220,000 people flocked to the ballpark. It's already crazy, and the opening series is a new record!
Mar 23, 2025
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On the 22nd and 23rd, all 10 games of the KBO League's opening two consecutive games at five stadiums nationwide were sold out.
The showdown between the KIA Tigers and the NC Dinos at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 22nd, the day of the opening game, sold out all 20,500 seats at 12:25 p.m., about an hour and a half before the start of the game. Starting this year, KIA will sell some tickets on-site for the digital underprivileged, and even all on-site sales have been sold out, recording a sellout. Internet reservations were already sold out as soon as they opened.
SSG Landers officially announced early this morning that all seats were sold out. SSG will play the regular season opener against the Doosan Bears at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the same day, and as of 10 a.m., 23,000 seats, which is the standard of sale, were sold out, marking the third consecutive year of home opening.
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The game between the Hanwha Eagles and the KT Wiz at KT Wiz Park in Suwon was also sold out without exception. Wizz Park announced 18,700 seats sold out.
KBO said a total of 109,950 tickets were sold at five stadiums, and all were sold out. It has continued to sell out all games in the opening game for the third consecutive year in the KBO League, ranking second in the record of the largest number of spectators in the opening game.
The record for the largest number of spectators in the opening game is 114,021 on March 23, 2019, and this year's opening game record of 109,950 is second by about 5,000 people. This is the seventh time that all stadiums in the opening game have been sold out (when all games were held without cancellation games).
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The same goes for Gwangju. All 20,500 seats, including on-site sales, were sold out, and Daegu (24,000 seats), Jamsil (23,650 seats), and Suwon (18,700 seats) were all sold out.
During the opening two consecutive games, 219,100 cloud spectators gathered in a total of 10 games at five stadiums nationwide. This is the highest record ever. The previous record was 214,324 in the opening series of the 2019 season.
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The surprising fact is that this atmosphere is not limited to just the opening game. The speed at which tickets are exhausted as soon as they start selling recently is no different from weekdays and weekends. Some point out that the atmosphere has been so overheated that excessive ticket sales are a problem.
Last year, KBO achieved a record of 10,887,705 spectators. It is predicted that even this record could be broken this year.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
