Chelsea and Man Utd are set to receive 25,000 tickets each for the final.

......... erm is the capacity of the new Wembley supposed to be 90,000 ???

Who's got the other 40,000.

If my maths is right, that means there will be 65,000 prawn sandwich munchers in the stadium.

Disgusting !!!






















PS - have a think before you question my maths.

It is disgusting. There was no point in having a new Wembley if it means the fans will actually end up with a smaller allocation than in the old days.

Vicky

Chelsea will be well outnumbered at wembley.

With the club getting inly 25000 tickets and there being more Man U than chelsea fans I suspect that all those tickets which will be available for all the football league clubs and all the one that get distributed to the many clubs and associations around the land will as usual end up in the hands of the fans through touts. As mrP's exemplary maths shows most of those will go to manu.


However MP you are a bit low on your prawn arnie munching estimations. I recon we are talking about 80,000

this is the problem with this 10 year season ticket for Wembley that's been sold to fund the project - these people obviously expect to see games at Wembley for the extortionate price they paid for the ticket, so they have to be catered for.

then supposedly a certain amount of tickets are going to 'grass roots football' - schools and junior clubs and the like.

I hear 15,000 or so will go on general sale. The FA Cup final should be for everyone mind you, and not just for the clubs involved.

Not sure I agree with that mate.

If Bolton somehow got to a FA Cup Final and I didn't get a ticket then I'd fail to understand how some kid from a local school or someone from an U-15 team in Birmingham had more right to go to the game than me.

well, there is that argument too.

I think the spectacle of the Cup should be open to all, but just 25,000 tickets each for the clubs getting to the final is a p*ss take!

as I said, the problem at the new Wembley is those bloody 10 year season ticket holders, 20,000 of them, all expecting (rightly so, since they've paid large sums of money for tickets!) to see the game - that's a massive chunk of tickets taken up that could go elsewhere - but won't, not for the next 10 years anyway!

It has always been the case that some tickets were held back and distributed by the FA to other clubs and schools...but at Old Wembley it would only be about 10,000, many of whom would give the tickets back to the FA for distribution to participating clubs, so there would always be at least 30,000 supporters there.


But football isn't for the fans any more...didn't you know?


Vicky

This is f**king ridiculous. We're family season ticket holders, and we're part of the home cup ticket system, so we meet the qualification requirements for FA Cup final tickets, like the 37,000 other members of the scheme.

Yet not all 37,000 fans who have attended every FA Cup home game, will get a ticket.

Need to pray the lottery goes our way but 12,000 fans will be left feeling conned.

I feel for you mate. I had to do the lottery for my Champs League Final ticket last year. Hope you're as lucky as I was.


Vicky

i thought some should get distributed to fans of other clubs but ive never had the chance to purchase one

They go to the other clubs who usually distribute them to management and players and board members...apart fromt he many clubs who (used to) give them back.

Vicky