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Recently Jnr FD and I went to see England play at Aston Villa. The tickets were roughly £130 each
I tried England supporters and it said sold out. I got them through through livefootballtickets . They didn’t appear on the FA’s list of dodgy ticket sellers, and Trust Pilot had good reviews
When they arrived they were noted as England supporters tickets with a value of £25
Jnr FD would like to go and watch Liverpool at home at some point. An example is this weekend you can still get tickets from this same site for roughly £250 pp (wouldn’t pay that much) but none on the Liverpool site
Is it just a case of joining England supporters , and Liverpool supported type thing and looking months/years in advance?
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I think no matter what getting tickets for the Merseyside derby on Saturday would be tough/expensive.
The best way not to get fleeced is to buy through the clubs ticketing website.
This popped up on my newsfeed this morning which seems apt.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/cwy9dlqxx2ro
Most clubs will offer tickets via a tier system, so what's left after season tickets and corporate will then go on sale to members (Brighton for example charge £35 a year for adults and around £25 for kids to become a MyAlbion+ member), then usually season ticket holders can then buy some extra tickets and anything left over then goes on general sale. Brighton also now offer season ticket holders the chance to offer their ticket up on an exchange, so if you can't make the game you can get 1/19 of your season ticket value back should someone purchase the ticket, this generally means there are always tickets available.
There seams to be a bit of focus right now on the unofficial resale sites, so I would be wary of buying from one even if it worked in the past, as those tickets could be cancelled.
We've got the Lionesses playing at Derby soon, I'm expecting fun and games trying to get tickets for that.
The home Liverpool derby was just an example of something I would expect to be sold out at this stage, yet tickets still available
I guess it might be a case of paying an annual fee to Liverpool FC on the off chance of getting tickets
To be fair that’s what we have done with the RFU
The home Liverpool derby was just an example of something I would expect to be sold out at this stage, yet tickets still available
It will be sold out. Anything you can see available not via the club's website will be unofficial resellers. At best there will be a massive mark-up, at worst the ticket you're buying won't exist.
Liverpool gonna be one of the hardest to get tickets and expect most PL clubs will require you to have membership which has a fee and no guarantee.
i read the BBC article this morning and I’m not a risk taker so wouldn’t fancy that route, however I was part of a gang that went to Tottenham a couple of years back and I was paranoid about going in.
Plan Z is save up and get some official ho$$pitality.
Liverpool tickets are almost impossible to get in a legit fashion. It's on a completely different scale to any other club. It's still possible, but you need patience (are you willing to wait until next season to get luck in a ballot? the season after? 5 years for the season ticket waiting list to reopen, and then 20 more years to get to the top of the list?) and flexibility about when / which opposition.
To do it properly, but slowly, you could buy membership - you'd need it for both of you, and that would put you in the bottom tier for a ballot, starting the second half of this season - which excludes some fixtures, and doesn't have great odds. But tickets are issued that way and who knows, it might be you.
The legit option without buying membership and entering ballots is to get hospitality tickets. Surprisingly there are some non eye-watering options around £200 ish, it's an expensive day out, but gets you in and you might think it justifiable as a one off.
There's a detailed guide here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LiverpoolFC/comments/1dmi33t/lfc_ticket_buying_guide_2024/ which sets out the process to do it patiently / properly and also shows hospitality options.
I suggest the cheapest hospitality (boot room or reds bar) and don't be too fussy about opponents (or go to a crappy midweek cup game) and buy as soon as it goes on sale.
There are also non legit options, like the ones who were generously promoted in that BBC story. These will get you in. Probably. But if you're gonna gamble, you might as well wait and overpay for access to a busy bar rather than overpay some scummy tout. To give you an idea of how deep that rabbit hole goes, there's a non-zero chance they would send a child to meet you in the street outside and give you a burner phone to use as your ticket.
Does it have to be Liverpool? I don't know where you are but I bet there's more than a few lower league or non league sides local to you who would be glad of your money. My team is Aberdeen but we don't get too many chances to see them but it's fairly easy for my son and I to go to one of the local teams. I really enjoy it, your not as emotionally invested in it and it's quality time spent with my son. You're also much closer to the action and you can hear every witty fan. I saw Bonnyrigg v Spartans last season which was quite feisty and one Spartans player was subjected to a particularly agricultural challenge. After 5 minutes of treatment and suggestion from the home fans that there was nothing wrong with him, he hopped off on one leg, finished for the day. As he slowly made his way off the pitch one local shouted, " Lazarus has risen!".
I've borrowed mates' season tickets on multiple occasions when visiting but that's Reading and they need the numbers nowadays. Have you looked into ticket exchange on the Liverpool site?
