Olympic Stadium season tickets selling fast

The process to relocate 26,000 season ticket holders from the Boleyn Ground the Olympic Stadium is gathering pace with the final two weeks of band 2 sales before they move on to band 3 appointments in October and band 4 in December.

Bond Holders together with Band 1 and 2 season tickets are thought to account for up to 14,000 supporters and visitors to the West Ham Stratford reservation centre have been told that 20% of all fans have taken up the ‘plus two’ offer of introducing new season ticket holders to sit with them. If true, the season ticket holder numbers have swelled by an additional 5,600 for next season. I am told the £99 season tickets for Under 16’s have been very popular and have been encouraged by sales staff.

When you factor in another 3,500 tickets have been reserved and sold to wealthy corporate customers and an additional 3,000 seats at minimum will be reserved for away Premier League supporters it means nearly half of the 54,000 seats are already reserved in the new stadium.

Season ticket holders visiting the Stratford reservation centre in the past week have reported lack of choice of seats and difficultly of sitting large groups together as band 2 draws to an end. We understand there is a severe shortage  and a limited amount of Band 1 and 1966 seats remaining even if fans wanted to upgrade.

There is  estimated to be another 12,0000 season ticket holders in bands 3 and 4 and if  20% take up the ‘plus two ‘offer that would add another 4,800 to the season ticket hoard for our first season.

It means West Ham appear to be on target  to sell over 36,000 season tickets by the end of band 4 appointments in February next year on top of the 3,000 corporate seats they have already nearly sold out.

In February next year band 5 tickets will be available and any remaining season tickets in bands 1- 4 will be sold to the 20,000 waiting priority list.

West Ham are believed to have imposed a season ticket holder maximum of 40,000 in the Olympic Stadium with the South stand upper and lower reserved for away supporters in league and cup games. This south stand is likely to be the area which will have the limited amount of general sale tickets and be used for West Ham’s contractual obligation to give away 100,000 tickets per year to Newham residents.