Carling Cup Final Tickets

Iceman29 · Post by **Iceman29** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:57 pm

From the ticket registeration page:

Registrations for the Carling Cup Final are now closed.
Due to the popularity of this fixture, the Club has received more registrations than tickets available, therefore as previously communicated, a random ballot will be held.

The onus is on all lead applicants to view the status of their application online from 12 noon on Thursday 3rd February 2011 - there will be no email communication for this phase of the process. The registration site will be updated to indicate the status of your registered application. When accessing the site, please view the status column where one of the following classifications will be indicated against each member registration:

Successful - This means that the specific individual member is guaranteed a ticket provided it is purchased within the allotted time period.

Standby - This means that your individual registration is held pending any remaining ticket availability.

Unsuccessful - This means that you have unfortunately not been successful in the ballot.

Sorry silver and reds

AA23Northbank · Post by **AA23Northbank** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:01 pm

Iceman29 wrote:From the ticket registeration page:

Registrations for the Carling Cup Final are now closed.
Due to the popularity of this fixture, the Club has received more registrations than tickets available, therefore as previously communicated, a random ballot will be held.

The onus is on all lead applicants to view the status of their application online from 12 noon on Thursday 3rd February 2011 - there will be no email communication for this phase of the process. The registration site will be updated to indicate the status of your registered application. When accessing the site, please view the status column where one of the following classifications will be indicated against each member registration:

Successful - This means that the specific individual member is guaranteed a ticket provided it is purchased within the allotted time period.

Standby - This means that your individual registration is held pending any remaining ticket availability.

Unsuccessful - This means that you have unfortunately not been successful in the ballot.

Sorry silver and reds

Oh well

Post by **I Hate Hleb** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:50 pm

Just got this response to my e-mail enquiring how Birmingham get the same amount of tickets to the final as we do, despite selling many less tickets for the earlier rounds......

Tony,

Thanks for your email. It is at Arsenalâ€™s discretion how they sell tickets for the final.

However we work on the basis that a club requests their allocation (in this case the maximum they can receive of approx 31K each) based on what they believe they are able to sell. Birmingham indicated to The League that they would be able to sell the maximum allocation and therefore have received this.

In recent years, the only club to have requested a smaller allocation at a Carling Cup Final was Wigan when they played Man Utd in 2005/06. This was purely down to club choice and not dictated by us.

The Carling Cup Final operates in a different fashion to League matches and Clubs are given the opportunity to sell as many tickets as they can. The League attempts to assist the clubs by giving them as many tickets as we possibly can, keeping a small amount for our contractual obligations. This is reflected by the extra 6000 seats we provide them (meaning an allocation of 31,000 each) over the 25,000 seats they would receive at an FA Cup Final for example.

For further queries we can only suggest that you contact Arsenal FC themselves in relation to your specific circumstances and their ticket selling policy for the Final.

Regards,

Andrew Pomfret

Customer Services Officer

The Football League Limited
Email - [email protected]

www.football-league.co.uk

Iceman29 · Post by **Iceman29** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:54 pm

I Hate Hleb wrote:Just got this response to my e-mail enquiring how Birmingham get the same amount of tickets to the final as we do, despite selling many less tickets for the earlier rounds......

Tony,

Thanks for your email. It is at Arsenalâ€™s discretion how they sell tickets for the final.

However we work on the basis that a club requests their allocation (in this case the maximum they can receive of approx 31K each) based on what they believe they are able to sell. Birmingham indicated to The League that they would be able to sell the maximum allocation and therefore have received this.

In recent years, the only club to have requested a smaller allocation at a Carling Cup Final was Wigan when they played Man Utd in 2005/06. This was purely down to club choice and not dictated by us.

The Carling Cup Final operates in a different fashion to League matches and Clubs are given the opportunity to sell as many tickets as they can. The League attempts to assist the clubs by giving them as many tickets as we possibly can, keeping a small amount for our contractual obligations. This is reflected by the extra 6000 seats we provide them (meaning an allocation of 31,000 each) over the 25,000 seats they would receive at an FA Cup Final for example.

For further queries we can only suggest that you contact Arsenal FC themselves in relation to your specific circumstances and their ticket selling policy for the Final.

Regards,

Andrew Pomfret

Customer Services Officer

The Football League Limited
Email - [email protected]

www.football-league.co.uk

I thought that was a very good response explaining the circumstances

mikeyb772001 · Post by **mikeyb772001** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:56 pm

At least we get 31 rather than 25

Wonder how many credits you do need for FA or CL final?

AA23Northbank · Post by **AA23Northbank** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:00 pm

mikeyb772001 wrote:At least we get 31 rather than 25

Wonder how many credits you do need for FA or CL final?

I have a fear despite Wembley's capacity the CL final will only be 22 or 23k due to Club Wembley.

I guess that doesn't matter for us anymore....

But say Wembley has a 90k capacity:

18k are gone to Club Wembley/Boxes (I think)

So that's 72K left....

