FA Cup tickets

Rounds at club grounds

Before Wembley, the home club sells each tie through its own ticket office and website, and decides the prices, the priority order and whether there is a general sale at all. Big clubs usually start with season ticket holders and members. At a smaller club, a home draw against a famous visitor can become the most sought-after match of its season, and regulars tend to be served first.

Visiting supporters buy from their own club, which sells its away allocation, often to the members with the most away credits or loyalty points. If your team has been drawn away, the hosts' box office is not the place to look: watch your own club's ticket news.

Semi-finals and final

For the Wembley rounds, each club involved sells its own end of the stadium to its supporters, normally in priority groups: season ticket holders and members with a record of buying cup tickets come first, then wider membership groups if seats remain. Club Wembley members also have seats at cup finals through their memberships, separate from the clubs' allocations.

Because the official route nearly always runs through a club, a membership with a purchase history is worth more in the FA Cup than any single sale date.

The final at Wembley is the showpiece of the English season's cup calendar, and with each finalist selling to its own supporters, neutral fans rarely get an official route into it. The semi-finals are at Wembley too, so they are easier to plan for than a tie at a club ground, but they depend just as much on club priority.

In the earlier rounds, demand follows the draw. The ties fans chase are a non-league or lower-division side at home to a Premier League club, a local derby, or two top-flight sides meeting in a single knockout match. Those games often sell out to the home club's members, while less glamorous ties can stay on general sale until matchday.

As ties are scheduled, they appear in the table with the selling club's status beside them, so you can see straight away which ones still have an official sale open.

For each listed tie, the table gives the lowest resale listing seen on Hellotickets, so you can set it against the club's own sale before deciding.

On Hellotickets, each seller picks the price, which can exceed face value, and you see the final total before paying. Where a club runs an official ticket exchange, it usually resells season ticket holders' and members' seats at face value, so check that route first if you are eligible.

For resale bought close to a tie, allow for delivery: Hellotickets passes tickets on as soon as the seller hands them over, which can be just 1–2 days before the event.