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Wembley and the FA ripping off fans- Outrage!

By brisfox, in Leicester City Forum

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brisfox

brisfox

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As we know, the Blue Army will be making their way down to Wembley in August. Both competing clubs have been given 27000 tickets in a stadium that holds 90,000 which means there are 36,000 tickets left. I thought I would do some investigating into what happens to the rest of the tickets. A quick search on the internet shows one company with 315 tickets available from £135 upwards. I would love to know who is supplying these tickets. Somebody, somewhere is getting very rich

 

st albans fox

st albans fox

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As we know, the Blue Army will be making their way down to Wembley in August. Both competing clubs have been given 27000 tickets in a stadium that holds 90,000 which means there are 36,000 tickets left. I thought I would do some investigating into what happens to the rest of the tickets. A quick search on the internet shows one company with 315 tickets available from £135 upwards. I would love to know who is supplying these tickets. Somebody, somewhere is getting very rich

 

perhaps they are corporate seats ??

goose2010

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Or some company some where has paid the FA millions to become a sponsor / associate of the FA and its probably apart of their agreement. This isn't a new thing its been going for ever and a day and it wont change for the better unfortunately.

foxy boxing

foxy boxing

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You know exactly who are getting rich the fa it's all about sponsors and marketing the hardcore fans don't count most of the tickets will go to overseas corporates it is how they make their money selling us to a global audience

Jace

Jace

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Its 27,000 per teams for all big games mate sorry I know its annoying but its no different for us 

StanSP

StanSP

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I've been to Wembley, there isn't 36,000 in the prawn sandwich brigade

 

True. there isn't.

 

But a LOT of the tickets go to charities, local football clubs and local community teams.

 

Think about the competition we're playing in - community shield. 

 

FA has hundreds of companies they're in sponsorship with.

Also, this is nothing new as someone said. Why get all outraged now? 

AaronH

AaronH

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I emailed them regarding this and this is the reply

 

Thank you for contacting the Football Association.

 

Playing The FA Community Shield at Wembley is part of the stadium's business plan which allowed The FA to build a 90,000 seater national stadium, but with the significantly greater number of tickets available this will allow more fans to attend each of the showpiece fixtures. In turn, this will generate more income for The FA to reinvest back into the game at all levels – The FA is a non-profit organisation.

In relation to the allocation of tickets, approximately 55,000 go to the two competing teams. However, one team’s allocation is always slightly smaller due to segregation purposes. The number of seats used for segregation is in the region of 1500. Additionally a certain number of seats are located in the Club Wembley areas of the stadium on Level Two. The remaining tickets are issued to the ‘Football Family’.  The Football Family is made up of all the clubs who participated in this seasons FA Cup, FA Partners, official charities and the local County Football Associations who organise football throughout England. However, anything not taken up by the ‘Football Family’ is made available to the two competing clubs.

We do appreciate the frustrations involved when supporters miss out on obtaining tickets for big matches.  However, with a match of this importance involving two such big clubs it is impossible to satisfy the demand for tickets.

Kind regards,

jammie82uk

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As we know, the Blue Army will be making their way down to Wembley in August. Both competing clubs have been given 27000 tickets in a stadium that holds 90,000 which means there are 36,000 tickets left. I thought I would do some investigating into what happens to the rest of the tickets. A quick search on the internet shows one company with 315 tickets available from £135 upwards. I would love to know who is supplying these tickets. Somebody, somewhere is getting very rich

so it's not The FA and Wembley ripping fans off then as you pointed out in your title

GaelicFox

GaelicFox

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Also every County FA gets a bucket full for this game

Grass roots get a bucket full

Honestly people need to get a grip it's a fantastic allocation 27000

Not so long ago we would have struggled to sell 27000 tickets for city !

Ireland got 4000 for the Ireland V France euro game

brisfox

brisfox

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The point I am making is that there are thousands of tickets for sale on websites at higher than face value( thought that was illegal but nobody seems to care). Where do these tickets come from? Are they being sold in bulk( which I suspect) or are people who get freebie tickets making a few quid on the black market? Either way, they should be stopped.

Jace

Jace

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The point I am making is that there are thousands of tickets for sale on websites at higher than face value( thought that was illegal but nobody seems to care). Where do these tickets come from? Are they being sold in bulk( which I suspect) or are people who get freebie tickets making a few quid on the black market? Either way, they should be stopped.

 

 

We do care I'm sure we would all like to be going with cheap face value tickets, problem is this has been how big match games, finals, major tournaments etc have always been it was never going to be different for this game unfortunately 

GaelicFox

GaelicFox

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I think the FA has done us very fair with ticket prices

£20 for a pre season training session in Oxford

Or £25 for community shield !

Great job by FA

Dan

Dan

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Also every County FA gets a bucket full for this game

Grass roots get a bucket full

Honestly people need to get a grip it's a fantastic allocation 27000

Not so long ago we would have struggled to sell 27000 tickets for city !

Ireland got 4000 for the Ireland V France euro game

 

:mellow:

GaelicFox

GaelicFox

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:mellow:

In my opinion it's a great allocation

4 years ago we regularly struggled to sell that many tickets at home

Every season ticket holder will accommodated , 100%

Manure more than 50% of their STH's will miss out

This is a show case event to celebrate the FA reaching into the heart of our country and communities , so huge numbers go to local FA offices and county FA boards

I'm more than happy with 27000 being fair

When we get 12000 for the champions league final in cardif that's the time to meltdown !

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