Up to 1300 tickets will be released to the public at 12pm (AEST) on Thursday for the preliminary final between Richmond and Greater Western Sydney at the MCG on Saturday evening.
The AFL has estimated a crowd of 97,000 will walk through the MCG gates on Saturday for the Tigers' first preliminary final since 2001.
Should the crowd reach that mark it would be one of the highest-attended games (excluding the Grand Final) on record since 1973.
A crowd of 98,002 was on hand to see Geelong defeat Collingwood by five points in the 2007 preliminary final, which is the highest crowd for a non-Grand Final since the 1970s.
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