Fans have chance to get hands on tickets for big final
IT’S the biggest sporting event to come to Cardiff – and now fans have been able to apply for tickets for the Champions League final for the first time.
The ballot for tickets to the final, which will be played on June 3 at the Principality Stadium, opened yesterday – and closes on Tuesday, March 28, at 11am.
A total of 41,500 of the overall 66,000 tickets will be available to fans and the general public. Prices range from £60 up to £390. But with the two as yet unknown finalists receiving 18,000 each, it leaves only 5,500 available for sale to supporters worldwide.
Those wishing to apply need to visit https://championsleague.tickets.uefa. com/lottery/welcome_en.html
The Uefa site notes: “This is NOT a first come first served ticket sale, you have until March 28 at 12:00CET [11am in the UK] to apply for tickets and time of accessing the portal will not influence your chance of being successful in the lottery.”
Applicants will find out on April 7 if their bid is successful. Price categories available for the general public are: Category 1, £390; Category 2, £275; Category 3, £140; and Category 4, £60. Each applicant can apply for a maximum of two tickets within the same price category.
Tickets are for the personal use of the applicant and the named guest only, and the applicant must attend the game.
Uefa warns that “neither the applicant nor their guest may sell, offer for sale, auction, resell or otherwise transfer tickets”.
Corporate hospitality packages are also on sale – starting from £1,900 per person.
Yesterday saw the draw for the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League.
Leicester City – the only remaining British side – have been drawn against Atletico Madrid.
Fans are hopeful the Foxes can make it to the final.
Cardiff City fan Jordan Forster from Treforest said: “Real v Leicester it’s the only story worth telling. The rest have been there done that. Leicester v Monaco is the ultimate underdogs.”
Jordan Evans, 25, a Swansea fan who lives in Adamsdown in Cardiff, has applied for a ticket for the final.
He said: “I would love to see Barcelona in the final. I can’t see them not getting there after their amazing comeback against PSG.
“Ideally I would like their opponents to be Dortmund. They both have such an attacking style of play and I think a game between those two would be manic.
“I feel like an enemy of football saying it but I don’t want to see Leicester make the final because I don’t like them as a club.”
If he doesn’t get a ticket Mr Evans plans to go into the city centre to soak up the atmosphere.
He said: “If I don’t get a ticket I would want Juventus to get through. The Italians would be great fun on a night out.”