Hundreds of football fans who spent Saturday morning queuing to get tickets for last night's game were disappointed after extra seats sold out in less than an hour.

The Bermuda Football Association (BFA) announced on Friday that 700 additional seats had been installed at the National Stadium to meet demand for the Bermuda vs. Trinidad World Cup qualifier match.

But many supporters who set up camp first thing outside the BFA office in Hamilton before the seats went on sale at 10 a.m. on Saturday came away empty-handed.

Several told The Royal Gazette the tickets sold out in under an hour and alleged that BFA officials informed them the majority had been reserved over the phone for politicians' and players' families and senior citizens.

The queue outside the BFA office on Cedar Avenue stretched all the way to the bus terminal but fans claimed that only about the first 16 people in line got to buy tickets.

Teenager Thomas Pugh, who attends every Hogges and Bermuda game, failed to get a seat after arriving at 9 a.m. He said: "There is no way they sold 700 tickets to the people queuing at all. If they sold that, then the line would have moved a lot more."

The 17-year-old Mount Saint Agnes graduate, from Paget, added: "It was crazy because the tickets went on sale at ten and there was at least 200 people down there. They were only selling tickets for about half an hour."

Another eyewitness said all the tickets were gone by 11 a.m. when a man who appeared to be a BFA official came out to say most of the extra seats had gone to MPs' and players' family and friends and seniors.

"People in line were getting angry and shouting and others queue jumping had to be sorted out by the Police," said the eyewitness.

"Some had even bought flags specially for the event but will not be able to use them."

Tramaine Stovell, 33, from Warwick, was third in line having queued from 4.40 a.m and was one of the lucky ones.

She told this newspaper: "I was going to camp out after work on Friday. I didn't want to miss the opportunity — and I'm a new football fan — to support my country."

Ms Stovell said fans assumed they'd be allowed to buy six tickets each, as the BFA had promised, but were told it was only four when they got inside the association's office.

Some waiting outside got agitated and began queue jumping. "It got a little bit out of hand," she said. "People were jumping out of line.

"A few people started arguing. It wasn't too organised."

On a page devoted to the match on the Facebook internet site, Kris Furbert wrote on Saturday that he waited for more than three hours but failed to get a ticket.

"I was near the front and a lady said that about 16 ppl [people] went in [and] bought tickets and if each person was allowed 4 each that's 64 tickets that were sold this morning assuming each person bought 4. Where did the other 700 tickets go...?? That picture don't look right to me. How can Bermuda not be able to accommodate their own ppl!?!?"

No one from the BFA responded to calls or emails yesterday. A Bermuda Police Service spokesman said: "Police were on hand to monitor the individuals waiting in line at the BFA office for tickets to the Bermuda vs. Trinidad and Tobago football game; however, there were no incidents reported where officers had to intervene."