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KingslandBarge

Thanks goon. Just my lonesome. How do I find out dates for release days? Is it six weeks out from match date? Im keeping an eye out for tonight.

RocktheCasbah

Usually a month in advance for red members, though it depends on when the date falls - they don't put tickets on sale at the weekend.

RocktheCasbah

QuincyAbeyie

Not very familiar with the system other than silver members being able to book before red members. Does silver members missing out mean that no red members get tickets for those matches or are there separate allocations?

RocktheCasbah

No.

There is an allocation of tickets, I'm not sure how many, but I think it's around 1-1,500 kept back for red members - otherwise, what would be the point of having a red membership?

EDIT: If you look at the website now, it's advertising a red member sale for Nottingham Forest on 12 September despite the fixture selling out to Silvers yesterday.

KingslandBarge

good shout! I've been locked out due to my recent standing outrage carrying over
Edit: I think that fixture is available to red disability access atm but not all red members

James

It would be interesting if the club published membership numbers, and a breakdown of those at the levels (as far as i'm aware, they dont?). I wonder if there's now a greater percentage of silver members, which, along with the obvious increase in demand at the minute, has seen it become much more difficult to purchase tickets. I've never seen demand like it at first silver sale, even for a Cat C game such as Forest.

goon

I asked them the waiting time for me to get to Silver was he basically told me no chance 😆

Said the waiting time is far higher than for a season ticket which is apparently at 5-10 years. It's apparently dependant on people giving up their silver memberships which rarely happens.

Mind you in the thread RtC posted someone suggests they've increased the number of season ticket holders, which would also explain the squeez at the other membership levels.

Qwiss

Seems like we need a bigger stadium. Is there anything in the Emirates design to accommodate expansion if needed?

James

I'm fairly sure it was in the design that the upper corners could be pushed further back, although I expect that would only give you a few thousand more, if that.

There was also a need to improve infrastructure and capacity at nearby tubes etc. More to it than just sticking some seats in ha. Safe standing, if implemented, won't help capacity either.

Qwiss

Yeah the bottle necks at the tube are already bad enough.

goon

I'd imagine most stadiums could be expanded - obviously at different costs depending how easy the current design makes it. But the bigger issue is probably the locals and Islington Council who were the ones who made us run through glass and hot coal just to get 60k approved.

The transport infrastructure would probably have to be upgraded too.

Clrnc

I recently went on a legends tour and Perry Groves say the stadium wasn't designed with expansion in mind so it won't be an easy design to pull off especially as it will affect the amount of light let in (specially designed by Wenger).

On top of that the local council will never allow it.

Big Willie

Think everyone above is pretty much correct. Whilst we could technically increase the the capacity the issue is we'd need permission from the council AND we'd also have to pay for upgrades to the nearby stations. The former is an issue especially since our relationship with the council soured following the whole concert standoff and subsequent court case we lost when we tried holding additional concerts during days that were earmarked for Europe games. Because we were allowed to host concerts during the summer we took it to mean that we could hold concerts at other times and tried to make use of that when we dropped out of Europe early.

With regards to the infrastructure I think originally we considered a new station being built as part of the Emirates complex but Transport for London refused to provide staff for a station that they didn't own and they also refused to allow a station to operate under the network that used non TfL staff so that went out of the window. With regards to potential expansion, we had the ability to add a significant number of additional seats to the stadium but that required upgrade and expanding Holloway Road but that's no longer possible as the area that was to be used for the expanding it had new residences built there.

FEBravo

How does it work for family enclosure tickets? I'm planning to be in London for the Bournemouth match (3 March weekend). I want to take my 7 yo who's dying to go to the Emirates. Does it work the same way if I get her a red junior membership and then you log in and try to get tickets off the exchange? or is there another way? Cheers!

goon

FEBravo pretty much. JG get early access but if you're just a red member then you'll need to ring the box office on the day to try and book with her... good luck though because I've only once been able to get on the hour long queue never mind buy tickets.

With that in mind you'll have to try and be quick for when tickets are released to red members - all tickets sell out insanely fast but particularly family enclosure tickets.

I've given up trying for PL games, going to try and get to an FA Cup game with them assuming demand is lower.

RocktheCasbah

https://help.arsenal.com/support/solutions/articles/101000373755-who-can-buy-tickets-in-the-family-enclosure-

FEBravo

Cheers guys!

Clrnc

Think I have asked before but gonna try my luck again, does anybody knows what's the best way to get tickets for West Ham away and Liverpool away?

I could get the home tickets but don't want to restrict myself not celebrating our wins...

James

Think you’ll really struggle to be honest without knowing someone who has the away credits. Maybe look into local supporters clubs, who will get an allocation of tickets.

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