Website Part-owned By Boehly Offers Chelsea Fa Cup Tickets For £1,705

The FA Cup semi-final listings span each 4 stands, but are not nan only Chelsea lucifer for which Vivid Seats is offering tickets.

It has listings for each six of nan Blues' last Premier League games of nan season, pinch prices betwixt $149 (£110) and $4,372 (£3,231).

And tickets are already disposable for nan FA Cup final, priced astatine $452 (£334) and $4,912 (£3,630).

In practice, resale sites offering tickets astatine inflated values contributes to summons touting and leaves genuine fans astatine consequence of missing retired altogether connected tickets to immoderate events.

CST contacted nan Premier League past period to definitive concerns astir Boehly's engagement pinch Vivid Seats, asking nan convention to see whether nan 52-year-old is successful breach of title rules.

In a missive of response, Premier League main executive Richard Masters wrote: "Whilst we understand nan concerns you person raised, based connected nan accusation presently disposable to america we are satisfied that Mr Boehly's engagement pinch Vivid Seats does not implicate a breach of Premier League rules and, arsenic a result, we do not intend to return disciplinary action astatine this stage."

But nan CST was not satisfied pinch nan response.

"The Premier League has efficaciously acknowledged that its existent rules do not reside ownership links to secondary ticketing platforms, meaning this business sits wrong a spread successful nan system," it said successful an unfastened missive to nan nine pursuing Masters' explanation.

"While location whitethorn beryllium nary method breach, that does not make nan business acceptable."

Last season, Chelsea ejected 1,393 group from Stamford Bridge for possession of touted tickets, while 2,740 accounts linked to touts were cancelled.

More than 350,000 attempted summons purchases were blocked by their ticketing system.

If personification trying to participate Stamford Bridge were recovered to beryllium successful possession of a summons purchased astatine inflated worth from Vivid Seats, they would successful mentation beryllium refused entry, contempt nan summons being purchased from a tract successful which nan club's ain president has a financial interest.

"Chelsea person invested a batch successful summons touting and we've worked intimately pinch them connected it," Ross added. "They person been cancelling touts' memberships and adjacent play to them, they're taking it seriously.

"But it undermines each that erstwhile group are still touting their tickets done a work linked to nan chairman."