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UEFA have released the ticket prices for this years final at Wembley.

To say that they are mind boggling would be an understatement.

The Greed Is Good League is most definately here to stay,whilst the rest of football struggles.

Ticket price categories open to the international general public are: Category 1 – £300; Category 2 – £225 (or £338 for a youth package comprising one adult and one child); Category 3 – £150; and Wheelchair £80. A total of 500 youth package tickets are being allocated to neutral fans worldwide.

The administrative fee will be £26 (including postal charges) for successful applicants inside Europe and £36 for the rest of the world. Payment will be by credit card only; MasterCard is the preferred payment system, with Diners, JCB and Visa also accepted.

http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=1595625.html#wembley+final+tickets+sale

I suppose if fans are stupdi enough to pay for it then UEFA are stupid enough to charge for it. How the fuck can you have a £26 / £36 admin fee though? Do you get your ticket delivered with a free blow job?

agree. £26/£36 should be the ticket price

A couple of years ago i was on holiday in Rome with my wife and got talking to the hotels concierge.
I jokingly asked him if he get us tickets for that nights game between Lazio and Real Madrid.To our
great surprise he did and the cost per ticket was 20 Euros.

A couple of months ago on the TV,there was an interview with some guys from Dover, who like to
make a couple of trips per season to watch Borussia Dortmund.They get a carload,to keep the
cost of petrol down,but the prices on the huge terrace at Dortmund can be as little as 15 Euros.

Some of the prices charged for football in continental Europe,can be very reasonable.

So, the cheapest ticket for the Champions League final is less than my Season Ticket? Fuck me.

Also, wonderful stuff from the UEFA site:

 "UEFA also encourages fans not to be lured into deals with touts who demand exorbitant prices."

Those ticket prices are a fucking rip off...and don't get me started on the admin fee. For £26/£36 I would expect it personally delivered by a model.

I'm going to try and get a couple. Nothing beats a Champions League Final IMHO.

I would never, ever pay that much money to be a neutral football fan at a final without even leaving the country.

I'm sure I remember it being said that it was cheaper to buy a season ticket to PSG and get to every home game (by what means I forget) than it was to watch most premiership teams for a season. I could well have some crossed wires, but it sounds possible.

Isn't that the way it should be?

That's crap, wouldn't you pay £150 for a ticket if town were in the final? It's UEFA who are to blame, the fans will always pay to see their team.

Like that, other way round. £169 season ticket, £176 Champions League final. Bit steep.

Also from UEFA:
"Tickets for the Uefa women's Champions League final, which is being held at Fulham's Craven Cottage ground on 26 May, are £5.

Marchetti added: "We have different targets and objectives for the women's final."

Bargain hunters take note!

doesnt affect me, never will, therefor i dont care

Absolute disgrace, what recession is that then?

When there's a World Cup one of FIFA's demands it that it's tax free.There has in the past been a

row about the players involved in the CL Final having to pay tax.It wouldn't surprise me if UEFA

have struck a similar tax deal with the host country, .It's estimated that this final will rake

in  22 million quid in gate receipts.

Are the prices really that bad, or out of sync with others?

£300 for the Champions League Final vs £80 for the League One Playoff Final.

Doesn't seem that bad in comparison.

Exactly that. Ideally the tickets should be cheaper in general but in context £150.00 for the biggest game in club football (and arguably in the world) isn't that much imo.

Can I just say though that only 50,000 tickets will be given to the fans of the two finalists. I think that is nothing short of a disgrace. I mean 25,000 tikets for sponsors in which the majority of them have no interest whatsover in football.

How much for a hot dog and a pint?

does Wembley hold 75,000? I thought it was 90k

11,000 go on general sale. The total tickets given is 86,000 because of safety I think.

All that that comparison demonstrates is that football rips off it's customers at all levels. 80 quid was exorbitant for the League One play-off final, 2-300 quid is exorbitant for the CL final. If you want to go as a family, even assuming you can get two sets of the "discounted" 1 adult+child tickets, it's over 750 quid, just for the tickets. Add everything else in and I'll bet you won't see much change out of a grand. What hope does an ordinary working fan have of affording that for one game in the middle of a recession?

The ticket prices are already causing considerable comment and outrage.


