Ticket sales for the Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place in Kyiv in May, open this week.
The National Broadcasting Company of Ukraine, which is organizing Eurovision in Kyiv, announced that tickets are about to go on sale, but didn’t specify the exact date.
The price will range from 40 to 200 euros for most tickets. For those ready to spend more for some extra comfort, there will be “VIP tickets” that will cost more than 200 euros.
Ukrainian ticket agency Concert.ua has been chosen as the distributor of the Eurovision tickets. Once sales begin, the tickets will be available online at www.concert.ua.
The Kyiv International Exhibition Center is the main venue for this year’s Eurovision contest . It can accommodate up to 10,000 people, with 7,000 seats and standing space for 3,000 people.
Pavlo Hrytsak, the deputy general director of the National Broadcasting Company of Ukraine, said in an interview with Hromadske TV that the organizers expect to make more than Hr 60 million ($2.2 million) from ticket sales.
Tickets will be on sale for nine Eurovision shows – six rehearsals and three live shows, including two semifinals and one final. Tickets will be available for the following shows (Kyiv time):
Semifinal 1 Jury show. May 8. 9 p.m.
Semifinal 1 Dress rehearsal. May 9. 3 p.m.
Semifinal 1 Live broadcast. May 9. 9 p.m.
Semifinal 2 Jury show. May 10. 9 p.m.
Semifinal 2 Dress rehearsal. May 11. 3 p.m.
Semifinal 2 Live broadcast. May 11. 9 p.m.
Grand Final Jury show. May 12. 9 p.m.
Grand Final Dress rehearsal. May 13. 3 p.m.
Grand Final Live Show. May 13. 9 p.m.
The organizers expect nearly 20,000 Eurovision fans to visit Kyiv in May for Eurovision.
A number of tickets will be reserved for members of official Eurovision fan clubs around the world. These will mainly be standing tickets – the fans will be standing in a special fan zone right next to the stage. The fan tickets will be sold through the official Eurovision fan clubs.
Compared to previous years, the Eurovision ticket sales in Ukraine will start one or two months later. In Sweden, the 2016 Eurovision host country, ticket sales started in November 2015. Tickets then ranged in price from 11 to 280 euros.
The price of the Eurovision 2017 tickets is still a matter of discussion with the Eurovision Broadcasting Union, Hrytsak says. He insists that the tickets for the contest in Ukraine can’t cost as much as in Europe due to the fact that the purchasing capacity of Ukrainians differs from Western European countries’ residents.
This year Kyiv will host the Eurovision Song Contest for the second time . Ukrainian singer Jamala won the hosting rights for Ukraine when she came first in the 2016 contest in Stockholm with her hit song “1944.”
Kyiv has already hosted the Eurovision once – in 2005, after Ruslana’s “Wild Dances” won the 2004 contest in Istanbul.
