Carabao Cup Final 2019 - Sold Out

Can someone explain why this is so hard to buy a ticket.
I don’t understand why today when I got the email about general sale I cant buy a ticket for me and my kid.

I can buy one adult. That’s it.

How do you do it if you want to go with some mates? You all have to be online together and select seats together but in separate accounts and then hope they’re allocated correctly?

How the hell can a kid under 17 buy a ticket and when they do they’re only allowed one so they can’t sit with their folks? I don’t understand it.

I ended up having a mate buy the seat next to mine at full price so my 9 year old can come and enjoy his first cup final. We both logged in together and bought one ticket each. It’s absurd.

Have I missed something here?
Yes.

You needed to have registered as a Blue member for yourself and your son.

If you want to buy with mates, just group them as friends and family. Then you can buy tickets on their behalf.
 
Yes.

You needed to have registered as a Blue member for yourself and your son.

If you want to buy with mates, just group them as friends and family. Then you can buy tickets on their behalf.

Ok so I am registered and have an online ‘cityzen’ thing- but not the annual paid membership. I thought that is the criteria for the tickets that were released Monday?


I just have a regular account.- and the kid has an account I created on Monday- but I didn’t expect there to be still criteria for buying tickets- for under 17 year olds?

Does my kid have to have purchase history too?

Why can’t I just buy 2 bloody tickets!
 
I don’t see anything wrong with criteria ... it’s a fair system ... people with no purchase history have to wait till after the people who have been to games before ... complaining that one can’t take a family member to Wembley final (but hasn’t been to Etihad even once before? - comment not targeted at anyone in particular but general example) ...

First it’s the season card holders on cup scheme, then season card holders without, then Cityzen members who pay £35 every year (£25 for kids) exactly for this previllage to be able to buy tickets before general sale (and for big games even that starts at some points, e.g. last year’s final started at 1,000 pts first for even Cityzen members) and then it goes to general sale with purchase history (for a lot of fixtures even at etihad like top six etc never go on general sale without purchase history) ...

As I said I think it’s fair criteria ... the only thing they’ve changed since the new ticketing system came in at the start of this season is that now you can’t buy a different age band than the member/registered account anymore, so a child can only buy a child ticket and adult can only get an adult one (which again it stops people buying for others e.g. friends buying for ones kids or kids account being used to get an adult family member or friend one) but then that’s what they’re trying to encourage, whose account is buying a ticket should be the one attending and not people reselling on etc.

Whoever wants to watch City, should have their own account with the club and if you then want to or can afford buy the appropriate membership else wait for your turn as per the criteria for each game which clearly steps down on the points system (which is altogether another debate, but in generalised terms it’s as fair as they can make it).

AND it’s not going to get any easier going forward ... with City’s name growing around the world and support growing with it ... so whoever wants to get in, get in on the system that is now and start building your own history/points etc. for future years ... a couple of years from now even Cityzen memberships will have points criteria going down like it does for seasoncards and also I don’t see any game ever reaching general sale in a few years time ... e.g. Liverpool QF last year there was also a time limit as to when you’d have had purchased your Cityzen membership, there was a cut off date to stop people from buying a Cityzen membership just to get a ticket for that one game ... which would be the case for later stages of CL this season again I guess depending on the draws.
 
  • All Cityzens with a 2018/19 Platinum, Gold or 93:20 Seasoncard can purchase an additional two tickets – Wednesday 13th February at 9am
 
Just above nothing showing as available. Nothing on level 1. 64 seats on level 5. Just short of 300 of the expensive club Wembley ones. I assume the restricted view tickets will be available next.
 
Just had a look
Club Wembley L2 Blocks 228, 230, 231- about 206 corporate at 150.00
Elsewhere 549 had 4 wheelchair - now showing sold - thats it all gone

LOL Now half a dozen seats appeared in 540 and 549
 
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Club Wembley/middle tier have never been sold by City before to my knowledge. That must be a new system where they are funnelled back to the clubs, increasing our allocation. I'd have bought one there if I'd have known they were available earlier in the sale window.
 

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