All Ireland Finals tickets thread (buying/selling/swapping etc.) Mod Note Post #1

Hammer Archer

To avoid cluttering up the respective match threads, we've decided to set up a dedicated thread for everything to do with All Ireland Hurling and Football final tickets, including users looking to buy, sell or swap tickets. Any posts about tickets in other threads will be moved here.

All Ireland final tickets do not go on general sale, so you won't find any on sites like Tickets.ie or Ticketmaster.

To those wanting to buy/sell/swap tickets, there are some rules you need to read before posting.

• DO NOT post personal contact details (phone no., email, home address etc). Any ticket transactions should be done via PM.

• One of the main things is that we do not like touts. If you're selling tickets, do so at face value. Selling tickets above face value leads to the tickets being cancelled by the GAA resulting in punishments to the club the tickets were assigned to. Anyone selling tickets for above face value will be banned until the end of the championship. If you receive a PM offering tickets above face value, please report it and action will be taken.
  If you're looking to buy tickets, don't offer to pay more than face value.

• Unfortunately, Premium (or Príomh) tickets can't be sold here. The terms and conditions of Premium level tickets preclude selling them on for any price and the GAA are clamping down on any of these tickets found online by banning the owner.

• We do realise that it's unlikely many tickets will be sourced on this thread. However, if you do get an offer to sell, ensure you get the ticket(s) as soon as you hand over any money

• Finally, posting details of club/social media draws to win All Ireland tickets isn't allowed or we'd be inundated with them

If you have any general queries about tickets, feel free to post them here.

Please report any posts that you feel breaks these rules. If you are unsure about anything, feel free to PM me or one of the other mods and we'll try to clarify things.

Kavrocks

I'll get in here nice and early.

I'm looking for 2 tickets to the All-Ireland Hurling Final! I would really appreciate if somebody had 1 or 2 spare or knew somebody who did that they could let me know please.

ReacherCreature

I'm on the hunt for two tickets to the All-Ireland hurling final but just one is OK too. I didn't have the opportunities to go in 2010 or 2011 so if anyone can help me out and point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it!

Loughc

I'm also looking for 2 tickets for All Ireland Hurling Final, but will settle for one Up Tipp!

flando

I'm looking for 1 ticket to the All-Ireland Hurling Final! If someone can help can they please PM me please.

JoeCole26

Anyone have 3 spare tickets for the game on Sunday - Mayo v Kerry. Preferably Cusack or Hogan lower.

Thanks

oconnol1

The drive for tickets for the 2014 All Ireland Hurling Final Starts.

Best of luck to both teams.

September 7 2014.

oconnol1

oconnol1 wrote: »

The drive for tickets for the 2014 All Ireland Hurling Final Starts.

Best of Luck to both teams.

September 7 2014.

Any idea when the Clubs will receive tickets anyone.

I see a few premium seats for sale on eBay already.

Mountainlad

If anyone comes by a spare two tickets I'd be interested, Hill 16 or Cusack/Hogan

ProudDUB

JoeCole26 wrote: »

Anyone have 3 spare tickets for the game on Sunday - Mayo v Kerry. Preferably Cusack or Hogan lower.

Thanks

Tickets for Mayo v Kerry are still available on tickets.ie.

Mantis Toboggan

I'm on the hunt for two all Ireland hurling tickets. Not really bothered what seats they are.

Would take 1 ticket if it was available.

Can collect them if it suits.
Pm me if anyone can help.

donnem33

i am looking for 2 tickets for the all ireland hurling final!

ive only missed 1 final since 1996 but finding it difficult to get tickets this year as galway do not have a team competing unfortunately

if anyone has any spares i would greatly appreciate it! thanks

oconnol1

Hello all, looking for 4 tickets for the Hurling Final. One for my mum who is 80 years young on Sunday 7 sept 2014.

Mayo Club 51

JoeCole26 wrote: »

Anyone have 3 spare tickets for the game on Sunday - Mayo v Kerry. Preferably Cusack or Hogan lower.

