champions league final tickets 2011
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I watched the Switzerland game from one of the back rows in tier 5, now admittedly I have atrocious eyesight but it wasn't great, I certainly wouldn't be happy paying over £350 for a pair of tickets plus travel compared to watching on HDTV.
I guess you mean category 3? Category 1 tickets are the most expensive at £300 a piece.
Is it certain that category 3 tickets are in the upper tier? I ask as the 2 finalists are being given category 4 tickets.
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wont the tickets have your name on it?
how can you sell them? or do the people risk it, using someone elses name?
The tickets will have the purchasers name on but do you really think ~90,000 are going to be ID'd going into the ground? 
The vast majority of the 'neutral' tickets sold by UEFA and ones given to clubs/sponsors etc, end up getting sold on the black market.
The vast majority of the 'neutral' tickets sold by UEFA and ones given to clubs/sponsors etc, end up getting sold on the black market.
my friend just texted me saying it's over £320 for a ticket?! they're the credit card activated tickets too connected with your passport number, so there's no great danger of touts selling them on but if that price is true then that's just plain ridiculous
Cheers. That just leaves the corners and behind the goals on level 5 for the two finalists then.
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Can I order tickets with a debit card ? as I see in the faq it says credit card purchases only.
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If Arsenal can make it there, I'll 200% be there
That's what I was planning to do but after seeing the prices, I'm not going to bother.
So who applied? Both my girlfriend and I have made applications, one in cat 3 and one in cat 2. I'm a neutral (not sure West Ham will be there this year, maybe next?) but I love champions league football. I hope it's a Madrid/Barca v any English team final.
Not that I agree with the prices of the tickets but what can you do?
Not that I agree with the prices of the tickets but what can you do?
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why cant you sell them on?
Q15: Will my name be printed on the Tickets?
A15: The name(s), surname(s) and date(s) of birth you provide in your application will be linked to
your ticket(s). The tickets are non transferrable and ID checks will be carried out at the entrance of
the stadium.
so according to the UEFA site if you do manage to get hold of any tickets you'll have trouble selling them on.
Anyway I get this dodgy feeling that anyone who applied from England will probably not get any tickets typically anti English
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Q15: Will my name be printed on the Tickets?
A15: The name(s), surname(s) and date(s) of birth you provide in your application will be linked to
your ticket(s). The tickets are non transferrable and ID checks will be carried out at the entrance of
the stadium.
so according to the UEFA site if you do manage to get hold of any tickets you'll have trouble selling them on.
Anyway I get this dodgy feeling that anyone who applied from England will probably not get any tickets typically anti English
do you really think they will ID 90,000 fans, also what if you had lost your wallet, the night before the game or a million other reasons you could come up with as to why you dont have ID.
do you really think they would stop someone from going in who had a ticket but no ID?
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I have applied for 2 tickets for both the UEFA Cup and the Champions league final every year for the past 4 years. I have only ever won a single pair of tickets and that was for the UEFA cup final in Manchester between Zenit St Petersburg and Rangers. Somebody offered £1500 for the pair, so me and our lass had a week in Italy instead. Couldn't turn down stupid money like that. My name was on the tickets though, and the Rangers fans had a riot. Nothing came back to me though.
AFAIK there are usually about 11,000 tickets and about 500,000 applicants. It used to be that you could turn down the tickets if you won and decided you didn't want them so a fan of one of the 2 teams involved had a chance. UEFA decided this was bad
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I'm not applying this year. £176 a ticket is taking the ****
AFAIK there are usually about 11,000 tickets and about 500,000 applicants. It used to be that you could turn down the tickets if you won and decided you didn't want them so a fan of one of the 2 teams involved had a chance. UEFA decided this was bad
. I'm not applying this year. £176 a ticket is taking the ****
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Vote with your feet and not go. Then maybe they will get the message. They can only charge what people are prepared to pay.
It will be interesting to see whether they manage to sell all the tickets this year. Any touts buying the tickets are gambling on their being an English finalist. Without an English side in the final, I doubt they'd even be able to get their money back on the tickets let alone make a profit.
If an English side makes the final though, they'll be selling the tickets on for anything up to £1,000 I'd imagine. I remember back in 2007 when Liverpool got to the final in Athens, tickets were going for £800 a go and that's with all the added cost of traveling to Athens.
If an English side makes the final though, they'll be selling the tickets on for anything up to £1,000 I'd imagine. I remember back in 2007 when Liverpool got to the final in Athens, tickets were going for £800 a go and that's with all the added cost of traveling to Athens.