Apologies if this is a completely nonsense suggestion to a 'proper' football fan, but have you looked at tickets for the women's game?
I use the word 'proper' because I am not one. I 'support' Arsenal but can barely name more than a couple of the squad and don't really follow the game. I couldn't tell you in the slightest who is where in the league at the moment.
BUT - my (almost 10 yr old) daughter plays for a local team and as such I have been trying to get more into it; even if it is just to keep up with her interest & have something to talk to the more footie mad football dads about.
Ticket availability is much better for Women's matches & not as expensive. We went to see England v's Portugal at Wembley before the Euro's this year & I think it was less than £70 for 3 of us. Great atmosphere, busy stadium (not full) and it was a decent game.
Our local team is Peterborough & so we go to see those games when we can. £7 for adults & £5 for kids. Bargain. The games are generally good and have a much more grassroots vibe to them - couple of quid for an insipid cup of Nescafe instant served in a polystyrene cup 😁.
My daughter's team even got to lead the Posh team out last season & were allowed to wear their own team kit, as well as doing a penalty shoot-out competition against the mascot at half-time.
+1 to what @stumpy01 said. Women's football is one of the best family days out around.
(And at Man City Women home games, your coffee is a couple of quid cheaper than at Peterborough!)
I took my lad to Anfield for is 13th birthday some years ago. It was nigh on impossible back then so god only knows how hard it will be nowadays. It was also hard to plan ahead as the fixtures times/dates were subject to change until the tv schedule was confirmed, so I think we could only look about 3 months ahead when planning hotel etc.
I was lucky to get 2 tickets for a match vs Watford, and my choice was restricted as we needed the 2 seats together making it even harder. Our tickets were got through a friend of a friend via a supporters club. It was a great time as we stayed over and did the stadium tour etc. on match day my lad got some autographs/pics with explayers who were walking into the stadium (Ian rush etc) from the adjacent car park.
Apologies if this is a completely nonsense suggestion to a 'proper' football fan, but have you looked at tickets for the women's game?
Last year we went to see Everton v Liverpool women at Goodison Park. It cost peanuts to get in and was the highest attendance in the womens league at that point.
He plays football to a high standard himself, but is just out injured at the minute, so a bit down at a crucial potential part of his own career. (Everton were looking at him when he got injured a few months back). Liverpool are the club he has always supported and would aspire to play for, and theres no better incentive to keep plugging away than getting that atmosphere at a home match and keep his aspirations moving forward
Thanks for all the advice everyone
Following on from the BBC article above, I’m a Brighton season ticket holder saw on the Brighton website that they’ve announced that they are conducting a large scale “anti tout initiative” for tomorrows game against Spurs where they have cancelled a load of tickets from accounts suspected of illegally reselling tickets. So it looks like clubs are beginning to crack down on this.
I wanted to take my son to a Liverpool game but hit the same issues. We ended up seeing a West Brom Vs Spurs game. Easy to get to from Bristol and we were 2 rows back from the pitch. Tickets bought direct from West Brom. Still an excellent day out.
Have you tried the Hospitality route? I’ve just had a look at the LFC site, but you need to register to see the prices. We used to watch Leicester twice a year a few years ago. No chance of getting a Saturday match ticket without membership etc, but, they did offer a range of hospitality tickets, from something like a burger and drink before the game for £75. We used to have the set menu dinner for around £130, which gave a really good seat just above the dug outs. No doubt prices have gone up from 5 years ago, but £250 for a ticket from a tout seems an awful lot to me when it may be possible to get hospitality for not much more.
Hospitality at LFC for Southampton in Carabao Cup still available at £226 for example. Still some available for the derby tomorrow if you fancy, just £750 each(!). Bizarrely, there were some Atletico tickets available via Ticketzoo recently, but don’t think they were around for long. As mentioned, best bet for normal tickets is buying membership, but that only guarantees you a chance of getting them. Ticket returns via the exchange definitely come up, very much encouraged by the club to use that route if you can’t use your own ticket, I think for those you just have to keep looking, and obviously going to be less chance of a pair. Not much use now but there seemed to be quite a few returned for the first game of the season, potentially as in holiday season etc. Definitely avoid any route that hasn’t got cast iron reviews, still plenty scammers on Twitter etc.
Liverpool fan here. I’ve had membership which allows you the opportunity to enter a ballot twice a year, July and November for the opportunity to be able to buy tickets. This has only worked twice since 2019 season.
The other option is to pay for hospitality for a lesser game like Carabou cup. You can usually get this for around £200 and if quick when fixture comes out there are some kids hospitality for £85.