AFL Ticketing 2025

[Boots]

Part three of the 'Ticketmaster is incompetent' saga - I logged in and for some reason, there were suddenly GA tickets available again! I wOnDeR WhY!?

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Part three of the 'Ticketmaster is incompetent' saga - I logged in and for some reason, there were suddenly GA tickets available again! I wOnDeR WhY!?

Pathetic way to run a business

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[The Adelaide Connection]

TLDR: Port fans are fuming that they found out three weeks before the event that their allocation was only 500 tickets (Dogs get 4500). Many had booked accommodation and weren't aware of the upgrades and reduced capacity. They allocated their tickets to their Vic members first, meaning next to no-one in SA got tickets.

Reading the article, the renovation will also impact the ground in 2026. Not sure if capacity will be as impacted as this year, but it really is a shambles.


Port Adelaide fans fume at small capacity in Ballarat’s Mars Stadium for match against Western Bulldogs

Port Adelaide footy fans are fuming they are unable to buy tickets for their Round 8 clash against Western Bulldogs – and the same fate awaits Crows supporters later in the year.
Paul Ashenden
@paulashenden
3 min read
April 24, 2025 - 6:03PM

Reduced capacity at an AFL venue in regional Victoria has left Port Adelaide fans fuming and unable to purchase tickets – and the same fate awaits Crows supporters later in the year.

Both South Australian clubs are scheduled to play the Western Bulldogs at Ballarat’s Mars Stadium, despite the venue having a capacity of just 5000 people while it undergoes a redevelopment.
Port fans who had booked accommodation to attend the club’s Round 8 match on election day say they have been “blindsided” and are angry tickets only went on sale less than three weeks before the game.
The Alberton Crowd Facebook group had organised a group of about 60 to travel to the game as its annual “Tour of Duty” road trip but has cancelled because of a lack of tickets. Many in the group have had to cancel accommodation they booked months ago.
Group co-founder Phil Rollas said scheduling games at such a small venue was “incompetent”. Charlie Dixon marks during the 2018 AFL round 19 match between the Western Bulldogs and the Port Adelaide at Mars Stadium. Picture: Adam Trafford/AFL Media/Getty Images The AFL Fans Association has told the AFL it had received “a significant number of concerns from members and supporters” about the lack of available tickets.
Western Bulldogs members were allocated about 4500 tickets for the game and the remaining 500 were allocated to Port members.
Port Adelaide general manager of consumer business and marketing Stephen Shirley said the club had offered its Victorian members first access to tickets and had generated a waitlist for SA-based members
“Any members who wish to join the waitlist are encouraged to contact the club,” Mr Shirley said. The Crows play Western Bulldogs in Ballarat in Round 18. Dates and times for that match are yet to be released.
The Western Bulldogs announced in February an extension of a deal that will see the club host two AFL games a year in Ballarat until at least the end of 2027. A spokesman said they expected Mars Stadium capacity to be affected until the redevelopment was complete before season 2027. TINY BALLARAT STADIUM SOURS A ROAD TRIP TO THE FOOTY

Paul Ashenden
Originally, it was going to be a weekend away with my wife. When the AFL fixture came out before Christmas, we locked in the Port Adelaide vs. Western Bulldogs game at Ballarat as a chance to hit the road.
The game was scheduled for the first weekend in May and it would give us a chance to visit some mates in Horsham on the way.
A couple of months ago, though, something else came up in her schedule but I was still keen. So, I decided to turn it into a boys’ weekend away. A couple of us from Adelaide would drive over, pick up the blokes from Horsham and meet another mate from Geelong at the game in the Golden City. Sweet.
Excitement was building and it was up to me to purchase the tickets. It didn’t cross anyone’s mind that this might pose a problem – a clash between these two teams in regional Victoria was hardly a blockbuster. Travis Boak handballs during a Port v Western Bulldogs game in Ballarat in 2018. Picture: Michael Klein But when I logged on to Ticketmaster one minute after tickets went on sale last week, everything turned sour. The game was sold out.
Turns out that redevelopment work at Ballarat’s Mars Stadium has reduced its capacity from about 11,000 to just over 5000. Soon, other Port Adelaide supporters started commenting on social media that they, too, had been unable to get tickets.
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Many of them had to cancel accommodation they had booked months before. Fortunately, our group was less organised but we’re disappointed, nonetheless.
We’re disappointed that the AFL has scheduled a game at a stadium with such limited capacity, and we’re disappointed about the lack of warning about the reduced capacity.
We understand that the game is a Western Bulldogs home game, that Ballarat is their “home away from home” and the Dogs have a contract to play two AFL games there until at least 2027.
Western Bulldogs vs Port Adelaide at Mars Stadium, Ballarat.. Port Adelaide's Ollie Wines .Pic: Michael Klein And in the wake of this month’s Gather Round, where Lyndoch’s Barossa Park had a capacity of just 10,000, we understand the importance of taking the AFL to the regions. But it seems verging on ridiculous that an AFL game in 2025 is scheduled for a venue that holds just 5000 people.
As a lifelong Port fan, it’s rare for me to have any sympathy for Adelaide Crows fans but I’ll be feeling their pain when they attempt to buy tickets to their round 18 game in Ballarat later in the year.
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Here’s hoping those Crows fans are given more than three weeks between when tickets go on sale and game day, because that’s the time frame we were given for the Port-Bulldogs game.
Oh, and don’t even get me started about the AFL’s floating schedule after round 15 and how hard that makes it for footy fans to schedule their lives – there’s a whole separate column in that one.

