{"id":562525,"date":"2026-07-22T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/562525\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:50:08","slug":"liverpool-football-club-issue-bans-as-police-seize-1-2m-of-assets-from-ticket-touts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/562525\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Football Club issue bans as police seize \u00a31.2m of assets from ticket touts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool<\/a> have issued over 400 lifetime bans after more than \u00a31.2m of assets relating to the illegal selling of tickets was seized by police. <\/p>\n

The club worked with Merseyside Police to seize the assets from organised ticket touts.<\/p>\n

The police operation focused on the laundering of criminal proceeds from illicit ticket sales and took place alongside the club’s crackdown on ticket touting, both online and in the ground.<\/p>\n

The club has since issued 432 lifetime bans to the guilty parties, as well as 115 indefinite suspensions. <\/p>\n

Detective Chief Inspector Nick Suffield said: “This is a fantastic example of partnership working between ourselves and Liverpool<\/a> Football Club for the good of the fans and the general public.<\/p>\n

“We will always take action to protect genuine fans who fall victim to touts when all they are trying to do is simply purchase tickets to support their team.”<\/p>\n

From the assets seized, the money was split between Merseyside Police and the Home Office. <\/p>\n

Last year, BBC Sport revealed<\/a> Liverpool<\/a> had shut down 145,000 ticket accounts over the previous two years as part of a crackdown on touting.<\/p>\n

And last season alone, Liverpool<\/a> analysed almost 700,000 ticket registrations, with 67,663 suspected fake accounts blocked or cancelled, and a further 121,379 accounts currently under investigation.<\/p>\n

A further 3,847 tickets were cancelled for suspicious purchase activity in the 2025-26 season. They were put back on sale as general admission tickets, increasing the number available for genuine fans.<\/p>\n

There was also a significant increase in targeted stops carried out on matchdays by the club, who prevented access to the turnstiles for accounts with suspicious activity.<\/p>\n

These stops were carried out at Anfield \u2013 an average of 300 per home game \u2013 and at away games both in the Premier League and in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have issued over 400 lifetime bans after more than \u00a31.2m of assets relating to the illegal selling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-562525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}