Final is almost €1000 euro for cat 1

Might take in a few games this time though seeing as we'll have little travel if we qualify 

Not sure if I'll bother with the public phase either.

The main thing is that it is not clear which game will be in Spain if we both qualify & if we are away. At the minute, it could literally be any of the games.

The game on 19 June is the only one worth applying for from our group, as the one in Bilbao in the second round is on 20 June.

The last thing you want is to have a ticket for the game in Dublin if we are playing Spain in Bilbao on the same day, as UEFA will not allow you to buy a ticket for two games on the same day.

I might change my mind and apply for final tickets during this phase all the same, even with those mad prices.

Could always sell it on the portal if it comes to that? Think I’ll apply anyway for the Dublin games as would still like to go to the games if we don’t qualify.

So there's no point in using the public sale to get tickets for the Dublin games then ?

I'll probably just applying through the FAI if we get there anyway. Probably be plenty of tickets available through that allocation 

I'd imagine fai will get allocated between 5-10 thousand for this if we qualify. Anyone with a decent record will get sorted through them like what happened in 2016.

Anyone that had little or no away record be worthwhile trying to get tickets through the public sale as will be no chance of them getting 1s from fai. People will think having a season ticket will see them getting tickets but can't see that happening

Yeah I agree can't see a season ticket having much effect on its own. It's an away tournament technically so it'll be season ticket and away record.  

Just have to qualify first 

A season ticket will be very far from being enough. You'll definitely need a good away record if we do qualify.

I suppose it is possible to apply for tickets for all the Dublin games which is 50/50 to host all our games if we qualify automatically, will definitely have two Ireland games if we qualify and, even if we are away to Spain in Bilbao, there'll be 1/3 chance that you can get the ticket for the Bilbao game without having to sell the Dublin game ticket, if we are away to Spain in the middle game.

And if we don't qualify, then at least you'll have tickets for all three group games in Dublin.

Will probably come back and look at it again after the Denmark game because that will probably give us a fair idea of what our chances might be like.

Either way your probably going to have season ticket holders who only go to home games being left disappointed by the FAI allocation if we qualify.

Would there also be a potential last 16 game in Dublin?

We cannot play in Dublin in the Rof16.

If Spain and ourselves qualify directly then we draw lots for the home game.  

If either Spain or ourselves qualify via the playoffs then the team that qualifies directly has home advantage.  

If one of us fails to qualify then the other has 3 home games.  

Draw in Copenhagen and we are on our way

If we qualify we are guaranteed to be in 2 of the first 3 games in Dublin with a possibility of being in all 3.  The 4th game (Rof16) will involve the winners of England's group and the runners up in Germany's group.   

Was having a look at potential games in the last 16 and venues last night. Still a bit disappointed with the format, and fact wr have no choice but to go in a group with Spain.

different answer for different people.  

1)  It depends on what you think your chances will be from the FAI's allocation if we qualify.

2) It depends on whether you would go anyway or only want to see us.

I think tickets will be very easy if we don't make it.  If we do......

Yeah my chances would be quite high. Not worried about that, the away record is quite good and come the end of the campaign should be at 7 or the last 9.

Been thinking about that 2nd point before. Would really depend on the game if I'd go but again have to decide in the next few weeks weather to apply or not.

Yeah my chances would be quite high. Not worried about that, the away record is quite good and come the end of the campaign should be at 7 or the last 9.

Been thinking about that 2nd point before. Would really depend on the game if I'd go but again have to decide in the next few weeks weather to apply or not.

If we don't make it I don't see tickets being too difficult unless there is a well supported team drawn here.  Poland, Northern Ireland and Wales would fill it.  England would for the Rof16.  Not too many others I can think of.  Portugal v Croatia might be a great game but would struggle to fill the Aviva.  

Absolute rip off 
Group stage and round of 16
Category 3: €50 
Category 2: €125 
Category 1: €185 

Some jump between cat 3 and cat 2 

There are no fees on top.  however really expensive.