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Tickets still available for President's Lunch in Ballarat

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A limited release of tickets for our match at Mars Stadium v Port Adelaide this weekend will be made available at 10am (AEST), Thursday, May 1 via Ticketmaster. Tickets are expected to sell out fast so members and fans are encouraged to get in quick.

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On Sale today

Updated

R16-23 tickets on sale from today


Tickets for the final rounds of the 2025 Toyota AFL Premiership Season will go on sale this week.

By Western Bulldogs Media
18 hrs ago
Tickets for Rounds 16 to 23 of the Western Bulldogs’ 2025 Toyota AFL Premiership Season will go on sale for members and fans this week.

Bulldogs’ members will be able to purchase tickets to games at Marvel Stadium and the MCG on, Tuesday 3 June, from 12pm AEST.

The public on-sale will be on Wednesday 4 June from 12pm AEST.

Bulldogs members in Queensland or New South Wales will receive communication about respective on-sale times at a later day.


Round 18 v Adelaide: Ballarat update


Due to the redevelopment and limited number of seats at Mars Stadium, our Round 18 clash against Adelaide is now taking place at Marvel Stadium. Tickets for this match will be available during the Club Member on-sale window tomorrow, Tuesday 2 June.

Members who hold a Reserved Seat at Mars Stadium will still receive access to a Reserved Seat for this match. Ballarat Members can redeem a $0 ticket in a Reserved Bay located in the Level 1 Wing section.

For more information regarding ticket redemption for this match, Ballarat Members are asked to check your emails or contact the Bulldogs Membership Team via email or via phone on 1300 46 36 47.

Members with a Reserved Seat at Marvel Stadium will retain access to their allocated seat for this match and can scan in as usual. This fixtured match is classified as an additional home game. Ticket on-sale times


Marvel Stadium (Ticketmaster)

• Tuesday 3 June - 12pm AEST – Club members
• Wednesday 4 June - 12pm AEST - General public

MCG (Ticketek)

• Tuesday 3 June - 12pm AEST – Club members
• Wednesday 4 June - 12pm AEST - General public

[BiteNibbleChomp]

What's the process for getting my member ticket (Bronze home and away) to the Melbourne game at the G?
I'm guessing the member card won't work given the G uses ticketek instead of ticketmaster - do I need to redeem anything like I did for the Adelaide one that got moved, or will the club just send me an email at some point?

- BNC

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What's the process for getting my member ticket (Bronze home and away) to the Melbourne game at the G?
I'm guessing the member card won't work given the G uses ticketek instead of ticketmaster - do I need to redeem anything like I did for the Adelaide one that got moved, or will the club just send me an email at some point?

- BNC

You should be able to get a ticket through Ticketek - did you try?

[BiteNibbleChomp]

You should be able to get a ticket through Ticketek - did you try?

I tried ticketek, after putting in the barcode it offered me a bunch of upgrades to the reserved spots on levels 1 and 2 for like $50 (I'm a GA member so expected it would just be a case of redeeming a free ticket like for the Adelaide game).

Then looked in the app and ohhh.... it's there already.

I did the member survey yesterday... if I was doing it today the "how good is the club at communicating stuff to members" question would be getting marked down a couple points - this sort of stuff could very easily go into a "here's what you get and how you find everything" email they could send out at the start of the season.

- BNC

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