Viagogo, which recently upped and left the UK for a new home in Switzerland after a Channel 4 TV expose, has announced a raft of new agreements with Premiership football clubs including European champions, Chelsea, Aston Villa and English league champions Manchester City as well as five
German Bundesliga clubs, two Dutch Eredivisie clubs, one Spanish La Liga club,
and several Italian Serie A clubs which include FC
Bayern Munich, and PSV Eindhoven. The partnership means that the company will now
provide ticketing solutions for some of the world's biggest club according to an August press release. According
to viagogo, allowing fans to resell their tickets to games they cannot attend will
ultimately help fill empty seats and increase game-day revenue through the
sales of food and merchandise. Fans cannot sell football tickets at games - Under
the UK's 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, now extended by the 1999
Football (Offences and Disorder) Act, any fan selling or offering to sell, without authority, a ticket for a
"designated football match" in any public place faces a fine of up to
£5,000.
Stubhub have also inked deals with three clubs to be those clubs' official ticket re-sale partner.
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