12 Dec 2018 13:04:47
Thought the FA dictated the ticket allocations for FA Cup ties?!
Our allocation of less than 3000 from Chelsea is very poor.

{Ed001's Note - it is a percentage of the overall gate that is a minimum they can give, unless there are valid safety reasons not to. According the to FA Cup rules and in particular section 21. (a) the distribution of tickets should be as follows:
"In all matches preceding the Semi-Finals, the Visiting Club shall have the right to claim up to 15% of all accommodation for which tickets are issued providing these tickets are in a fully segregated area."

They can reduce it based on not having a segregated area or advice from the local Safety Advisory Group (which is made up of H&S, local council, emergency services etc). The other factor is that your club might not have requested the full 15%. That happens quite a lot.}

1.) 12 Dec 2018
12 Dec 2018 16:11:03
Thanks for clearing that up Ed.
I am not sure of the exact capacity of the Chelsea’s ground nor whether Forest turned down additional tickets but I reckon we took in excess of 4000 fans to an evening Carabo cup game last year so this is strange.

If the capacity is 40000 that would have provided circa 6000 tickets which we would have sold quite easily.

I suspect the local police have curtailed the allocation due to home games in the capital that day.

Sad and strange.