Register here -  https://www.fai.ie/ireland/fans-direct-form" rel="nofollow - https://www.fai.ie/ireland/fans-direct-form , tickets typically go on sale 1-3 months before a game. Anyone can register, even if you've never been to an away or haven't had a season ticket before.

You can also apply through a supporters club, they manage their ticket allocation themselves.

The vast majority of games are under-subscribed, games away to top seeds, any of the British teams and to smaller stadiums are less likely to have spare tickets. 

It's best to go to games that fewer people will go to, likely 4th, 5th or 6th seeds and destinations that are harder to get to. Besides, these are usually better trips.

Feel free to ask any questions, there's no stupid ones, we all started somewhere.

So is it still a requirement to be a member ? No bother signing up if needs be.

If you apply for away ticket via the portal then you are a member of Fans Direct.

That's what I thought anyway

Ah ok so, I just never signed up using the form. Must have been an automatic thing then as soon as i used the portal. 

Makes sense. Cheers for that 

Think alot of people are in the same boat, fitting all in over such a short space on time will be difficult. 

If you are to believe what we are told, friendly games dont count on your record, so the french game wont matter.

Wouldn’t imagine so. Even the most seasoned of away travelers won’t be expecting a ticket for this

Just on that, and this is simply by way of example, I've not missed an away game since 2011, when I wasn't in Moscow, and I'm not sure I'll get what I'm after if this is in Gibraltar. Now, I didn't get tickets to Andorra or Estonia from the FAI: fair enough, though I did get in. But since going to the Faroes on my own in November 2012, I've applied for a minimum of two tickets for me and a friend of mine to every competitive away game, starting with Sweden in March 2013. The only time we didn't get two was for Glasgow 2014 (we got none). Other than that, we've received a *minimum* two tickets to every competitive away game (often three or four), including the likes of Bosnia, Cardiff 2017 and Copenhagen. Hell, we've even taken about ten or twelve away friendly tickets. But if this game is in Gibraltar, I would not be confident that we'll get two tickets for it. I reckon they might give us one and we'll have to decide between ourselves who gets it. That's just how tight it is likely to be for this one if they have it in a 2,300 seater stadium and the FAI will only have 315 tickets (5% plus 200).

Now, I think there is a plan to extend it to 8,000 but I don't think that'll be done by March. Not sure though.

If you apply for say 3 tickets do you get all or nothing?

Can't actually remember not getting what I actually applied for bar Scotland (away)

you would need 10/10 and send endless amounts of vanilla slices to Abbotstown 

I only go by whats on my account, i.e 3 season tickets with aways so 3 tickets

So assuming for Gibraltar it would be Poland, Bosnia, Serbia, Moldova, Austria, Georgia, Wales X2 and Denmark X2 ?

I applied for 6 wanting 4 but got the 6. 

Howdy, new to the forum and wondering when are we likely to hear if applications for tickets are successful or not after the closing date? Have one in for the Swiss game in October.

Thanks

Everything gone underground?

Seems to be down for me too. 

away.fai.ie is the website. Maybe try tomorrow. 

They were all working. The redirect link in the email sent out wasnt working but if you went direct to the site it was fine.

Fai websites look to be down in general at the moment 

I’m both new to the forum and to away games as I’m only a “young fella”.

I was planning on Portugal and even booked flights but without any hope of tickets I stupidly decided not to go.

I have my Fai Ticketmaster account set up and I have filled out the form for the away portal but haven’t got any email with details etc since. 

Fully intending on going to hopefully Azerbaijan and Luxembourg or at the very least 1 of them.

Could anyone tell me if there is anything else I must do? Or just wait and hope an email comes through with details for my away login.

Also, as soon as season tickets become available I will be getting one in 114 or as close as possible. These are bought through the Fai Ticketmaster account also I am assuming?

Looking forward to the start of many years following TBIG, no doubt I’ll be made welcome as I will be going solo from the start.

Thanks lads,

In Kenny We Trust.

I am the exact same as you anyway haha

Cria.warren@fai.ie

I am looking to start going as regularly as I can from next year, but am a newbie because same as the lads above I am still "A young Fella" and will be going on my own.

