Istanbul travel and ticket information

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Eligible Group 1
25/26 Season Ticket Holders, Hospitality Season Ticket Holders and GA+ Season Ticket Holders who attended 12 or more Europa League matches during the 2025/26 season.

Those supporters that have pre-registered their interest and fit into Group 1 will be sent a UEFA Unique Code that will allow access to the UEFA portal. They will have an exclusive window from 10am until 2pm on Monday 11th May to purchase their ticket.

Supporters in this Group are guaranteed the opportunity to purchase a match ticket, provided that they purchase in the exclusive window.

You're also guaranteed a ticket with 8 Europa League games.

Will go with Catevory 3 I reckon, as that's likely behind the goal.

Edit: it says form, but its actually purchasing a ballot slot for the codes. Unless I have missed something.

[steamer]

what is the stadium capacity ?
Freiburg have an average home attendance of 34,000
Us 42,000
Lots of No marks to get the majority of tickets

[Max Villan]

Thought they may have gone with season ticket holders over ten years as other English clubs have done in the past...

Only got all the home games. Oh well.

[Pete3206]

what is the stadium capacity ?
Freiburg have an average home attendance of 34,000
Us 42,000
Lots of No marks to get the majority of tickets

42,684

[charleeco7]

So I’ve registered an interest for 4 tickets all with 7 game history. Does that now give us 4 goes in the ballot as a group or one as I’m the individual who had “ordered” them all?

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Cannot go myself but isn't it worth looking at flights to somewhere like Ankara at a fraction of the cost and then getting a train up to Istanbul ?

[AV82EC]

So I’ve registered an interest for 4 tickets all with 7 game history. Does that now give us 4 goes in the ballot as a group or one as I’m the individual who had “ordered” them all?

Yes 4 goes in the ballot but if anyone's successful it'll be there Fan ID that gets the ticket.

[Three Spires Villa]

My son is going London to Berlin - Berlin to Istanbul. After on the Thursday Istanbul to Ankara - Ankara to London. All in £400. A crazy journey, but they are all early 20’s so…..

[claret+blue ed]

Annoyingly, i'm on 6, so doesn't look like I can even register until group 3 is finished

[claret+blue ed]

Does anyone know which part of the stadium we have been allocated??

[London Villan]

Rough calculation, there will be a max of 20,000 eligible in Group 3 for 7,000 tickets... How many will be able/want to go of that 20,000? Probably less than you think.

10 days notice?
£700+ flights
£100 tickets

[kippaxvilla2]

10,000 is that all we are getting?  That’s shocking. 

[ender4]

Rough calculation, there will be a max of 20,000 eligible in Group 3 for 7,000 tickets... How many will be able/want to go of that 20,000? Probably less than you think.

10 days notice?
£700+ flights
£100 tickets

Surely much less than 20k attended 7+ matches?

3k probably attended at least 1 away match, leaving 7,000 tickets for those who attended 7 matches.

I'd guess 10k attended all 7 home matches, so a a decent chance of being successful in the ballot

[Demitri_C]

10,000 is that all we are getting?  That’s shocking.

Unfortunately  the stadium is the size of villa park so they will give a signf amount to corporate which sucks balls thats why i never understand  why they dont do finals in the bigger stadiums

[CT]

At the risk of being incredibly thick, it says “ballot entry”. Luckily we’re in Cat 1, but I thought they said the ballot was for Cat 3?

Is that all we do for now and then the Villa ticket office super-computer sorts out which Fan ID’s go into which category?

Then we can only use the same phone for using the UEFA portal, so I’d have two tickets for me and my lad on my phone? No pressure there then!