How Do I Get FA Cup Final Tickets?

The FA Cup final is one of the biggest games of the English soccer season and is watched by people all over the world. But with a limited seating capacity at Wembley Stadium, the FA issues tickets to clubs and corporate hospitality on a priority basis. The general public gets few chances to see the game in person.

  1. Team Membership

    • Each finalist is allocated about 25,000 seats of the 90,000 in Wembley Stadium. Although smaller clubs could share this total fairly among their fans, some of the top clubs have attendances of more than 30,000 every home game. Priority is given to season-ticket holders and then to holders of team memberships that can cost anywhere from £25 to £4,000 for the top clubs.

    Competitions

    • A large majority of the remaining 40,000 seats go to players' families, various officials and corporate interests, so knowing people in the right positions may help you to obtain a ticket. Failing that, a number of companies give the general public a chance through competitions that ask simple questions and award tickets to the winners. Around a month before the final, check the FA, British newspapers and sports websites for these competitions.

    Secondary Market

    • Many websites are part of a secondary ticket system in which tickets are purchased from licensed sellers and sold for prices set by the new owners. The face values of FA Cup final tickets start at £40 and range up to £95 as of 2010, but some may hit more than £1,000 with secondary ticket sites. Worldticketshop offers tickets to the final, and Ticketmaster has a fan-to-fan system that allows ticket holders to resell.