FAI explore Barca Fan Zone option

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The Football Association of Ireland have announced that supporters who purchase tickets for the Armenia match on October 11 will be given the right to buy home leg tickets should the Republic of Ireland enter the Euro 2012 play-offs.

Tickets for the decisive Euro 2012 qualifier match against Armenia are already on sale through www.fai.ie. €10 children's tickets are available in all General Admission areas of Aviva Stadium. Tickets are also available through ticketmaster.ie and from Wednesday, September 14 they will be available in Carrolls, Westmoreland St, Dublin.

In relation to the away match in Andorra, capacity in the Estadi Comunal will be extremely limited. The Association is currently looking at the most fair system of distributing the very small number of available tickets to loyal supporters. Details of this will be announced in due course once we have exhausted all avenues to try increase the ticket allocation with the Andorran FA.

To accommodate fans who had made travel arrangements prior to the UEFA decision to host the game in Andorra, the FAI and its sponsors are also researching a big screen and fan zone in Barcelona. The Andorran authorities have indicated that they are advising against anyone travelling to Andorra without tickets for the match.

To gage interest in this fan zone in Barcelona, the Association has opened a webpage where supporters can register their interest on www.fai.ie/barcelona.

Further information on a potential fan zone in Barcelona and on the system for determining which loyal supporters obtain the very limited number of tickets available in Andorra will be communicated as soon as it becomes available on www.fai.ie.