NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Results from the 2011 University of Notre Dame football ticket lottery are now available online.

Despite continuing high demand (reflected in more than twice as much money being refunded this year compared to 2010), the university’s alumni, friends and fans maintain broad access to coveted Notre Dame football tickets.

Alumni who followed the university’s advice to apply for tickets to as many games as possible (three or more) of this year’s six home games, for the most part, will win tickets to one or more home games this season.

Senior alumni requests for that designated game, South Florida on Sept. 3, remained high this year. However, a lottery was not necessary for the senior alumni allocation.

Alumni ticket requests in the past few years have been high and continue to be for 2011, based on these examples:

• Nearly $2 million will be refunded this year to unsuccessful lottery participants. That $2 million figure is more than twice the refund amount from the 2010 lottery – even though the 2010 lottery featured seven games in Notre Dame Stadium compared to six in 2011. The ticket office will begin to mail those refunds the week of July 11.
• More than 45,000 tickets were requested for the USC game on Oct. 22. In fact, both the USC game (at Notre Dame Stadium) and the Sept. 10 Michigan game (at Ann Arbor) ranked among the top 25 games all-time in terms of home and away ticket requests, respectively.

Notre Dame alumni, Monogram Club members and benefactors who make an annual minimum contribution to the university are eligible to participate in an individual game ticket lottery for both home and away contests. In excess of 30,000 tickets per game are available for each home contest for contributing alumni. Away game ticket inventory varies by site. When the quantity of tickets requested exceeds the supply, a random number driven lottery is conducted.

The 2011 lottery for the first time featured an online component for select groups of applicants, and an additional rollout of that method for application is planned for 2012.

The Notre Dame ticket office currently is finalizing the 2011 lottery and preparing refund checks. Lottery results are available at www.und.com/tickets or by calling (574) 631-7356 Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.