Want to start doing it properly now, I have tried registering for the fans direct but it doesn't seem to work so I'm not sure how I get into the away portals? 

Just email this email and you'll get credentials, you can add the season ticket if you want too but it's optional

Link to buy Season Tickets.

Only way to buy individual home match tickets is Ticketmaster. For away games you will need an account. If youre having difficulty setting it up email customer-relations@fai.ie

Really?  I've just forked out 500 euro for a Stone Island jacket. 

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Is there any downside to them not chasing that up and me just adding them as a supporter profile on the portal myself?

I would advise get their own. Me and my mate had a joint account and identical records but for the oversubscribed Gibraltar game they would only give us 1 ticket.

it's the fai you're dealing with here 

I expected a welcome pack and a free beanie!

Couple of qs re euro tickets.

Does having a season ticket get you priority for euro 2024 tickets or is it a free for all on uefa website?

Same as above re having away points?

Do supporters clubs get tickets for euros?

Cheers

Apologies if these questions has been asked before;

1) Does having a season ticket increase your chances of being accepted for a ticket?

2) I'm looking to set up a supporter profile on the away portal. There's an option to add a season ticket number. My season ticket is under someone else's name, how would I work around this?

For context, I'm looking to go to the Netherlands away game in November.

Thanks in advance!

Howya,

No it doesnt increase your chances, the Holland game will probably be oversubsribed also.

With regard setting up your account, you will need to send an email to cria.warren@fai.ie to register your account as the email to register is currently not working.

Any other questions do let me know

A ST does increase your chances! 

I stand corrected! I would have no idea how to work around this being on a different account though seeing as it is not under your name

For Greece originally it was 2.

They never mention season tickets . 

Maybe if there are a number of people on the same amount of always they give priority to those with a season ticket but it doesn’t state that anywhere . They used to advertise the season ticket as receiving priority for aways- they don’t anymore 

This will be my first away game - is it safe to assume I'll not be in with a chance of getting tickets for the Netherlands?

In recent years it was indeed season ticket & x amount of away games being the criteria.

I think since covid if I'm not mistaken it's been just x amount of away games.

Luxembourg email did mention season ticket plus aways

Rightly so. Why should a fan get a ticket ahead of Johnny cokehead 🤔

In fairness to the bag merchants they still bothered their hole to get on a flight to Athens.

Personally think the Season Ticket should really count towards your record if you're coming to home games from outside Dublin, but sure that'd be too difficult to enforce.

Depends on how much they give us really, some games don’t over subscribe when you think they will. I wouldn’t throw in the towel that easily. 

It’ll be a popular one, especially if were still in with a chance of qualifying which does seem unlikely.

A word of advice would be to build up your record in games with less demand, for example Gibraltar in Faro is a great opportunity 

Also, it’d be worth setting up your away portal account asap as it seems to take a while for it to setup 

Cheers pal. I've my account set up on the away portal and was actually thinking of going to the Gibraltar game anyway (work permitting!).

So you'd be punishing people for living in Dublin????

Would be some amount of people getting tickets delivered to friends and cousins down the country or abroad!

1. Is it better for us all to set up individual portal accounts and apply for 1 ticket each separately on our accounts or should I set up 4 profiles on the one Portal account?

2. We have 4 season tickets but they are all under one email. Is it possible to transfer the season tickets so that we each have one on our own emails?

Thanks.

2: Yes. Really no need for any grown up to be piggybacking on someone else’s account. It also has the added little benefit that each individual will receive the pre sales email links etc instead of relying on the main account holder. 

If you have more than one kids you should get bonus points for away games. If you have an elderly parent you should also get bonus points and if you get the home care package you should get a further bonus points.  The fai away scheme should basically be run like the dept of social welfare. 

Yes, the account is managed through Ticketmaster and you can log in using your Ticketmaster account but I didn't think it allocated you an FAI customer number (could be wrong on that).

If you've not had one before, an FAI account number would be allocated once you sign up through the FAI Ticketmaster portal and is available to view in the account overview