born Hamza Choudhury and Canadian midfielder Shamit Shome are set to feature for Bangladesh in the match.

"We have already announced the ticketing partner, quicket.me, after evaluating their load test. They can handle as many as one lakh ticket trades at a time, although our supply is much smaller," BFF tournament committee co-chairman Tajwar Awal told reporters after a meeting at the BFF House.

Awal said the exact time for ticket sales would be announced by the federation's marketing committee, with a countdown to be posted on the BFF's official Facebook page.

"There will be no favoritism or partiality in online ticket selling," Awal assured, while adding that the option of limited offline sales remained under consideration by the BFF executive committee.

According to Awal, gallery tickets -- nearly 18,000 in number -- will be priced at the same level as the Bangladesh-Singapore qualifier held in June. Prices for the remaining 4,000-plus seats will be fixed by the marketing committee.

Awal anticipated a quick sell-out of gallery tickets given the high demand for the Hong Kong match. He also revealed that a Tk 10 lakh compensation clause had been included in the agreement with quicket.me should the website crash during sales.

Meanwhile, BFF is set to finalise its event partner, with the federation placing conditions related to water, food, entry, and exit facilities to avoid the issues experienced during the Bangladesh-Singapore match.

"We want strong security this time and will meet the GOC tomorrow to request army deployment around the stadium, like what was done during the Bangladesh-Pakistan cricket series," Awal said.

As in the previous match, a pre-match show for fans is also planned.