{"id":536331,"date":"2026-04-17T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536331\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:31:09","slug":"chelsea-fa-cup-semi-final-tickets-todd-boehly-linked-website-selling-at-inflated-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536331\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea FA Cup semi-final tickets: Todd Boehly linked website selling at inflated prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FA Cup semi-final listings span all four stands, but are not the only Chelsea<\/a> match for which Vivid Seats is offering tickets.<\/p>\n

It has listings for all six of the Blues’ final Premier League games of the season, with prices between $149 (\u00a3110) and $4,372 (\u00a33,231).<\/p>\n

And tickets are already available for the FA Cup final, priced at $452 (\u00a3334) and $4,912 (\u00a33,630).<\/p>\n

In practice, resale sites offering tickets at inflated values contributes to ticket touting and leaves genuine fans at risk of missing out altogether on tickets to some events.<\/p>\n

CST contacted the Premier League last month to express concerns about Boehly’s involvement with Vivid Seats, asking the league to consider whether the 52-year-old is in breach of competition rules.<\/p>\n

In a letter of response, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters wrote: “Whilst we understand the concerns you have raised, based on the information currently available to us we are satisfied that Mr Boehly’s involvement with Vivid Seats does not implicate a breach of Premier League rules and, as a result, we do not intend to take disciplinary action at this stage.”<\/p>\n

But the CST was not satisfied with the response.<\/p>\n

“The Premier League has effectively acknowledged that its current rules do not address ownership links to secondary ticketing platforms, meaning this situation sits within a gap in the system,” it said in an open letter to the club following Masters’ explanation.<\/p>\n

“While there may be no technical breach, that does not make the situation acceptable.”<\/p>\n

Last season, Chelsea<\/a> ejected 1,393 people from Stamford Bridge for possession of touted tickets, while 2,740 accounts linked to touts were cancelled.<\/p>\n

More than 350,000 attempted ticket purchases were blocked by their ticketing system.<\/p>\n

If somebody trying to enter Stamford Bridge were found to be in possession of a ticket purchased at inflated value from Vivid Seats, they would in theory be refused entry, despite the ticket being purchased from a site in which the club’s own chairman has a financial interest.<\/p>\n

“Chelsea<\/a> have invested a lot in ticket touting and we’ve worked closely with them on it,” Ross added. “They have been cancelling touts’ memberships and fair play to them, they’re taking it seriously.<\/p>\n

“But it undermines all that when people are still touting their tickets through a service linked to the chairman.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FA Cup semi-final listings span all four stands, but are not the only Chelsea match for which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-536331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}