Even for Portugal v Croatia in Dublin 185 euros for the back row of the East Stand near the corner flag is an awful price.  35 euro for a normal home game.  Same price if Kosovo v Slovakia.     

I’d be amazed if there was any issue for tickets for group stage if we don’t qualify. 

Even if we do; tickets won’t be as hard got as one may think. We wouldn’t sell out the home leg of a World Cup playoff at those prices.

Are premium tickets a separate category again?

If you're referring to the Premium level in LR, then I doubt it - if my experience at Euro 2016 was anything to go by:

 

I was at 2 games at Stade de France, Ireland v Sweden & Germany v Poland, both Cat 1.  For the Ireland game I was in the lower tier where facilities where the usual bog-standard ones that you'd expect for general admission but for the Germany game I was in the middle tier, which looked very much like their premium level for non-tournament matches, from the posh-looking corridor linking each section right down to the arm rests (including drink holder) in the seats which you certainly didn't get in the lower tier.  I even managed to get a free tournament programme after that game. 

Premium are just sold as normal tickets.  you could get a cat 3 in the south premium.  Reality is though that many will be used for the hospitality tickets.  

It'll be run like a regular away game so I imagine it will be a season ticket plus 'x' number of the last aways in order to get a ticket. 

There are various hospitality packages.  Many are just an expensive normal seat.  

Have you heard this from a good source or is it a guess?

I don't know and have been trying to find out how it will be done.  My best guess is that it isn't decided yet. 

It may well be as you suggest.  However there is a school of thought that season ticket holders should be looked after as well.  So you could offer one game to a season ticket holder particularly if we were lucky enough to have three at home.  

It's technically an away tournament so should be run like every other tournament has been, season ticket and x amount of aways.

You can't cater for every FAI season ticket holder who only goes to home games, it just wouldn't be possible. 

He might not have needed a history given we had decent allocations for those games and all away regulars would have been sorted so it works it's way down through the rest of the season ticket holders then.

I would say a lot of season ticket holders should get sorted anyway. For the last Euros I only had 2 season tickets previously and applied for Cat 1 in all games and was successful. Have a much better record now 7 out of the last 9 aways and the season tickets so will be safe enough but hopefully we get a decent allocation so the tickets fall into the right hands. We will probably have 15000/16000 season ticket holders and I’d imagine our allocation would be about 10,000 for the games at home so some season ticket holders will be lucky.

Yup agree there, all supporters with an away record are fine. Like I said you can't cater for every season ticket holder and like you said some will be lucky. You'd imagine some sort of ballot would be held for season ticket holders.

That wont be none till the draw is made

It’s a while since I read it but I think finishing first or second has no relevance. It’s automatic qualification over qualification via playoff if I remember right or understood it in the first place.

10,000 pre tournament draw tickets

15,000 to each set of football associations 

10,000 to sponsors 

Now between the raffle in August for tickets and trough the FAI after the draw is made every season ticket holder should be sorted, the only thing is an over subscription for the €50 tickets and not enough for the higher priced tickets. Personally I’ll be applying for the higher priced ones as we don’t have any travel expenses and Ireland playing in a major tournament on home soil will be a one in a life time experience.

65% after abbey and football family get their cut.

EDIT: Actually would abbey be entitled to tickets, i cant remember what way 2016 worked, but they aren't a UEFA agent.

The FAI decide how to allocate the FAI's allocation.  There is an argument (I don't agree with it) that all season ticket holders should get one game each.  This is a historic home tournament.  

We could still be playing in Bilbao on any of the 3 matchdays.  Likewise Spain could be in Dublin on any of these days. 

You don’t agree that season ticket holders should be entitled to a ticket? Why? surely the most loyal fans should be looked after.

Yes i understand that the FAI allocate the tickets. I'm saying if they follow the way they've done every other game and 2016 then it's season ticket holders with away record and then other season ticket holders which I'm assuming is done by ballot. 

