So, who gets all the grand final tickets?

FOOTY fans have called for a fairer share of grand final tickets, as details of how the AFL dishes them out can be revealed by the Mercury.

Leaked documents show that more than 16,000 tickets go to AFL affiliates instead of to true footy fans.

The AFL Fans’ Association says far more tickets should to be allocated to members of the competing clubs, and less to corporates, sponsors and the clubs not playing on the day.

The AFL documents detail ticket allocations for last year’s Richmond-Adelaide grand final. They reveal that AFL commissioners received 128 tickets and the “AFL executive allocation” was 382. And 551 grand final tickets were given to AFL staff.

Of the 99,870 allocated by the league, just 33,957 were made available to members of competing clubs, and 4192 of those were standing room or restricted view.

Among the rest, 25,133 went to MCC members, 15,456 to AFL members, 5905 to other AFL clubs and 3152 to Medallion Club members.

But 16,228 were allocated to “AFL entitlements/contractual obligations”. A breakdown of this reveals:

7281 tickets went to “corporate sale functions”;

1043 to “corporate partners’’;

124 to past AFL commissioners;

118 to “licensing”;

108 to 16 AFL presidents;

103 to “legal associates’’;

and 25 to “Government affiliates’’.

AFL Fans’ Association president Gerry Eeman said the allocations would “ruffle some feathers’’ and showed there was “clear room’’ for more tickets to be given to the two competing clubs.