Istanbul travel and ticket information

[GarTomas]

To be fair to UEFA the process was rather easy.
The ability to seat with others after securing your seat was useful.

If only such attention to detail was given to investigating financial irregularities, implementation of VAR etc the game would be much better off!

[Des Little]

Anyone else been in the waiting room a while?  Should I be worried?

[GarTomas]

Anyone else been in the waiting room a while?  Should I be worried?

I was waiting from around 2:15 when I got the link, and was then able to get in about 2:35 so expect there is a queuing mechanism it just doesn’t give you the place in the queue.

[Crown Hill]

looking at pictures of the stadium i cant see where the restricted views would be unless they mean the corners?

i went for category 2 anyway

[Pat Mustard]

looking at pictures of the stadium i cant see where the restricted views would be unless they mean the corners?

i went for category 2 anyway

I assume the restricted view seats are just like the ones in Villa Park, where you might have part of an exit handrail etc. in the way - it's not really a problem.

[montague]

Does anybody know which sections will be for Villa fans - mulling over buying from resellers so be useful to know. Thanks

[FrankyH]

A lad at work ( who's in Group 3, tomorrows criteria ) has just told me he's had a code , sent at 12:45pm today ! I've no reason to disbelieve him, surely that can't be legit ?

[Somniloquism]

The purchases are tomorrow but I can't see any reason that some people haven't been selected already and had them sent through.

[GarTomas]

Unlikely, the window for group 2 is open until tomorrow so until that closes it’s not known how many tickets to assign in the ballot.

[Somniloquism]

They will have a known amount to assign out and unlike windows 1-2, it will be the bulk of them so the draw/contacting might have already started with the final ones being the ones not purchased by Group 2 ready for the ones to be assigned out in the 30 mins between sales windows.

[PSK]

Dont think group 3 are sent out as it would allow group 3 to buy tickets before the purchase window opens tomorrow

[olaftab]

A lad at work ( who's in Group 3, tomorrows criteria ) has just told me he's had a code , sent at 12:45pm today ! I've no reason to disbelieve him, surely that can't be legit ?

Or he doesn't realise that he could be group 2?

[Somniloquism]

Dont think group 3 are sent out as it would allow group 3 to buy tickets before the purchase window opens tomorrow

I thought the codes might be time-locked but I understand now. Villa's email system is going to be hammered between 930 and 10am tomorrow then.

[FrankyH]

A lad at work ( who's in Group 3, tomorrows criteria ) has just told me he's had a code , sent at 12:45pm today ! I've no reason to disbelieve him, surely that can't be legit ?

Or he doesn't realise that he could be group 2?

Hasn't been to an away game , so wouldn't qualify.

[Dogtanian]

Does anybody know which sections will be for Villa fans - mulling over buying from resellers so be useful to know. Thanks

Who are you looking at getting it through? Ticombo offer money back guarantee if the ticket doesn’t work.

As I understand it, the UEFA-sold tickets are based on category, not block, and you won’t know which part of the stadium you are in until the tickets are sent out the week of the game.

So I would avoid any claiming to be Villa end, as I’m not sure how they can know.

Does anyone here in cat 1 or 2 who has bought a ticket know which block its going to be in?