Each club gets 31/32k tickets,
The other 92 clubs get 20 tickets each,
So what happens to the other tickets?
And why the bloody hell are the allocations so low for the FA Cup final?

Complete joke if you ask me

Post by **I Hate Hleb** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:05 pm

More good news. The referee is going to be Mike Dean!!

Iceman29 · Post by **Iceman29** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:10 pm

AA23Northbank wrote:
mikeyb772001 wrote:At least we get 31 rather than 25

Wonder how many credits you do need for FA or CL final?
I have a fear despite Wembley's capacity the CL final will only be 22 or 23k due to Club Wembley.

I guess that doesn't matter for us anymore....

But say Wembley has a 90k capacity:

18k are gone to Club Wembley/Boxes (I think)

So that's 72K left....

Each club gets 31/32k tickets,
The other 92 clubs get 20 tickets each,
So what happens to the other tickets?
And why the bloody hell are the allocations so low for the FA Cup final?

Complete joke if you ask me

You're forgetting the sponsors. E.on are definately going to take a large chunk so will vauxhall with their sponsorship of England

AA23Northbank · Post by **AA23Northbank** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:51 pm

Iceman29 wrote:
AA23Northbank wrote:
mikeyb772001 wrote:At least we get 31 rather than 25

Wonder how many credits you do need for FA or CL final?
I have a fear despite Wembley's capacity the CL final will only be 22 or 23k due to Club Wembley.

I guess that doesn't matter for us anymore....

But say Wembley has a 90k capacity:

18k are gone to Club Wembley/Boxes (I think)

So that's 72K left....

Each club gets 31/32k tickets,
The other 92 clubs get 20 tickets each,
So what happens to the other tickets?
And why the bloody hell are the allocations so low for the FA Cup final?

Complete joke if you ask me
You're forgetting the sponsors. E.on are definately going to take a large chunk so will vauxhall with their sponsorship of England

But why do sponsors need so many fucking tickets? They'll probably end up in the hands of touts ffs. Platini said when he came in that more ordinary fans would get the chance to have tickets for the final and it's evidently not the case. And The FA aren't much better. *word censored* the lot of them

Iceman29 · Post by **Iceman29** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:58 pm

AA23Northbank wrote:
Iceman29 wrote:
AA23Northbank wrote:
mikeyb772001 wrote:At least we get 31 rather than 25

Wonder how many credits you do need for FA or CL final?
I have a fear despite Wembley's capacity the CL final will only be 22 or 23k due to Club Wembley.

I guess that doesn't matter for us anymore....

But say Wembley has a 90k capacity:

18k are gone to Club Wembley/Boxes (I think)

So that's 72K left....

Each club gets 31/32k tickets,
The other 92 clubs get 20 tickets each,
So what happens to the other tickets?
And why the bloody hell are the allocations so low for the FA Cup final?

Complete joke if you ask me
You're forgetting the sponsors. E.on are definately going to take a large chunk so will vauxhall with their sponsorship of England
But why do sponsors need so many fucking tickets? They'll probably end up in the hands of touts ffs. Platini said when he came in that more ordinary fans would get the chance to have tickets for the final and it's evidently not the case. And The FA aren't much better. c**ts the lot of them

Errr.....they pay the money to sponsor the event, maybe. Say if you would be paying millions to the FA, won't you want tickets to their key events in the calendar.

MK Gould · Post by **MK Gould** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:22 pm

mikeyb772001 wrote:
jamjc64 wrote:7 of us all in block 111 row 27, could be the Gunners pub and online gooner section

Row 8 block 111 4 of us block 6 regulars

You must of got teh Â£70 seats eh Jam?

Block 111 has gone yellow now! Think its going to be thest block for noise

We are trying to book out a whole pub mate, will keep you informed!

We got 4 in block 111 row 41. Glad to hear so many of you have gone for the same section.

At Â£70 though - and with some big games coming up - I wouldn't be at all surprised if sales were more sluggish than Arsenal are obviously expecting. They say that it's oversubscribed....but they can't actually know this yet as they don't know how many of those with 3+ will decide against it. Fingers crossed for those in the ballot.

There now seem to be two blocks sold out (although 107 was already red by the time I booked at 920am so maybe these have gone to club employees?). And seven blocks show limited availability (inc 111...).

MK Gould · Post by **MK Gould** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:26 pm

Birmingham website says their tickets will be on general sale from Tuesday 22nd February..... And any gooners in that area who have attended one or more of their carling cup games this season (or even know someone who has!) can purchase before then:
http://www.bcfc.com/page/AwayDetail/0,, ... 99,00.html

tinpot lane · Post by **tinpot lane** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:25 pm

Row 8, Â£58.

Should be a good atmosphere behind the goal.

Connolly55 · Post by **Connolly55** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:26 pm

Block 112, Row 2

worthing gooner · Post by **worthing gooner** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:26 pm

I Hate Hleb wrote:More good news. The referee is going to be Mike Dean!!

Yep, heard that. To be fair his record with us v brum normaly means him giving a dramatic penalty late on!!!
Me, still bitter......Fook Yeah..