Celtic have registered their unhappiness with the SFA over ticket prices for the Scottish Cup semi final with Hearts or St Mirren.
Prices for the North Stand are £23- only £2 cheaper than for Sunday’s League Cup Final with Kilmarnock.
With a 12.45 Sunday kick-off and live televising of the match it’s likely that the National Stadium will be little more than half full.
A club statement read: “Celtic has advised the Scottish Football Association of their disappointment regarding the price of the North Stand tickets. As always, the Club expects to bring a large support to Hampden and we are disappointed in the pricing of the North Stand which will be occupied by Celtic supporters for this game.”
Hearts or St Mirren supporters will be housed in the West Stand where tickets are priced at £15. The East Stand, for Celtic supporters, will also be priced at £15 with the North Stand costing £8 morE.
The ticket money from both semi-finals is pooled and split four ways meaning that Aberdeen and Hibs will benefit from the increased numbers of Celtic supporters at the semi-final.
Should Celtic reach the final it’s almost certain that Hibs or Aberdeen will demand more tickets for the final for their once-a-season supporters while Celtic fans scramble for cup final tickets.
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Its murder a can’t make the semi cause i’m offshore at the time but still need to buy a ticket so am in with a chance of a final ticket. hail hail
“Should Celtic reach the final it’s almost certain that Hibs or Aberdeen will demand more tickets for the final for their once-a-season supporters while Celtic fans scramble for cup final tickets. ”
let’s just concentrate on getting to the final before worrying about any of that
Got a bad vibe about the semi with hearts. That’s the last team I wanted to be honest
Celtic fans should boycott this nonsense. The team would understand. At a time when the other clubs are desperately trying to take advantage of Rangers cheating by lumping Celtic and Rangers together and trying to screw money from Celtic supporters the time is right to refuse to give them any of our cash. Don’t go to their rancid grounds and don’t go to the hell-hole that is Hampden. If you do don’t complain.
I agree.Boycott all away grounds.That will knock some sense into them.
I dont understand why they are unhappy, Celtic have been given allocations to the north Stand £23 and the east stand at £15. Hearts have been given allocations to the South Stand £23 and West stand £15.
I would imagine even though this semi is on a Sunday lunchtime it will still be a near sell-out. agree aberdeen v hibs will be half empty and they should not recieve any gate reciepts from other semi.
cant see the problem here except having to split the money with Aberdeen/Hibs! Hearts will easily sell half the stadium!