I also don't agree that each season ticket holder should get one each. That would be grossly unfair on anyone who's travelled across Europe and to every home game.

Yeah when teams qualify. Think it's December and then after the playoffs for the others 

 

Careful now, there are different level of loyal didn't you know??!

I think he means that each season ticket holder would be given just 1 game each if we were to qualify which would be unfair on those who have excellent away records and they were treated the same as someone who's been to say 2 or 3 home games 

Sorta my thinking too. Applied for all four in Dublin (Cat C), though ticked box to accept higher category. If France 2016 anything to go by, no way will I get all four. Got one I applied for there, turned out to be Wales v Slovakia in Bordeaux, which I was going to anyway whether we qualified or not, so it worked out handily after we did qualify. If we qualify for 2020 I'd be confident of getting tickets for all our group games (and anymore games if we get outta group) due to season ticket and away record, so if there's any clashes for any tickets I get in the ballot I'll try and resell them at face value. I seem to remember a resale portal for 2016, so assuming it will be same this time round.

I'd be wary of that bit. For Euro 2016 you couldn't buy tickets for more than one game per day. Not sure if the same rule applies this time around but if it does and you get tickets for the Dublin game in this ballot and then we end up in Bilbao on that day you won't get one for the away game.

It does, aye. Worth the gamble, I think. No mission of getting all four in the ballot, I'd imagine. Case of crossing that bridge if I come to it 

The only one in Bilbao to apply for from our group is the one that's not on the same day as a match in Dublin. That's the middle one... and that leaves you open to us being in Bilbao for the first game, which would mean you go from Dublin to Bilbao to Dublin to Bilbao to Dublin, and that's before the group stage is even over!

I might leave it at applying for semi final and final tickets only, at this stage.

Yeah think I'll do the same and just go for the knockout game in Dublin and go through fai allocation if we qualify 

Gotcha - do this just to cover bases to make sure we potentially have tickets to all Irish matches. But if we are away to Spain it isn't set in stone that it will be the second match of the group. 

Personally I'm not going to bother doing this. You'll spend a couple of hundred on games we might not be in and if they aren't appealing games then you'll have a hard job shifting them unless of course you plan on going regardless.

If you've any sort of away record it looks like getting tickets through our own allocation might be the best way.

I'll probably just go with follow my team just incase we do get out of the group and to avoid the scramble for tickets.

I know! My point is that that is the only game you can actually apply for certain that you'll not be screwed over as a result.

If you hold tickets for games on the same day as Ireland games, no matter how good your record, UEFA won't let you buy tickets for an Ireland match on the same day.

That being the case, the safest match to apply for is probably the second one, the Dublin game on its own, rather than the Bilbao one. If we are in Bilbao the following day, so be it. If we aren't, and are at home, all the better.

I really can't see UEFA putting any of the host nations at a major competitive disadvantage by playing their final group game away to another host nation

Also on your point UEFA will want to fill these stadiums as best as possible so it would be stupid to schedule on Matchday 3 a game at the Aviva kicking off at the same time as Ireland are playing in Bilbao, or having a dead rubber at Hampden while Scotland are playing England at Wembley etc.

I would be confident that away games for any host nations will be scheduled for Matchdays 1 or 2

Not had time to look at the UEFA application thing, i hope to get to Georgia as well as having been in Denmark and have season tickets so hopefully I'll be ok to get FAI allocation, but feels risky not to apply here too?  

But date clashes and rule about not getting tickets for 2 games the same day has my brain fried at this stage.

This is going to massively inflate the draw numbers - I can actually see a lot not being taken up in this round (assuming they do the draw once only) with people firing in all sorts of random applications now and deciding later not to take them up when they have to pay. Might not be the case for Dublin but definitely other cities

I applied for tickets earlier today.  Hope I didn't make a big mistake.  Did the 15h June game in Dublin, 20th June in Dublin and 24th June in Bilbao I think.  Ticked the box for all categories. 

