Football Kenya Federation has cleared the air over the number of tickets sold during Harambee Stars’ match against Gabon, bringing to the fore the millions generated.
Football Kenya Federation (FKF) has revealed the true number of tickets sold at Nyayo Stadium during Kenya’s 2026 World Cup qualifier against Gabon on Sunday.
Harambee Stars faced Gabon in front of a capacity crowd, in what had been reported as a sold-out stadium, but it has now been confirmed that the tickets sold were nowhere near the 22,900 that was initially reported.
FKF has confirmed that the sitting capacity at Nyayo Stadium is now 22,000, following the installation of seats, and as per safety regulations from both FIFA and CAF, all seats cannot be sold.
“As per CAF regulations, you are not allowed to sell 100 percent of the seats, you are supposed to sell slightly less than that number,” FKF president Hussein Mohammed told the media on Tuesday.
Gabon captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had all good things to say about Kenyans after scoring twice to all but end Harambee Stars’ World Cup qualification hopes.
“For regular seats, we had 15,968. We stopped selling tickets at these numbers so any extra was an overflow and that happened when we had an issue on gate number eight and two.
“We had VIP tickets 1,331, car park slots were 329 and for the VVIP area, we had 107. So, total tickets sold were 17,735 and obviously there was a bit of an overflow,” added Mohammed, who confirmed that there were a big number of non-ticket holders inside the stadium.
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From the figures provided by the FKF boss, regular tickets, which were retailing at Ksh300, fetched Ksh4,790,400, VIP generating Ksh1,331,000, with each going for Ksh1,000, while VVIP, which were being sold for 10,000, raked in Ksh1,070,000.
Parking charges at the match venue were Ksh300, meaning the 329 slots generated Ksh98,700, bringing the total figure to Ksh7,290,100 from the match on Sunday.
Mohammed, however, mentioned that most of the VVIP tickets were not sold as they went to invited guests, which means the federation generated just under Ksh7 million from the match.
The security breach, however, watered down what was a good day for Kenyan football and could land FKF in trouble given the CAF regulations that do not allow full to the brim stadiums as they pose a major security risk.
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