The Australian Football League (AFL) has handed around 1,000 extra Grand Final tickets to Western Bulldogs fans after opponents Sydney Swans failed to sell out their allocation.
The tickets will be offered to the 1,500 Bulldogs members who went into the Grand Final ballot who still don’t have a ticket.
The AFL allocates about 15,000 tickets to members of each finalist, but demand among Bulldogs fans has been huge with the club having reached the Grand Final for the first time in more than 50 years.
“There was a number of standing room tickets, a couple of hundred, that weren’t taken up by Swans members who applied for the ballot,” AFL spokesman Patrick Keane said.
“They are being transferred over to Western Bulldogs members, who applied in the ballot and were unsuccessful.”
AFL Fans Association president Gerry Eeman welcomed the decision amid an ongoing campaign to see a greater ticket allotment to members over corporate groups.
“We completely congratulate the AFL for doing the right thing,” Eeman told the Herald Sun newspaper.
“We called last week for any allocation that is left over from one club to go to the other club. What we don’t want is leftover ticket allocations to end up in the hands of more neutral and corporate packages.”
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