Tickets for England’s Euro 2020 final with Italy are being sold online by touts for up to £54,000
TICKETS for England's historic Euro 2020 final with Italy are being sold online by touts for up to £54,000.
Fans desperate to attend Sunday's sold-out Wembley clash face being fleeced by tickets flogged on secondary ticketing websites.
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UEFA regulations ban the resale of match tickets above face value - with European football's governing body urging fans not to be "duped by touts".
But huge demand for England's first final in 55 years, and Wembley's capacity being slashed from 90,000 to 60,000 due to Covid regulations, has seen prices soar to five figures.
Millions across the country went wild last night as the country celebrated England's nail-biting 2-1 win over Denmark.
Fans desperate to cheer on Gareth Southgate's heroes at Wembley now face being fleeced by sellers cashing in on the team's Euro success.
TOUTS CASH IN
Two Category 1 tickets on reselling site Ticombo costs £40,000 - with a £10,000 booking fee pushing the total price up to an eye-watering £50,000.
The tickets are advertised as a pair, with the cheapest single seat for the final advertised on the site for £3,400.
Tickets on another site, Live Football Tickets, are being advertising for as much as £15,600 - but with a £4,680 charge per ticket for additional service fees.
The tickets in Wembley's Bobby Moore Hospitality section are sold as a pair, with the overall cost a mind-boggling £40,560.
A single ticket is on sale for £3,749, plus a booking fee of £1,125.
On Seatsnet, tickets are being offered from £3,175 up to £8,000.
In comparison, UEFA's official ticket prices start at £81 (€95) for a "Fans First" ticket, rising to £808 (€945) for a top-tier ticket.
Sun Online has contacted UEFA, Seatsnet, Ticombo and Live Football Tickets for comment.
England fans stormed bars and pubs last night as captain Harry Kane's extra-time goal fired England into Sunday's final.
Prince William and Boris Johnson joined 60,000 fans inside Wembley to roar on the Three Lions.
England recovered from going a goal down after Mikkel Damsgaard’s free-kick put Denmark in front in the first half.
Raheem Sterling forced the own-goal equaliser from Simon Kjaer and won the penalty for the winner in another brilliant, daring display.
THREE LIONS ROAR
And Kane fired home the rebound after Danish keeper Kasper Schmeichel saved his penalty to send the nation into delirium.
In the final England now face Italy who beat Spain in a thrilling semi-final on Tuesday night.
A victory for England would secure the national team's first tournament win since the 1966 World Cup final victory.
The match will be The Three Lions' biggest fixture at Wembley since the Euro 96 semi-finals - with fans desperate to snap up tickets.
A UEFA spokesman told Sun Online: "All tickets for UEFA EURO 2020 are issued by UEFA and are subject to strict terms and conditions which prevent their unauthorised resale and transfer.
"UEFA encourages fans not to be duped by touts who demand exorbitant prices despite often not being in possession of the tickets they claim to have for sale.
"Any tickets which are offered for sale on secondary ticketing platforms, social media, marketplaces etc. are advertised in breach of the ticket terms and conditions that all ticket buyers agree to before the purchase.
"Our organisation has actively enforced its ticket terms and conditions, including by monitoring the internet for unauthorised offers.
"UEFA will not hesitate to take action (including cancelling tickets) where such unauthorised offers are identified and take legal proceedings against third parties involved in the unauthorised resale of tickets, as we have done in the past."
Ticombo's CEO Atle Barlaup told Sun Online: "We are a fan-to-fan platform. All details of buyer and sellers is shared upon purchase.
"We have a flagging option for listings and will remove listings that are priced way to high like the one you mentioned. We will look into this.
"Regarding the resale restriction from Uefa. This has been abandoned by Uefa for this tournament.
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"All tickets can be transferred to others in the app and new details can be added.
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"There has been no possibility for return of tickets even due to Covid related travel restrictions.
"Its obvious under this situation that any resale restrictions do not stand validity test and is void should they have been tried enforced, which they have not."