The prices represent an increase of about 15 per cent in each category on those for last year’s Champions League final in Rome and mean that the cost of attending Europe’s showpiece club fixture has almost doubled since 2009.

The Football Supporters Federation condemned the prices and the hefty administration fee, saying Uefa “should be ashamed of itself” for setting prices so high.

These prices are absolutely outrageous and take ticket pricing to an absurdly stratospheric new level,” said Malcolm Clarke, the FSF chairman.

“In a difficult economic climate, not only in this country but across Europe, where supporters may be coming from, this represents disgraceful exploitation of fans.

“The £26 administration fee represents the cherry on a particularly disgusting cake. There is absolutely no way of justifying such a high fee and Uefa should be ashamed of themselves.

“It is totally unacceptable whatever country the supporters are from. It will be particularly harsh on fans coming from abroad who have to add travel costs.”

The price rises come despite Uefa president Michel Paltini justifying the final being moved to Saturday to allow more children to attend the game with their parents.

Children’s tickets are available only in the £225 category two, meaning an adult-and-child package will cost £338. Uefa claimed this included a 50 per cent reduction for the child.

Uefa’s director of competitions, Giorgio Marchetti, defended the prices, claiming they were in line with comparable events such as the World Cup final or European Championship final. He denied that prices had been hiked to exploit the London market with its large corporate presence.

Speaking at the ticket launch at London’s City Hall: “The prices are based on the type of event and when you compare it to other events we don’t think that the Champions League final is overpriced.

“We do not want to squeeze every single penny out of the market. We have to benchmark this event against other comparable events like, for example, the final of the Euros and the World Cup.

“Last year there was already a significant increase compared to the previous editions but it’s nothing to do with being in London and it still priced below comparable events.”

The cost of Champions League final tickets has increased hugely since Rome 2009 – the cheapest category C tickets have almost doubled since then, when they cost £69.

A category B ticket in 2009 cost £120 and a category A ticket £171.

Marchetti said the £26 administration fee per two-ticket booking – or £36 outside of Europe – was justified because there were “costs involved”, but did not explain why it was up to 10 times higher than the average ticket administration fee charged by agents in the UK.

“This is the market price. Do you think we would have trouble filling Wembley if the prices were higher? You think it would be different? We try to strike a balance between the interest of the supporters and the interest of the event. Why should we price the tickets lower than what we think is a fair level?”

Asked about the administration fee for the women’s Champions League final, at Fulham’s Craven Cottage on May 26 – where tickets cost just £5 – Marchetti replied: “That is a nasty question. I hope you don’t think the men’s final and women’s final have the same target of people.

“We are not making a profit, we have different targets and objectives for the women’s final.”

Uefa expects income from the Champions League final to top £14 million, £3 million more than last year’s final between Inter Milan and Bayern Munich in Madrid.

"This is the market price. Do you think we would have trouble filling Wembley if the prices were higher?"

As soon as the people running the game start talking like that you know you're fighting a losing battle. It's not about entertainment. It's not about fans. It's not about football.

The reason they sell tickets at extorniate prices is because they can. As unfair as it is, they will still sell at least 80% of the capacity.

God he sounds just like what he is - a whiny self-serving conman. Hate to think what the UEFA/FIFA spokesmen who aren't media-trained sound like

I was going to try to get a few.. not at that price :(

You can apply the same logic to many things in life. If you can't afford it don't buy it, no one is being forced in to it and no one has the divine right to be able to afford something like this which is a luxury rather than a necessity.

Football sold out many years ago and I don't see how bitching about it now is going to make a difference.

It's a one off, what do people expect?

If I could get a ticket, I'd go.

Once in a lifetime and all that

What's the general feeling on Olympic ticket prices then ?

Apart from it happens every year but yeah i get what you mean.

They should be distributed freely and evenly amongst the unemployed who can then sell them on for whatever they want and keep the money, or just go to the games.

If the only thing we're allowed to talk about is things that we can make a difference to, it's going to be awful bloody quiet on here

Yeah, its been what? a good 8 years since it was last held in this country.

These days you are free to travel abroad.  All you need is a passport.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Think you've missed the sarcasm in my post.

I certainly did.  My apologies for being thick. 

You can't help it.

Indeed I can't.  I think you like me though.