I will be in the UK with a friend on Feb. 27 starting what will hopefully be a five city, five match football tour. Hopefully the first match can be this one, LFC v. Auxerre. Does anyone have any lines on tickets for this match or can provide us some assistance? We'd like to sit in the Kop if possible. Can anyone help us? Thanks in advance. Frank
Tickets for LFC matches go on sale to the general public 26 days before the day of game, if there are any left once season tickets and Priority Scheme members have been taken care of. The official LFC website has a number of their European hotline that you call on that day. If you have extra cash to blow, you might want to try a licensed broker. For the Merseyside Derby my friend contacted Premier Events (www.premierevents.co.uk) and we got tickets in the Main Stand at a price that, while expensive, was less than we had been quoted by others. And the service from them was excellent. They overnighted the tickets to our hotel so that they arrived the same day we did.
You may have to go with a broker for this one - by the time this reaches general sale there will be few left and in any case, you will need a stub from the Vitesse Arnehm game to qualify for a ticket. Don't know if brokers are allowed to resell Kop tickets, it's usually in the Kemlyn.
Thanks for the pointers. I noticed that Anfield was less than 1/2 full for the home leg of the last round of the UEFA Cup and that LFC will be playing the ManUre three days later in a Cup final. Also, the tickets will be on general sale BEFORE the away leg determines whether the return game has any meaning. I think I'd rather try to call the general sale than go through a tout. I found 2 tickets to an Arsenal match, the East Anglian derby and the Birmingham derby (not at Villa Park since the 80s) without having to go through a tout. I do not want to break that streak. Never say never, but I'm saying not yet, at least.
For the Champions League game against Galatasaray last year we were able to call up and get seats in the Main Stand. It required us to be up very early, though.
I got tickets to the Chelsea game through the internet LFC.tv site that Ticketmaster runs for them but like Lanky said you've got to get up early in the States because I think its a 10am opening 26 days before the game. So that's 5 EST.
here's the detail on tickets from the official web site http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N138755030129-1505.htm
anybody ever bought tickets on the street the day of the game? is that an option, and how much am i looking at paying on the street? i'll be in the uk during the week of the uefa quarterfinals so there's a possiblity of stuttgart or celtic at home on that thursday. how do they do the 26-day thing if they're not even sure there'll be a game?
The time period will be compacted. I'm looking to be there at the same time. If the game is Celtic, I'd bring lots of pounds as it will be a very, very tough ticket. Celtic will max out whatever the traveling support is allowed, and lots of people will show up from Ireland and Scotland to try to see the game and spend their way in. Stuttgart would be completely different story. Perhaps Matt Clark could address this issue of touts on the street.