TicketsCarabao Cup final: Ballot update and ticket allocation breakdown
Liverpool FC can confirm qualifying supporters who registered for the Carabao Cup final ticket ballot had a 54 per cent chance of being successful, with almost three-quarters of the club’s allocation going to general supporters.
Since the ballot opened last Tuesday (February 11), 35,993 qualifying fans registered to be in with a chance of securing a ticket for the match against Newcastle United at Wembley.
The ballot is managed independently, with each booking having an equal chance of being selected.
Fans were notified of the outcome of the ballot today, with successful supporters then able to purchase their tickets from 11am on Friday (February 21).
The club received a full ticket allocation of 32,210 tickets for this fixture, which will be played at 4.30pm GMT on Sunday March 16.
The chances of being successful in this year’s ballot have decreased by six per cent compared to last season – this is due to more supporters qualifying for the guaranteed sale as a result of the club having more away games and slightly higher allocations at those away games, compared to last season.
Despite this change in the breakdown of the ticket allocation, overall the percentage of tickets made available to our general supporter base has remained static at 73 per cent.
The breakdown of LFC’s full ticket allocation is:
- General supporter allocation: 73 per cent - the same as the 2024 Carabao Cup final
- Contractual supporter allocation; to include seasonal hospitality members and priority rights holders: 17 per cent
- Matchday officials/first-team players/media: nine per cent
- Commercial partners – contractual obligations: one per cent
The club is urging fans to only purchase tickets for the Carabao Cup final from the club, as it is the only official seller of LFC tickets for the game.
Supporters should be aware that ticket checks will be carried out on the day and where a ticket has been found to have been resold, the supporter may be denied entry to Wembley.
If supporters do purchase tickets from unofficial sellers, the club will not be in a position to help if they are refused entry.
LFC will once again use digital ticketing for all fans to access the stadium for the final, which was successfully used for the 2024 final. Please note that these digital tickets are not NFC but will still sit in the digital wallet of supporters’ smartphones.
This year the digital tickets will be added to supporters’ ticketing accounts and will be available to download from ‘My Account’ in the week leading up to the game. There will be no official tickets in circulation ahead of this date, so please beware of any fake tickets.
All general admission tickets are strictly non-transferable and are not available to distribute to other supporters. If any supporter is offered tickets, or is aware of tickets being offered for sale, they can report this anonymously here.
All reports of ticket touting, or online ticket fraud, will be investigated in line with the club’s sanctions process. If a supporter has been found to have offered a ticket for sale online, this may result in a lifetime ban for that individual.
To ensure the safety and security of fans, the club urges supporters who do not have a ticket not to travel to London.
Full details of the selling process are available here.