On October 12, at full Opus Arena will be in attendance as tickets for the forthcoming Croatia-Turkey EURO 2024 qualification sell out in only 8 minutes.

This month’s qualifying matches for the 2024 European Championship are still going on, and Croatia’s next challenge will come on October 12 against Turkey in Osijek’s Opus Arena

The Croatian football federation or the HNS had this to say to the fans “As much as we are happy with such interest from the fans, the truth is that the capacity of Opus Arena is too small for everyone who wants to watch the Vatreni on this occasion. Therefore, the decision was made to allow the most loyal fans, 1,000 of them with the most matches in the last five years, to buy tickets in advance, and most of them used this right,”.

Five percent of the available seats in each of the four stands were set aside for supporters of Turkey. Several additional tickets might show up in the ticketing system during the next few days, depending on the potential number of unclaimed (unpaid) and reserved tickets. In any case, we already know that Turkey will be in a packed stadium when Croatia plays them.

I think this is very interesting to see because it shows how football is seen in different countries like Croatia. In this country football is the biggest sport and events like these sell out all the time. It is interesting to see how a country of only 3 million people can be so drawn and interested in soccer as their main sport as well as producing great players who draw that type of attention to see as it’s the captain Luka Modrić. Hopefully in the future a bigger stadium can be built that can more fans in the stadium.