{"id":581137,"date":"2025-11-19T20:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/581137\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T20:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:46:12","slug":"ticket-resale-laws-football-not-part-of-government-ticket-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/581137\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticket resale laws: Football not part of government ticket crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Premier League’s “unauthorised” list of ticket sellers contains more than 50 websites including Stubhub and Vivid Seats, where Chelsea owner Todd Boehly is a director and investor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The companies operating the black market resales are registered in countries such as Spain, Dubai, Germany and Estonia. <\/p>\n

They are able to freely do this because the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act only applies to a ticket resale occurring within England and Wales – so they are untouchable.<\/p>\n

BBC Sport looked at four sites on the list which listed tens of thousands of Premier League tickets.<\/p>\n

For example, more than 18,000 tickets were advertised for Arsenal v Nottingham Forest alone – nearly a third of the Emirates’ capacity.<\/p>\n

As part of the investigation we were able to buy tickets easily through the black market for four games. <\/p>\n

Prices ranged from \u00a355 to \u00a314,962, often far exceeding face value and usually including a significant booking fee.<\/p>\n

All our tickets were transferred digitally, in one instance on the morning of the game, and worked as mobile passes.<\/p>\n

The practice has been described as “endemic” in English football, but it’s not going to be stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Premier League’s “unauthorised” list of ticket sellers contains more than 50 websites including Stubhub and Vivid Seats,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-581137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115578325278169864","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}