CL League Phase Draw 2025/26 | Fixtures (pg 32)

New criteria announced for Monaco incase anyone has missed it. Not much up take if it’s dropping down to 22,000
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
Does anyone seriously follow the club advice and not book any flights until they're guaranteed a ticket?
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Just answering my own question but after deciding to travel without a ticket I suddenly became eligible for the revised criteria.

If I had followed the club advice and waited until 10am this morning then I could have taken advantage of Easyjet's Manchester-Nice-(Tuesday-Thursday) return flights for just £928.12

My loss!
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
Just answering my own question but after deciding to travel without a ticket I suddenly became eligible for the revised criteria.

If I had followed the club advice and waited until 10am this morning then I could have taken advantage of Easyjet's Manchester-Nice-(Tuesday-Thursday) return flights for just £928.12

My loss!
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The club usually get the criteria spot on but they were way off this time
 
Mcfc1.9.8.0 said:
The club usually get the criteria spot on but they were way off this time
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I agree that they frequently get it right but not sure they've got a single set of criteria correct yet this season. I think in the Champions League they always struggle to gauge interest. I remember them saying Young Boys would sell at about 20k on the cup scheme and it didn't even sell out!
 
HateUefaLoveCity said:
I agree that they frequently get it right but not sure they've got a single set of criteria correct yet this season. I think in the Champions League they always struggle to gauge interest. I remember them saying Young Boys would sell at about 20k on the cup scheme and it didn't even sell out!
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I got my ticket from.the OSC
Is it now open to all on Cup scheme
 
HateUefaLoveCity said:
I agree that they frequently get it right but not sure they've got a single set of criteria correct yet this season. I think in the Champions League they always struggle to gauge interest. I remember them saying Young Boys would sell at about 20k on the cup scheme and it didn't even sell out!
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I honestly think the club are caught between two stools for the Champions League as so many Premier League regulars just can't be arsed, and it's not as easy as just reducing the cost because we had the same issue when it was all a novelty in 11/12

Make it too easy to get a ticket and everyone complains about being surrounded by non City fans, plus we'll have loads of crowd trouble v Galatasaray.
Make it too rigid and we struggle to sell out, especially the first game.

However, as many of us keep posting, anything around 50,000 is a good crowd, and far higher than those rose tinted memories of the early 70s when we were the ECWC holders and still struggling for more than 30,000 against the likes of Linfield and Honved, despite it being far cheaper
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
I honestly think the club are caught between two stools for the Champions League as so many Premier League regulars just can't be arsed, and it's not as easy as just reducing the cost because we had the same issue when it was all a novelty in 11/12

Make it too easy to get a ticket and everyone complains about being surrounded by non City fans, plus we'll have loads of crowd trouble v Galatasaray.
Make it too rigid and we struggle to sell out, especially the first game.

However, as many of us keep posting, anything around 50,000 is a good crowd, and far higher than those rose tinted memories of the early 70s when we were the ECWC holders and still struggling for more than 30,000 against the likes of Linfield and Honved, despite it being far cheaper
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If there aren't 20,000 lapsed Blues with 3 or 4 games purchase history then we're fucking up badly somewhere.
 
Mcfc1.9.8.0 said:
Big surprise this 1000 allocation and dropping down this low
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No surprise to me whatsoever with such an antiquated criteria system.

Those top pointers (myself included)
have been going for so long that they can now pick and choose their fixtures and still be eligible for a ticket for the Old Trafford derby

Liverpool's system for the CL is far fairer and their demand is higher


Meanwhile, the Monaco game is less than a fortnight away and the vast majority of the City fanbase are still not eligible
It's not the easiest to get to either
 
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