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The Australian Football League (AFL) is set to allocate 1,000 more tickets to competing club members for this year’s Grand Final.
The increase takes the competing club member allocation to 35,000 with the extra 1,000 member tickets this year coming from AFL corporate and premium hospitality allocations. This year’s match takes place on September 28 at the 100,000-capacity Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)
Competing club members receive the largest allocation for the match. After that, the biggest proportion of tickets goes to Melbourne Cricket Club members, then AFL and Medallion Club Members, other stakeholders, and hospitality customers in descending order.
“The big and passionate membership bases of our clubs are the heartbeat of a match day and the commitment of the AFL is to ensure we can get the two competing club members both for this year and beyond more tickets in order to reward those who are most dedicated to our game and our clubs,” said AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon.
“The Toyota AFL Grand Final is one of the biggest and best sporting events in the world and the fortunate reality is we could sell out the 100,000 seat MCG four times over, so we need to continue to find the balance.
“For the ticketing release in September we will always prioritise our competing club members, with the biggest share of tickets available to those two competing clubs, and this year more available to those members.”
There are still six rounds left to be played, with round 19 the next as it is scheduled to take place from July 19 to 21.
In the Grand Final, each team’s members will have 17,500 tickets.
This marks an increase of 500 from the 2023 edition that led to Collingwood lodging a complaint towards the AFL and its ticketing partner Ticketek.
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