GREEN BAY – About 15% of original tickets remain for the Bayern Munich-Manchester City soccer match at Lambeau Field, the Green Bay Packers said Thursday.
The exhibition match between Europe's premier professional soccer clubs is scheduled for 6 p.m. July 23. It will be the first professional soccer match held in Lambeau Field.
Tickets went on sale May 5 to Packers season ticket holders and May 6 to the general public at the Ticketmaster website. Standard tickets were listed between $35 and $160, but those closest to the field were amore expensive. Those seats are in what Ticketmaster calls its Official Platinum category, which uses market-based pricing.
On Thursday, the remaining Official Platinum seats, some of which were directly behind the team benches, ranged from $80 to $950.
The average of lowest-cost tickets on the secondary market, based on checking seven marketplaces, was $69.
Manchester City (29-6-3, 93 points) cemented its place among English Premier League elite on May 22 by capturing its fourth title in five years, rallying from a two-goal deficit to defeat Aston Villa 3-2 in the closing moments of the final match of the 2021-22 Premier League season at Etihad Stadium. Meanwhile, FC Bayern Munich (24-5-5, 77 points) captured its record-breaking 10th consecutive Bundesliga title earlier this season.
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The friendly — soccer's term for an exhibition match — is the second time Bayern and Man City will meet on American soil. They played in an International Champions Cup match on July 28, 2018, when Man City downed Bayern Munich 3-2 at Miami's Hard Rock Stadium.
The weekend of the game will kick off a busy time in Green Bay. The Packers will hold their annual shareholders' meeting on Monday, July 25, and open training camp for the 2022 season that week as well. The week-long EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh also begins on that Monday. That event drew more than 600,000 visitors in 2021, according to EAA, Packers training camp draws about 90,000 fans from around the world.
In downtown Green Bay, the annual Kitsunekon convention, an event for lovers of anime and gaming, claimed hotel rooms for the weekend.
"We are pretty full that weekend," said Brad Toll, president and CEO of Discover Green Bay. "We had a lot of rooms full already downtown before soccer was announced. The impact of this one is going to go all over northeast Wisconsin, and potentially Madison and Milwaukee."
Which is to say that hotel rooms already are at a premium, when you can find them, going for $300 a night and more. A random check of hotel websites showed a number of them with no availability for that weekend.
A check of Airbnb listings for that weekend showed 29 listings, some in the Fox Valley, that were going for $103 a night for a private room in Brillion to $3,652 a night for a seven-bed house in Neenah.
Toll said there are about 700 Airbnb providers in the region.
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GREEN BAY – Organizers say about 70,000 tickets have been sold for the Bayern Munich-Manchester City soccer match at Lambeau Field.
The exhibition match against two of the world's best soccer clubs is scheduled for 6 p.m. July 23 on the home field of the Green Bay Packers.
The match is not a sell-out. Lambeau Field's capacity is 81,441. The Packers averaged 77,991 attendance during the 2021 regular season.
Seats are available around the stadium. The biggest grouping of unsold seats are among the lower-priced, in the upper rows of the Lambeau Field bowl on the north end. Those seats sell for $75.
According to Ticketmaster, some $65 seats also are available. The most expensive remaining tickets are $795.
The average of the lowest prices on the secondary market, based on four websites, is $62.
Bayern-Man City will be the first professional soccer match held at Lambeau Field.
Manchester City (29-6-3, 93 points) won England's Premier League title on the final day of the season with a rally from two down to defeat Aston Villa 3-2, keeping them one point ahead of second-place Liverpool. It was Man City's fourth title in five years.
Bayern Munich (24-5-5, 77 points) had less difficulty winning the Bundesliga, finishing eight points ahead of Dortmund. It was Bayern's record-breaking 10th consecutive Bundesliga title.
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The weekend of the game will kick off a busy time in Green Bay. The Green Bay Packers will hold their annual shareholders' meeting on Monday, July 25, and open training camp for the 2022 season on Wednesday, July 27, with the first of 12 public practices, which end Aug. 17.
Traditionally, training camp drew 90,000 visitors to Green Bay. There was no public training camp in 2020 because of the COVID pandemic. Last year's training camp was open to the public, but with restrictions. Training camp this year will be more along the lines of the pre-COVID camps, including the return of players riding kids' bicycles from Lambeau Field to the Don Hutson/Ray Nitschke practice fields.
The week-long EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh also begins on that Monday. That event drew more than 600,000 visitors in 2021, according to EAA.
The annual Kitsunekon convention, an event for lovers of anime and gaming, claimed many downtown Green Bay hotel rooms for the weekend of July 22-24.
Contact Richard Ryman at (920) 431-8342 or . Follow him on Twitter at @RichRymanPG, on Instagram at @rrymanPG or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RichardRymanPG/.