Crowded house

New Zealand Football expect to put up the ‘‘full house’’ sign at Westpac Stadium by the end of the weekend.

By yesterday afternoon, more than

30,000 tickets had been sold for the first leg of the World Cup intercontinental playoff against Peru at Westpac Stadium in Wellington on November 11.

A sellout would see 38,000 fans attend the match, which would surpass the previous highest attendance for a football match in New Zealand of the

35,179 fans who watched the All Whites defeat Bahrain 1-0 at Westpac Stadium in

2009 to make the 2010 World Cup. Tickets have been snapped up in super quick time, with 20,000 sold inside the first hour of Tuesday’s ‘‘presale’’ to fans on the New Zealand Football wait list.

Just how many of the remaining

8000 tickets will be available when the general public sale starts at noon tomorrow is not known, but a decent chunk are expected to have already gone to the teams, sponsors and officials.

The fixture against Peru – No 10 on the FIFA World Rankings – is also believed to be the highest ranked opponent that New Zealand have played on home soil.

Meanwhile, Air New Zealand announced it would operate an extra flight between Auckland and Wellington on November 11 just for All Whites fans.