Despite being one of the smaller centres, the Fifa Fan Fest in Port Elizabeth has attracted the third most visitors during the first two weeks of the World Cup.
Of the 10 official sites countrywide – one for each host city – only those in Durban and Cape Town had outperformed the one in PE.
Despite being one of the smaller centres, the Fifa Fan Fest in Port Elizabeth has attracted the third most visitors during the first two weeks of the World Cup.
Of the 10 official sites countrywide – one for each host city – only those in Durban and Cape Town had outperformed the one in PE.
According to Fifa totals, the parks in Sandton and Soweto ranked fourth an fifth respectively. The Fan Fest concept originated in Korea in 2002 and was expanded on in Germany four years later to what we currently have in South Africa.
The idea is to give people an opportunity to view the games when the stadium is full, with entertainment between matches.
Attendance in the Friendly City peaked at 29 000 on the opening day with the lowest daily total around 2 500.
Bafana Bafana’s games were the best attended with just over 16 000 people watching their opening effort against Mexico, 10 500 the match against Uruguay and 13 000 their victory over France.
In the first two weeks, the 20 000 mark was breached twice, 10 000 four times and only four days had fewer than 5 000 attendees.
