Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly is reportedly a co-owner of an unauthorised website involved in reselling Premier League match tickets to overseas tourists.
Boehly, 51, who is also a co-owner of the Chelsea team, is an investor and director of Vivid Seats. An online marketplace based in the United States.
Users and fans in the UK are unable to buy or sell tickets through the platform, as the resale of football match tickets is a criminal offence following the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.
However, according to แทงบอล UFABET ราคาดีที่สุด ไม่มีขั้นต่ำ, Vivid Seats allowed overseas users to sell tickets for Chelsea and other games for tens of thousands of pounds. With the platform charging a 10 per cent commission and a hefty service fee on top of the original ticket price.
The issue of ghost ticket sales has become a major problem in recent times, with Chelsea regularly condemning the practice and seeing it as a serious issue that needs to be tackled.
In fact, the club has promised to punish those involved in ticket resale. Including withholding season tickets or banning those who do so from attending matches. At the same time, it has stressed that criminal sanctions could follow.
Vivid Seats has been blacklisted by the Premier League as an ‘unauthorised ticket website’, meaning Boehly could reportedly profit from practices that contradict what his club are actively fighting against.
Fans who buy tickets from unauthorised sites risk being scammed. And they could also be denied entry to matches despite having paid a large sum.
The Vivid Seats website states that “the event must take place in the United States” for tickets to be listed on the platform, while the seller must also be based in the US. However,
tickets for the remainder of the Premier League season have been listed on Vivid Seats, including for Liverpool’s final game against Crystal Palace, where fans could see the Reds lift the trophy, with tickets priced between £1,765 and £19,369.