How to score a ticket to the AFL Grand Final
IT’S THE hottest ticket in town — a seat at the 2018 AFL Grand Final. And Collingwood fans camped out in the city in a bid to get their hands on some. If you’re lucky enough to have your team in the big clash, we have all you need to know about tickets.
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COLLINGWOOD fans camped out in the city in a bid to get their hands on AFL Grand Final tickets.
Devoted supporters had lined up outside Ticketek in Exhibition Street in Melbourne’s CBD for days ahead of tickets going on sale today.
Pies diehard 45-year-old Cindy Pannam, from Bundoora, queued with her kids from Saturday afternoon.
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“It was pretty cold but we rugged up alright. It’s more reliable than doing it online, in case the system crashes,” she said.
“We’re about tenth in line so we’ll be right. We’ve been taking it in turns to stay in line; we’ve got a system.”
Cindym who has been following the black and white boys her whole life, was excited when they scored tickets.
“Successful!! Just got them,” she told the Herald Sun.
The AFL reserve for tickets officially sold out on Sunday.
Update - The @AFL Reserve for the @WestCoastEagles v @CollingwoodFC Grand Final at the @MCG is sold out. The AFL Silver Member on-sales will not be going ahead and no further tickets will be released for sale.
— Ticketek Australia (@Ticketek_AU) September 23, 2018
There will be no on-sale tickets available for silver members.
The AFL is allocating 34,000 seats to be shared among Magpies and Eagles members.
The AFL has confirmed no public tickets will be available to the classic Aussie sporting contest, with even competing club, AFL and MCC members to feel the pinch.
Competing club members will receive the biggest allocation of AFL Grand Final tickets with 34,000 between the two teams.
Eligible members were required to register earlier this week and last, once their team qualified for the Preliminary finals.
The allocation of tickets will be randomly allocated to members who registered, once teams have qualified for the Premiership decider.
In the unlikely event there are any unallocated tickets after that process, they will be made available to competing club members.
A ballot has already been conducted for more than 13,000 pre-purchased reserved seats in the MCC Reserve.
The remaining 8500 seats and 1000 standing room spaces will be available on a walkup basis for Full members when Gate 2 opens at 8.00am on grand final morning.
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Just grab the daily code word revealed nightly on Seven News until Tuesday, September 25, to boost your number of entries. Enter the competition here.
Grand Final Package
One way to get a seat is to buy a Grand Final Package. These, however, have recently been exhausted, but you can still join a waitlist by registering your interest for a package.
Prices for Grand Final packages are between $1180 and $4030.
Fans have been urged against buying from scalpers or secondary ticket sellers.
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