Considering the process for ticket collection against your passport reference (saw this on Villa on tour) i was told there were touts selling in Istanbul
Can anyone confirm this? If so how did they get around the process? I mean the buyers using it at the stadium not the touts
What are you talking about? All tickets for Villa fans were delivered by the UEFA app as were tickets people purchased from UEFA or 3 parties as far as I’m aware. Any touts in Istanbul would have been selling tickets they could forward from the UEFA app to your own UEFA ticket account. So no one got around any process.
Not necessarily Istanbul but i was under the impression for the other Euro away games you had to appear at a predetermined location and show your passport and if it corresponded with the booking ref you were handed a ticket
Or is that wrong?
I assumed it was same for final - if not then my bad
Yes it was wrong hookey but ticket pick up is now not a thing, they only did it once last season as someone said at Go Ahead Eagles and I suspect that was because they only had 400 odd tickets to hand out. I think feedback they’d had from the FAB was it was seen by most of us as a right pain the arse and meant the club had to ferry half the ticket office staff out each time to deal with it as well. I imagine they may do a cursory ticket pick up for European games maybe once a season to check people aren’t selling tickets on but I get the impression unless a host club/police specifically ask them to do it they won’t bother.
I think, like the Premier League, UEFA want all tickets to be digital anyway so that may be a factor also. Saves all the faffing about too
