Claret and Hugh understands that 30,000 season tickets have already been sold in the Olympic Stadium next season.
And it is only a matter of time until the upper limit of 40,000 season ticket holders is reached when the 20,000 priority list is in invited in the new year.
There is a likelihood of a waiting list for season tickets of between 10,000 and 15,000 when the next season kicks off.
With 3,000 seats at the 54,000-capacity stadium reserved for away supporters and a further 3,200 sold to corporate guests, it should be obvious to the most casual of observers that the east Londoners will easily reach their maximum number of season tickets before the first ball is kicked at the club’s new home.
Around 5 per cent of the seats will be reserved for general sale for home supporters which is a requirement of the Premier League but these are likely to be in high demand and sell out quickly to Academy members.
Although West Ham staff at the Reservation Centre in Stratford would not reveal the exact number of season tickets sold in the new stadium yesterday when asked they explained that 30,000 founder badges had been given out to Hammers fans.
As these pins are only given to those who buy season tickets it is a safe bet to correlate the two figures.
FWIW many of the early corporates, Bondholders and band 1 ticket holders didn’t receive a badge – I didn’t. So you could add a few more.
Well that’s bad news for me and other overseas fans. I can get back to the UK for a couple of games a season at the moment. But theoretically I can kiss goodbye to the chance of ever seeing them play again based on this article.
Do you want my email we’ve got 4 season tickets in my family and we rarely are all able to go so we normally sell the ticket to a friend but if you ever needed or wanted to come I’m sure if u dropped me a email asking in advance i could be try to sort it
That would be great. Let me know the best way to contact you.