Hope I wont be lumbered with a huge bill for games I dont need.  Is there a sell them back to UEFA system in operation if your team doesn't qualify?

I thought that but my reading is if you apply for every game, if successful you pay for everything in one go or nothing. You can’t cherry pick, so doing your plan could leave you with a huge bill. The application process generates a total charge for each application.

Join Scabsoff88. you don't need a record but you just need to be in the clique. tickets sorted  

I think that’s the best option.

Will have a pop at the cheap ones for the final too.

Your best chance will be CAT1 which has the large majority of seats.

Then 2

Then 3

Simples 

Definitely but the cost of Cat 1s is ridiculous.  I think they'd be impossible to offload if we didn't make it.  

Applying for Cat 2 is not so bad and does increase chances over Cat 3.  

Buying €185 (or even €125) tickets when we've about a 30% chance of us being there, not for me.

Can you not remember people paying €300 in Bordeaux? A lot probably haven’t been to a game since but the Euros puts some people mad

Was that when we were guaranteed to play there? If Ireland had already qualified people would pay it. Nobody is going to pay that to watch a random match in the slim hope we qualify.

Most would rather pay nothing now and double in the eventuality that we do.

Yeah you pay straight away if successful, from other posts though if we qualify and aren't in Dublin on a given day and you have a ticket for a game in Dublin then you can get a ticket for our game say in Bilbao, I could be wrong but that's my understanding.

Just going to wait for the follow my team / fai allocation if we get through.

There was massive demand for Denmark home in 2017.

I believe selling out the Aviva at €185 (most of the tickets as everything between the corner flags) will be no problem if we are there.  However if we don't make it Poland, Northern Ireland and Wales just about are the only ones.  The Rof16 game should sellout to England fans.  

Poland are on course to be a top seed so cannot draw Spain who also seem likely to be one.  There is a good chance we could end up in the same playoff as Wales and Northern Ireland which would help demand for Dublin as the winners would most likely be drawn here.

If applying for any tickets be prepared to use them or forfeit the money.  Most games in 2012 in Ukraine were on the portal for the first half of 2012 non stop.  No chance to get your money back.

I expect many games to be like that and then massive demand for others.    

Regardless I'm still going to the matches in the unlikely event we don't qualify. 

I think alot of applicants are unaware that if you get your chosen games and you want to go ahead and purchase that you have to financially commit to all the games you applied for and not a selection of the games you applied for

Everyone should only apply for what you are willing to afford under the risk that we won't qualify. I'm just applying for Cat 3 for all the 4 Dublin games and for Fans First for the final despite the odds being low I will get any, no way I am committing to paying €125 or €180 for tickets to games at the Aviva that could end up being Hungary vs Bosnia

You won't get one as far as I can tell. You'll already have a ticket against you so won't get another one 

For 2012 & 2016 the FAI accounts were separate from your UEFA one.  I had the Warsaw semi final through UEFA and FMT to the final from the FAI which could have included the Warsaw SF. In 2016 I had the Lyon Rof16 game which ended up being the France match.  I also had a ticket via FMT.

I actually checked with the FAI and was told it was OK.  

It is certainly true that if you are allocated a Dublin ticket from UEFA you will not be able to buy a Bilbao ticket that day.  Even if you subsequently sell your Dublin ticket back via the portal I think you are often blocked (not certain here).  

If we don't qualify, I'd still go to the matches in Dublin except for an England RO16 game.

That could work... the only thing is that you have to supply details for every ticket applicant and give addresses & passport numbers.

When I've done it in the past, I've always used different addresses where possible and mixed up the passport number with a single typo, so no automated checks show it as the same person. e.g. if your passport number is PG3729502, put it in as PG37295O2, and no one will ever notice that the letter "O" is used instead of the number "0". If your passport has a 0 or 1 in it, change it to O or l (lower case "L") and you'll bypass all automated checks.