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This has also been reflected in ticket sales, where within a 4-hour timeframe, a total of 22,000 tickets were sold. On Friday, the Albanian Football Federation (FSHF) announced that the tickets were on sale, and that was enough to have thousands of fans waiting in line to secure their own.
The high demand caused occasional issues in the system, with fans continuing to wait. In the early hours of Saturday morning, all the tickets had been sold, in record time, compared to major national teams.
However, here is where a problem arises: the black market, which has started to inflate ticket prices several times higher. Euronews Albania conducted an observation on online platforms, where notices for ticket sales at prices much higher than 200 euros or even more are not uncommon. At this point, a citizen who wants to be in the stands at Air Albania must pay up to 10 times more for a ticket.
Albania has three remaining matches on the road to Euro 2024, against the Czech Republic, Moldova, and the Faroe Islands.