Thanks

There were some season tickets going spare earlier over on our facebook page. Maybe leave a message there? facebook.com/mayoclub51 Plus you will get them at face value €35.

Tipsy McSwagger

Looking for 2 for the hurling final. It's genuinely* my girlfriends birthday that day and would love to bring her.



*I will show the seller her passport as proof

OlaPoxka

Looking for 2 tickets for the hurling and football final. Would really appreciate it if any are going. Send a PM if you do

oconnol1

Have the clubs received their tickets yet?.

Tipperary animal lover

Got my tickets sorted this morning bring on the final

oconnol1

Tipperary animal lover wrote: »

Got my tickets sorted this morning bring on the final

Hi are the tickets with the clubs yet

glued

oconnol1 wrote: »

Hi are the tickets with the clubs yet

Don't think so. Next Tuesday morning is what I heard.

oconnol1

glued wrote: »

Don't think so. Next Tuesday morning is what I heard.

Cheers, can I ask where u got them.

Walt Grace

Hi all

Looking for 2 tickets for the hurling final. Hon Tipp!

Cheers

glued

oconnol1 wrote: »

Cheers, can I ask where u got them.

Local club. Seems to be a big enough demand this year. The problem is always the same with AI tickets. Everybody wants 2-3 stand tickets together and loads of people end up with Hill tickets that they don't want. They eventually get stand tickets and then the market is flooded with loads of Hill which end up being sold in pubs before the game. It should be easy enough to get tickets.

From experience KK are better at distributing tickets than Tipp.

.skid

Can tickets be bought online?

ProudDUB

No.

Volvic12

Looking for two premium tickets for Hurling final. Have two premium tickets for Donegal v Dublin this weekend that can swap if that was of any interest to Dublin or Donegal premium ticket holders.

realdanbreen

Looking for 1 x Hill 16 ticket for the all ireland hurling final, can travel to collect.

sarahann123

Hi Im looking for three tickets two adults one child
I have been to all tipperary this season just cant get my hands on tickets
Any help would be greatful

Diabhal Beag

I have a spare 303 Cusack because I have **** on all that weekend but I don't want to give it to somebody who doesn't go to games. Face value obv and you'd have to travel to Galway to get it but I sat in the same row for Galway Kerry and the view is not great. Send me a PM but be warned I have a possible buyer in Limerick.

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Thunder_Seagull

All that is for sale online is premium level at huge prices.. donedeal, adverts & ebay

shmeee

Thunder_Seagull wrote: »

All that is for sale online is premium level at huge prices.. donedeal, adverts & ebay

Don't buy any of them as they can and will be cancelled and you will be stuck outside.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/gaa-launches-war-against-allireland-final-ticket-touts-as-prices-reach-375-30543164.html

Plenty of tickets will surface next weekend as they have over the years, if you want to be in Croke Park, you will be! Yet to know someone who went up to an All Ireland hurling final recently and not got a ticket for somewhere at around cost price.

Young Blood

What a stupid way to distribute tickets. Is it possible to buy them at GAA headquarters or Ticketmaster?

shmeee

Young Blood wrote: »

What a stupid way to distribute tickets. Is it possible to buy them at GAA headquarters or Ticketmaster?

Hows it stupid?

That's the way tickets have always been distributed and only the past few years have then come for sale online and in-shops. Before that, they were all available through clubs or the county board.

Tipperary only got 10,000 tickets and these have to be divided up between all the clubs. The clubs are the backbone of the GAA and they should be looked after first before any Joe can walk in off the street and buy a ticket in a shop on on-line.

Reports around Tipperary this evening that tickets may go on general sale next week, terrace only, but again only REPORTS!

Young Blood

shmeee wrote: »

Hows it stupid?

That's the way tickets have always been distributed and only the past few years have then come for sale online and in-shops. Before that, they were all available through clubs or the county board.

