{"id":593826,"date":"2026-04-08T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593826\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:20:13","slug":"fans-express-frustration-over-nfl-australia-game-tickets-ticketmaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593826\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans express frustration over NFL Australia game tickets, Ticketmaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tickets to the \u201chighly anticipated\u201d first NFL game in Australia<\/a> have \u201cnearly sold out, but frustrated fans say they experienced long waits and have complained of sky-high pricing\u201d for seats at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with restricted views, according to Hannah Kennelly of the Melbourne AGE. The cheapest tickets at $67.12 (all figures U.S.) per person for standing room, and $98.92 for the bottom row, sold out \u201calmost immediately\u201d on Ticketmaster on Wednesday for the September 11 game, with \u201cmany punters complaining they had next to no chance of securing them.\u201d Pre-sale tickets for MCC members and American Express card users for the game went on sale last week and \u201calso sold out quickly.\u201d On Wednesday, many fans said that they experienced \u201clengthy queues and trouble navigating Ticketmaster\u2019s system.\u201d According to NFL Australia, \u201cmore than 151,000 people registered their interest\u201d for the September game at the MCG (Melbourne AGE, 4\/8<\/a>). In Melbourne, Rolfe & Wenn wrote many MCC members, who could access tickets in a pre-sale, were \u201cdismayed when they logged on only to find that the allocation of standing room tickets and the cheapest seats had been quickly exhausted, leaving only the exorbitantly priced seats left.\u201d Restricted view seats sold for \u201cat least\u201d $183.70 each. \u201cVIP\u201d tickets to the match sold for $1,236.71 – $1,978.73 (Melbourne HERALD SUN, 4\/8<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tickets to the \u201chighly anticipated\u201d first NFL game in Australia have \u201cnearly sold out, but frustrated fans say…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85,241845,40884],"class_list":{"0":"post-593826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-ticketing","13":"tag-ticketmaster"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}