Tickets for this year’s Europa League final between Liverpool and Sevilla "are selling at more than five times the amount of last year’s," according to Mark Critchley of the London INDEPENDENT.
The average ticket price for this year’s match-up is £550 ($795) on Ticketbis.net, 158% more than the average over the previous four years (£213).
By contrast, tickets for last year’s final, between Sevilla and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in Warsaw, were sold for an average of just £119.
The most expensive ticket sold for this year’s final on Ticketbis "was purchased by a Russian supporter" for £2,355 ($3,400), which represents a sizeable mark-up from the face value. One VIP ticket still available on the website is listed at a price of £30,115 ($43,500). A Ticketbis spokesperson said, "Despite English teams not doing so well as the Spanish clubs in Europe of late, they still generate a larger demand for tickets. If we consider the last five Europa League finals, you’ll see that the most expensive prices are found for the matches that involve two Premier League teams, Chelsea and Liverpool." Viagogo, another online ticket re-sale platform, "decided to block users" from the U.K. from purchasing tickets for the match (INDEPENDENT, 5/17).
