FIBA Records: 43,000 Tickets Sold
The Philippines will have a new FIBA Basketball World Cup Record after some insiders confirmed that the country will set a new attendance record at the Philippine Arena on Friday.
FIBA World Cup record is 32,616, but based on the data provided, 43,000 tickets have been sold, and only 3,000 are left at the box office.
The media team from various local, national, and international media, officials, staff, VIPs, and Teams is expected to fill in the number of around 4,000.
Organizers of the FIBA World Cup 2023 in the Philippines are eyeing an audience of over 50,000 attendees, which could bring another title and recognition for the Philippines.
The Gilas Pilipinas squad will kick its bid to earn a passage to the 2024 Paris Olympics, which the Nationals could achieve by becoming the highest Asian finisher in the World Cup against FIBA America’s qualifier Dominican Republic. If the Philippines could provide these numbers, it could be a remarkable FIBA record.
The Dominican Republic will showcase NBA All-Star and Minnesota Timberwolves big man Karl-Anthony Towns at 8:00 PM, Friday, at the 55,000-capacity Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan.
For those who cannot afford to go to the Philippine Arena, Filipinos and foreign supporters of the FIBA World Cup are encouraged to watch live games and make history as broadcast and streaming coverage of the World Meet from August 25 to September 10 will be live on free-to-air channels TV5 and One Sports.
The FIBA World Cup games will also be available through Cignal and Satelite pay-per-view channels, and streaming options include Pilipinas Live, Cignal Play, and Smart Livestream. FIBA Records attendance in the upcoming opening ceremony of the world’s most prestigious basketball competition is one of the targets of the Philippine organizers.
According to the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas on their official website, during the Group Phase of the competition, Cignal, the production team, will use 24 cameras to witness the game by millions of audiences worldwide.
In the Final Phase of the FIBA World Cup 2023, the production team will add six more cameras, making the Philippine hosting of the game the most comprehensive sports coverage the country has ever seen.
Prominent names in the sports broadcasting industry will grace the event. Veteran broadcasters Sev Sarmenta, Carlo Pamintuan, and Paolo Del Rosario will lend their voices to all ongoing actions and emotions. At the same time, seasoned analysts Andy Jao, Quinito Henson, Dominic Uy, Richard Del Rosario, and Norman Black will bring us the best basketball games in town.
The SBP also encourages everybody and calls all the fans who want to catch all the action right now, and they can avail of tickets for Smart Araneta Coliseum games at ticketnet.com.ph, as well as for SM Mall of Asia Arena games at smtickets.com.
The unprecedented FIBA Records attendance for the Philippines is a hard record to break in the successive World Cups.
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