F.A. Cup Tickets

[tbiddulph]

I am intrigued about the way the tickets for the upcoming semi-final at Wembley are being sold.

According to the ticket office, AVFC have been allocated the West of the stadium excluding the centre clocks in the range 201-252 - which I think are 'Club Wembley' tickets.

Season ticket holders with the best history e.g 10 years plus, were given first refusal for tickets starting on Wednesday 18th March and as time progresses people with less history and attendance qualify to buy tickets. However, the blocks being offered initially are the either the furthest away from the pitch - Blocks 501 - 526 or the blocks adjacent to the corner flags - blocks 137-138 etc; The best seating - blocks 123-125 and142-144 are being left until last. I understand this will mean that the best seats in the house are likely to be offered to the fans with the least history.

Is this fair?

Terry

[Lucky Eddie]

According to the ticket office it's the way Wembley have released seats to Villa, a few blocks at a time.

At least it means the loyal don't have to sit with the jonnycomelatelies 😉

[UK Redsox]

I have previously spoken to the TO regarding the way that ticket sales for away games are handled.

I discovered that being first to book doesn't get you the best seat. Seats are allocated based on what ticket is next on the pile/list.

The same might be happening for the Semi

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Does anyone know why there are 2 different price categories within the same block? Eg Block 134 has both £53 and £43 seats.

Would the cheaper ones be right at the front?

[DeKuip]

Just guessing here, but with up to 70,000 seats usually available for the two clubs in semi-finals there are another 7,000 to be allocated once the clubs have sold their initial 31,500. Therefore for segregation purposes it would make sense if those seats were the centre blocks on the south side. So if we played Blackburn and they couldn't sell theirs we'd could be given all those blocks to sell with no concern over segregation. If it's Liverpool we'd both get up to the half-way line and 35,000 tickets each eventually.

[itbrvilla]

Does anyone know why there are 2 different price categories within the same block? Eg Block 134 has both £53 and £43 seats.

Would the cheaper ones be right at the front?

Back I imagine.

I got the cheapest possible seats to the last semi and was on the very last row of the top tier.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Does anyone know why there are 2 different price categories within the same block? Eg Block 134 has both £53 and £43 seats.

Would the cheaper ones be right at the front?

Back I imagine.

I got the cheapest possible seats to the last semi and was on the very last row of the top tier.

I know what you mean but 134 is the lower tier, therefore the better seats are towards the back rather than down at pitch level. I agree that for the upper tier, you'd be better off nearer the front.

[Chris Jameson]

Working in a box office I know that when artists do a special 'pre sale' for those on their mailing list that it doesn't get you the best seats. An example being a Squeeze/John Cooper Clarke gig we'll be putting on sale tomorrow, people on the Squeeze mailing list were able to book yesterday via one of the ticket agencies, not only do they not get to select their seats but they also have to pay the extortionate booking fees charged by Ticketmaster or whoever.

[cdward]

Maybe they're reasoning that anyone who has bought a season ticket for the last 10 years is obviously willing to put up with any old shite, so they'll be happy in any seat.

[dalians umbrella]

Does anyone know which blocks are currently being offered?
On day 1, someone kindly posted a screenshot.

[dalians umbrella]

Does anyone know why there are 2 different price categories within the same block? Eg Block 134 has both £53 and £43 seats.

Would the cheaper ones be right at the front?

Yes

[curlytailavfc]

I booked one yesterday for someone else as im not going, the online set up was a total joke every one i picked said sold out, then i selected best buy and it said sorry call this number which i did which took me ages.

[class-of-82]

I will be queing up for mine on the morning of tues 7th April all because I let my sth mate book mine for Blackpool and bournemouth.
Doing that has put me to nearly the back of the queue then back again on weds morning for my kids

[conman]

Yes ,,,,,,,i could have bought mine on the march 19 ,the 2nd day  they went on sale
i  was told what blocks were available but because they was crap i decided not to purchase at that time
 it wasnt compulsory to buy your ticket at the earliest opportunity
so waited for block 134 to go on sale (yesterday March 26) and bought my ticket

[Villafirst]

Is it fair that someone who's only had a ST for 14/15 and has attended all the FA cup matches gets priority over ST holders with 10+ seasons but has attended fewer  FA cup matches, say 2 or 3? I've had my ST well over 10 seasons and find this crazy that one season ST holders get this much priority. Really rewards loyalty...