EPL Ticket Buying

For the match in Goodison last year, I simply paid $40 or so to become a member of the club, then purchased tix the day they came out. Super simple.

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it’s difficult to find tickets and you can get scammed.

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buy tickets via the club

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You won’t get scammed

It’s not that hard from the club if you plan properly

Go through the club or an official club resale site

I had a hell of a time finding a ticket at Anfield earlier this year (ETA, directly from the club.) What I ended up having to do was buy a hospitality package to get a ticket. I'd avoid this if you have a choice. I bought the package more than 90 days before the match.

First, you get a hotel banquet lunch and ONE beer (although the subsequent beers I had to pay for were cheap.)

Second, while the bus ride to the game is fine, it would have been faster to walk back after the match.

Third, a lot of the people you are sitting around are from outside the UK (I think I counted 13 languages I heard) on pilgrimage type trips with kids. Not very many know any chants, so it subdues the energy in your seating area a bit. Counterpoint, I think most of the hospitality seating is in the Anfield Road stand, so you're directly across from the Kop.

The only location available to me was the Hilton hospitality site. It was fine, but not something I'm showing up for that early before a match. I stayed in Manchester for the week, since I'd been in Liverpool before. There is also a direct flight on Singapore on an A350 from Houston to Manchester.

Oh, and if you get an email mentioning a schedule change, read it very carefully. I got an email from them about 45 days out saying the time of the match had changed. No problem, I adjusted my Outlook entry to reflect the new time. What I didn't notice, is that the date got pushed back a day, too. I rolled in from Manchester to the Hilton in Liverpool, and asked the front desk where the event was. They did a really good job of containing their laughter. I checked my email, read carefully, and laughed myself all the way back to Manchester, to return the next day, when the match actually was.

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It’s not that hard from the club if you plan properly

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It was kind of a PITA trying to get tickets via Arsenal's club resale.

Tickets went FAST, so I basically had to check every hour for a few weeks to finally get my hands on two.