Tipperary only got 10,000 tickets and these have to be divided up between all the clubs. The clubs are the backbone of the GAA and they should be looked after first before any Joe can walk in off the street and buy a ticket in a shop on on-line.

Reports around Tipperary this evening that tickets may go on general sale next week, terrace only, but again only REPORTS!

'Any Joe off the street' is entitled to go see the match if they like. It should be the same with rugby tickets, obviously keep some for the clubs but I really hate this backward sh.ite with having to know someone.

Where will they be for sale according to the rumors?

TouchingVirus

Young Blood wrote: »

'Any Joe off the street' is entitled to go see the match if they like.

No, not really.

shmeee

Young Blood wrote: »

'Any Joe off the street' is entitled to go see the match if they like. It should be the same with rugby tickets, obviously keep some for the clubs but I really hate this backward sh.ite with having to know someone.

Where will they be for sale according to the rumors?

Again, Tipp only got 10,000 tickets, 71 clubs in Tipp need to be looked after. Some getting more tickets than others. Then there is the county board officials, the players and management team to be looked after. You wouldn't be long getting rid of 10,000 tickets. Some clubs will be doing well to get 20 tickets between over a 100 or more members.

And any Joe could have bought a season ticket of the GAA at the start of the year and attended the required number of games to have the option of an All Ireland stand ticket in the near middle of the Cusack, and now would have a ticket sitting on their locker at home and no worries. It's that easy for any Joe.

And having to know someone thing. Pay membership and join a club and then tickets may be a bit easier. 30quid or so won't break the bank if it means you get a €80 ticket for the AI.

Middle of next week if any are returned to the county board. Hill tickets according to a few this evening.

PS. I've yet to know of anyone who went to Dublin looking for an AI hurling ticket over the past number of years and failed to get one and not get ripped off either, near enough around face value.

Young Blood

TouchingVirus wrote: »

No, not really.

Why not? The GAA has got plenty of funding from the government in the past. Tax payers money and all that

hurlingman97

sarahann123 wrote: »

Hi Im looking for three tickets two adults one child
I have been to all tipperary this season just cant get my hands on tickets
Any help would be greatful

There are no child tickets for All Ireland Final.

Diabhal Beag

Same reason why Six Nations tickets aren't available for your average Joe.

hawthorn

How much are they this year??

glued

hawthorn wrote: »

How much are they this year??

40 for Hill or Nally, 80 for Stand.

Mountainlad

shmeee wrote: »

Hows it stupid?

That's the way tickets have always been distributed and only the past few years have then come for sale online and in-shops. Before that, they were all available through clubs or the county board.

Tipperary only got 10,000 tickets and these have to be divided up between all the clubs. The clubs are the backbone of the GAA and they should be looked after first before any Joe can walk in off the street and buy a ticket in a shop on on-line.

Reports around Tipperary this evening that tickets may go on general sale next week, terrace only, but again only REPORTS!

They'll surely get more than 10,000 by the end of it. Like there allocation would be bigger than Kilkenny's you'd assume (but maybe 10,000 each for a start, although Kilkenny have the minors as well

That would leave 60,000, and I know every County gets some but not that many. And again corporate tickets don't make up that amount. There's surely another 25,000 tickets on the above allocations (at least) to be distributed between the Counties.

TouchingVirus

Ticket distribution breakdowns for the All Ireland finals appear in the annual congress reports every year. From the last two years roughly 58,000 tickets go to county boards. It's two for every club in the country I believe (mad IMO) so that's 5k/6k then there's allocations for the participating counties at both minor and senior level (say 10k each) and you're at 45k. Not a whole lot left to distribute, certainly not 25k

Mountainlad

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Ticket distribution breakdowns for the All Ireland finals appear in the annual congress reports every year. From the last two years roughly 58,000 tickets go to county boards. It's two for every club in the country I believe (mad IMO) so that's 5k/6k then there's allocations for the participating counties at both minor and senior level (say 10k each) and you're at 45k. Not a whole lot left to distribute, certainly not 25k

45k? As in between 4 teams at minor an senior?

