Tickets for Saturday’s Champions League final between Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain are appearing on resale platforms for staggering sums, with some listed at £195,000 per ticket.
A pair of tickets on Live Football Tickets has been priced at £390,000 in total, with each ticket comprising a £150,000 flat fee plus an additional £45,000 in service fee and tax.
Arsenal face PSG at the Puskas Arena in Budapest this weekend, with the Gunners chasing their first ever Champions League title in the club’s history.
The north London side received an official allocation of just over 16,000 tickets, but enormous demand from supporters hoping to witness history has driven resale prices to extreme levels.
Even the cheapest available ticket on Live Football Tickets was listed at over £2,000, representing a hike of more than 1,000 per cent on the category three ticket price from the official allocation.
Arsenal have been in remarkable form throughout this season’s Champions League campaign, winning all eight of their group stage matches without a single defeat.
The Gunners progressed through the knockout rounds with aggregate victories over Bayer Leverkusen, Sporting CP and Atletico Madrid, completing the run without suffering a defeat across any individual leg.
PSG arrive at the final having lost two of their 16 matches on the road to Budapest, falling to 2-1 defeats against both Sporting CP and Bayern Munich during the group phase.
Saturday’s match will mark Arsenal’s first European final since the 2019 Europa League final, when they were beaten 4-1 by Chelsea, and their first Champions League final since 2006.
That 2006 final ended in a 2-1 defeat to Barcelona at the Stade de France in Paris, making this weekend’s showpiece a significant moment in the club’s modern history.
Arsenal’s ticketing statement, issued when the allocation was announced, warned supporters that “there will be some restricted view seating within the allocation that may have partial views blocked by safety rails, pillars, or crowd barriers.”
The combination of historical significance and limited ticket supply has created conditions where resale prices at this level, while described as rare, have nonetheless emerged ahead of the Budapest showdown.