By 40 Years A Blue
March 31 2006

Finally details of ticket allocations for the FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool have been announced and Chelsea have been allocated 29,908 which will start to go on sale from Wednesday 5th April 2006.

Prices for tickets have been set at £55, £45, £35 and £25.

Again after mischievous press reporting Chelsea were forced to issue the following statement.

It read, "Chelsea categorically denies any suggestion that it requested a 5.15pm kick-off at Old Trafford. The club is fully aware of the travel difficulties this kick-off presents for our fans and would never have requested such a time. The decision was entirely a matter for other parties and at no stage was Chelsea consulted, or given an option, over the time.

Chelsea can confirm it was made clear to the Football Association that Old Trafford was the club's preferred venue for a semi-final purely on the basis of ground capacity, as the other options available would not have satisfied the demand from our season ticket holders, let alone our members."

Ticket selling arrangements are as follows - 75% will be sold online and 25% will be sold to personal callers at the box office.

- from Wednesday 5th April (7am online, 9am personal callers), season ticket holders will have a three-day period to purchase a ticket, one per person.

- from Saturday 8th April (7am online, 9am personal callers), members will then have a three-day period to purchase a ticket, one per person. Please note there will only be online sales on the day of the West Ham game (Sun 9th April) with no sales to personal callers at the box office.

- from Tuesday 11th April (7am online, 9am personal callers), season ticket holders and members will then be able to purchase a further two tickets - subject to availability

No telephone, fax or postal applications will be accepted. If purchasing at the box office then you must bring all the relevant teamcards, no teamcard - no ticket. No seating area or price range can be guaranteed and all sales are subject to availability.

All members of the Premiership UK away travel club will also need to purchase their tickets during the above period.

Chelsea can also confirm the club will be providing subsidised coach and train travel to Old Trafford for the match. Exact details of this are hoped to be confirmed by Monday and will be published as soon as possible.

40 YEARS A BLUE

COME ON CHELSEA!!