This year there are three teams competing, and the minors hardly get the same allocation as the Seniors.

TouchingVirus

Mountainlad wrote: »

45k? As in between 4 teams at minor an senior?

This year there are three teams competing, and the minors hardly get the same allocation as the Seniors.

Going by the 2012 and 2013 distributions after clubs get theirs there will only be ~52,000 tickets to distribute between the three participating counties.

I reckon Limerick will be given a generous allocation even at minor level, expecting that it won't be fully taken and then will return to the pool for redistribution to the seniors. Even so, if the two seniors started at 10k there'll be no 25k top up for either of them, you'll be lucky to get a 12k topup

Mountainlad

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Going by the 2012 and 2013 distributions after clubs get theirs there will only be ~52,000 tickets to distribute between the three participating counties.

I reckon Limerick will be given a generous allocation even at minor level, expecting that it won't be fully taken and then will return to the pool for redistribution to the seniors. Even so, if the two seniors started at 10k there'll be no 25k top up for either of them, you'll be lucky to get a 12k topup

I was thinking 25k between the both though?

Expecting there will be counties returning tickets? Especially say the Dubs, and the winners of Kerry/Mayo trading tickets.

TouchingVirus

Mountainlad wrote: »

I was thinking 25k between the both though?

Expecting there will be counties returning tickets? Especially say the Dubs, and the winners of Kerry/Mayo trading tickets.

Hah, super presumptious that we're going to win on Sunday :P I'd say you're closer to the mark with 25k each post swaps. Those tickets still won't be abundantly available :pac:

Mountainlad

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Hah, super presumptious that we're going to win on Sunday :P I'd say you're closer to the mark with 25k each post swaps. Those tickets still won't be abundantly available :pac:

No doubt, but just 10,000 seemed like such a small allocation. I guess the source isn't the main thing. I'd be expecting around 30,000 Tipp fans. Does that sound right?

TouchingVirus

From my reading of it if there's 30k Tipp fans it'll be a miracle because they'll need all the clubs allocations from every county and there to be virtually no interest in the minor. 22-25k is more reasonable IMO. The same will hold true for the AI Final teams too, that's why tickets are so hard to get

shmeee

Mountainlad wrote: »

They'll surely get more than 10,000 by the end of it. Like there allocation would be bigger than Kilkenny's you'd assume (but maybe 10,000 each for a start, although Kilkenny have the minors as well

That would leave 60,000, and I know every County gets some but not that many. And again corporate tickets don't make up that amount. There's surely another 25,000 tickets on the above allocations (at least) to be distributed between the Counties.

Kilkenny got 13k due to minors, Limerick got 3k, Tipp got 10k. Every county gets tickets so then around 32k or so between the other 29 counties.

Here's a breakdown from a few years ago, figures have changed a bit since with more season tickets also.

County allocations: 58,401
Provinces: 335
Overseas: 470
Central Council and former Presidents: 798
Camogie: 120
Ladies’ football: 150
Rounders and handball: 147
Sponsors: 935
Press: 254 (we want some of these)
TV and radio: 74
Schools and educational bodies: 2,229
3rd Level: 240
Croke Park residents: 250
Match officials and national referees’ panel: 103
Irish Sports Council and health bodies: 60
Match day / Vertigo / minor teams: 148
GAA staff and sub-committees: 718
Jubilee teams: 68
Mini-sevens: 244
Term tickets: 4,144
Season tickets: 1,884

The above doesn't include premium or corporate tickets.

You'd be amazed where tickets would go.

shmeee

Mountainlad wrote: »

No doubt, but just 10,000 seemed like such a small allocation. I guess the source isn't the main thing. I'd be expecting around 30,000 Tipp fans. Does that sound right?

Tipp fans source tickets from all Over the place, we often get tickets from cavan for the hurling finals. Tipp will have 30k or so there supporting them.

The 10k allocation is what the county board got. Many will get tickets through different bodies and sponsors etc.