GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - APRIL 20: Celtic's Alistair Johnston celebrates during a Scottish Gas Men's Scottish Cup Semi-Final match between St. Johnstone and Celtic at Hampden Park, on April 20, 2025, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Rob Casey/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Aberdeen have secured a 50-50 split of tickets for the Scottish Cup Final against Celtic on May 24.
While Celtic brought close to 40,000 fans to their semi-final against St Johnston Aberdeen fans were in the minority with an attendance of 39,836Â given for their victory over Hearts.
At the League Cup semi-final at Hampden in November Celtic were given their usual 50% allocation plus half of the North Stand and sections of the West Stand.
Traditionally the SFA like to push for a 50-50 split in ticket allocations for the Scottish Cup Final with the Aberdeen board of Directors putting in a guarantee that they will sell their North Stand allocation.
Priced at £50 for adults in the North Stand they are now relying on their fans buying up over 20,000 tickets.
The Aberdeen website announced:
After extensive discussions, we were initially faced with the option of accepting a guaranteed 16,800 tickets, with a potential (but not guaranteed) additional 2,000 tickets.
However, driven by our collective belief and confidence in the Red Army, and wanting to give every Dons supporter the best opportunity of being there to back Jimmy and the team on Saturday 24th May at Hampden, we agreed to underwrite a larger allocation which includes the North Stand up to the halfway line.
We believe this significant allocation is a testament to our commitment to ensuring as many fans as possible can support the team at this crucial match, our first Scottish Cup Final since 2017.
Ahead of the League Cup Final with Rangers in 2023, which was our last final at Hampden, our allocation sold out within a matter of hours, and we expect demand to be similar this time round as we look to bring the Scottish Cup back to Aberdeen for the first time since 1990.
With the above in mind, we advise all Dons supporters to use the coming days to organise friends and family to be ready to secure your tickets on Monday 5th May, as we aim to make history together.
Ticket prices have been frozen from last year’s final with concession pricing in place in all areas of the stadium. Full ticket information can be found below.
Hampden has a capacity of 51,866 but from that Debenture Tickets aren’t made available to competing clubs, other tickets are distributed to member clubs and sponsors.
With Celtic pushing for the treble, their sixth in nine seasons there is bound to be plenty of demand for packages to watch the match in the hospitality suites and Sports Bars at Celtic Park.
North and South Stand tickets are priced at £50 for adults with the East Stand at £40.
How many did they take to the Semi? THAT should be their allocation… Brass neck of a so called support
Always the same and always facilitated by The SAFCOTW association…
SAFCOTW = The Scottish Approving Fans Coming Outta The Woodwork association !
What is actually being proposed here is a club paying for empty seats and locking the opposition fans out who would snap them up ?. Correct me if I am reading this wrong.
They might make a kind jester and offer them as freebies to the klan,but just what team would they be supporting,the mighty Don’s who they can’t stand and have as much hatred for them as well as us.
They’ll never sell that allocation – scudding them 6-0 in the League Cup semi-final saw to that. Their expectation will be to lose to us and probably lose heavily, so why waste well over £100 per skull on tickets and travel when you can just stay in the boozer and watch the FA Cup Final instead? Only their real diehard types will show up for this one.
On a related note, anyone know when our tickets are being released? I have the worst phone reception imaginable at my workplace and if I’m allocated a ticket will need to arrange to be somewhere else at the time they go on sale…..
Isn’t the FA Cup final a week before ours ?
So it is. Most unusual.
Well the feckers can watch the DFB Pokal or the Coupe de France final instead then. If they’re really desperate they can watch the Womens Champions League Final…….
The attendance for beam backs to the Parkhead hospitality suites and sports bars will probably be bigger than the attendance in their end of Hampden.
So if it true Aberdeen FC have received 20,000 and will buy them all even if there fans don’t snap them up which will leave empty seats as they have purchased their allocation.
Celtic fans don’t get the opportunity to snap up unsold tickets, TYPICAL SFA BEHAVIOUR.
P.S. I Hope they can sell 20.000
Celtic fans will be locked out if Don’s cannot sell that 20.000,how to ruin a showpiece game of football,only the SFA could do this.
I’ve no problem with equal distribution of tickets as long as they are sold and not too many ‘freebies’ are given to the SFA and their kindred shower and/or Roy Keane’s “prawn sandwich brigade”.
BUT, if the sheep’s allocation is not sold, and proven to be sold, then their unsold tickets MUST be made available to Celtic FC supporters only and in a timely fashion, e.g. 7-10 days before the game.
Last time the sheep were in a final it was vs US and I watched it, with my two brothers and nephew (another brother to me) in a wee club in Nantwich. Tom Rogic scored a late winner for us to make it 2-1.
The best part, a ‘Crewe’ supporter kept popping into the wee room we were allocated for the match to check the score. He ‘popped in’ just after Tom scored that terrific winner and by fuck was he sorry. I dragged him around hugging him (and saying how brilliant eveything was) and my family followed suit. That prick left that wee club one very disillusioned, ‘disappointed’ hun bastard! HH
Very apt Tic Tic given that The Sevco Huns are some ‘Crewe’ !
In fact do they not have a Sevco riot Crewe…
Aye, very good Clach 🙂