barcelona football tickets - help please

Firstly, I guess you mean 2006?

I've read somewhere that you can infact purchase tickets in Barcelona throught the cash machines.

Now whether there is normally tickets available for every game and whether you need to have a spanish account to do this I don't know, but it might be worth investigating.

Sorry I couldn't help further, and if you do find a good way please post back as I would be interested in doing this at some stage.

I did email the club about 5 months ago asking how I could buy tickets but got no reply.

Good luck.

I went last year with 5 friends and actually brought the tickets from the stadium ticket office the day before the game - no problems. They were playing Real Mallorca and I would guess that if Deportivo aren't at the top, you'd have a good chance of getting tickets then. Don't use the touts outside the ticket office unless you have to - they told us there were no tickets left, but there were plenty. Remember the date and time of the game aren't finalised until about two - three weeks before.

fatboyonadiet wrote:

Don't buy them from anyone but the club as they all add their own % in, buying direct is the cheapest, as suggested wait until 14 days before when tickets are released to the general public and you can buy them online at their website, buy calling them up or even getting them on the day, European clubs tend to release tickets every few days to beat touts so you can pretty much always get a ticket. You will love it.

It depends on the attractiveness of the game surely?
I did a Spanish Cup game against Betis and paid peanuts to get in through one of the old fellas outside, cheaper than buying a fresh ticket from the office. (They often don't have tickets, but they just get you past the perimeter onto the concourse and slip their mates on the turnstile a few Euro's)

Also, for bigger games like Madrid, you'd never get a ticket if you wait until 14 days before and aren't a member.
You'd be wise to go through an Agency if you want guaranteed admission. For instance, Barca v Madrid on April 2nd 2006 is already sold out on lastminute.com and they probably won't get any more. You can imagine that there'd be significant pre-sales to european agencies so less tickets to go to the general public nearer the time. This suits the club who want to get the pre-paid money in as soon as possible to please the bank manager.