The head of the consulate's visa department said authorities have allocated a quota of 6,000 tickets for Russian soccer fans, although he said he expected more to arrive as many supporters would come to London to watch the game on TV in pubs and sports bars.
Russia is currently ranked third in its Group E, with 15 points after Croatia and Greece, and is closely followed by England, with 14 points.
The two teams played friendly matches Wednesday night, and Russia finished its match against Poland with a 2-2 draw, while England yielded to German pressure in a 1-2 defeat.
England, which has given unexpectedly poor performances since the beginning of the qualifiers, returned home in June from Tallinn after a convincing 3-0 victory over Estonia. The victory was largely down to the experience of Michael Owen and David Beckham, who were missing from previous qualifiers.
Speaking earlier about Russia's chances of qualifying for the championship in Austria and Switzerland next year, Russia's Dutch coach Guus Hiddink, 60, who signed a two-year contract worth 4 million euros last year to head the Russian team, said everything would be decided in the fall, when Russia meets England.
Hiddink said that with England's victory the fight within the group, which he dubbed as the "group of death," had reached a climax, and that only the last games in November would show who gets to go to the 2008 Euro finals.
