World Cup 2006

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The FIFA World Cup 2006 will be held in Germany between June 9, 2006 and July 9, 2006.

Contents 1 Understand 2 Tickets 3 Get around 4 Venues 5 Do 6 Buy 7 Eat 8 Drink 9 Sleep 9.1 Berlin 9.2 Munich 9.3 Cologne 9.4 Frankfurt (am Main) 9.5 Hamburg 9.6 Hanover 10 Get out 11 External links

Understand

Tickets

Regular tickets come in four categories (1-4), with category 1 being the best pitchside seats (best views) and category 4 being for those behind the goals (worst views). Prices start from €35 (group games, category 4) and go up to 600€ (final, category 1). See the FIFA site for ticket details. The third sales period ended at midnight on Sunday, 15 January 2006. A ballot will be made of all applications received on 31 January. The fourth sales period is scheduled to start on 15 February.

Get around

See the Germany article for general details. Deutsche Bahn [1] are running some special deals for World Cup fans. The Weltmeister-Ticket enables you to travel from wherever you are staying in Germany to your match on second class trains, but including the fast ICE trains, as well as night trains with a supplement fee. It is only valid in conjuction with a valid World Cup ticket and costs, depending on the length of the journey, €54 (up to 200 km), €74 (from 201 - 350 km), or €90 (above 351 km) -- note that the prices reflect the years that Germany has won the World Cup. The Weltmeister-Pass is for anyone planning to travel a lot during the World Cup. No World Cup ticket is needed, and it is valid for the five weeks of the World Cup (from 7 June to 11 July 2006). It costs €349 for 2nd class travel and €549 for 1st class for unlimited journeys, including night trains with a supplement fee.

Venues

The host cities will be Berlin, Leipzig, Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Dortmund, Hannover, Hamburg, Kaiserslautern, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, and Gelsenkirchen.

As of now, only the opening games that will eventually eliminate sixteen of the thirty-two teams are scheduled and set. The official match schedule is available here.

Do

Buy

World Cup merchandise is already on sale:

• German flags, face paint
• GOLEO VI, the loveable lion mascot
• Official replica soccer ball

Eat

See Germany article.

Drink

See Germany article.

Sleep

Berlin

Please see the Sleep section in the Berlin article

Munich

Please see the Sleep section in the Munich article

Cologne

Please see the Sleep section in the Cologne article

Frankfurt (am Main)

Please see the Sleep section in the Frankfurt article

Hamburg

Please see the Sleep section in the Hamburg article

Hanover

Please see the Sleep section in the Hanover article

Get out

• Prague, the Czech Republic's capital is easily accessible from Munich.
• Warsaw, Poland is a several hour train ride from Berlin's Ostbahnhof train station.
• Brussels can be reached from Cologne in a few hours on a high speed train.
• Salzburg (city), Austria can be reached from Munich.
• Basel, Zürich and Bern are easily reachable from Germany by Train in around 2-3 hours (Stuttgart, Munich) or 3-4 hours (Dortmund). In those cities the games of EM 2008 will be held, so if you like to have a look around the new stadiums in Bern or Basel, they are usually opened for public when there are no games held there.

External links

• FIFA World Cup 2006

WikiPedia:Football World Cup 2006

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