FA confirm final allocation
The FA has confirmed the ticket allocation for this season's FA Cup final.
The Football Association has confirmed that FA Cup finalists Chelsea and Manchester United will each receive approximately 25,000 tickets for this season's showpiece.Both clubs met with FA officials on Wednesday to thrash out out the deal, which sees an increase of 1,500 tickets on the number that last season's finalists, West Ham and Liverpool, were granted for the game at the Millennium Stadium.
While supporters of neither club are likely to be over enamoured with the numbers cited, the FA has defended its decision to allocate 30 per cent of tickets to what they call 'football and the football family'.
An FA spokesman said: "The FA Cup final is a unique sporting event. This year the demand for tickets will be greater than ever due to it being the first cup final back at Wembley.
"It is undoubtedly the biggest domestic cup final in the world and as such it belongs to the whole country as well as the two competing teams and their supporters.
"It is also an occasion to reward the thousands of individuals who give up their time and energy to football, without whom the grassroots game would not function."
