Aston Villa warning as £25 Bologna tickets spark fury

Aston Villa tickets for tonight's game against Bologna have found themselves on ticket resale sites for as little as £25.

The tickets for the Champions League fixture were previously available to season ticket holders at a much higher price with tickets starting at around the £75 mark.

But just hours before kick off, Villa fans could casually log onto the site and snap up a ticket, regardless of their ticket history as a supporter and totally independent of the club's own ticket sales process.

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Matt on X, posted: So this is legit just brought a ticket for tonight for 30£ and seems a lot left with at least 4 together in parts

At 4.30pm today, BirminghamLive logged onto a ticket resale site with a view to buying two tickets for the game, we were giving the cheapest option of £50 a ticket in the Doug Ellis Lower Stand.

The prices of tickets ranged from £50 to £1,000 a ticket, with large quantities seemingly available.

Fans on social media have reacted angrily over the last couple of days due to screengrabs on X that show tickets have been available for as little as £25.

At this stage it's unclear how the tickets ended up on the resale sites and in what quantity.

This has been echoed by the club themselves who today issued an update on social media advising fans to buy only from the club's official channels, but many fans were posting that they had received tickets from the resale sites into their phone digital wallet, at a smaller cost than those sold by the club.

Over the course of the last 24 hours, the club has been actively contacting supporters to see if they want to pay to upgrade to hospitality deals at special rates for those with tickets to the game already.

We reached out to Aston Villa Football Club to determine the validity of the tickets and the club have not released any tickets to third party sites and have warned supporters that if they are caught selling tickets to other supporters, they could face a ban from the club.

Supporters are also warned that they could buy tickets and not actually receive them.

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