Watford

I don't think it's an unreasonable thing to require as long as it's not one offence and done because obviously unexpected things can happen where letting the club know won't be possible. It would also need an easy to use ST portal where people could in one click say they weren't going to be able to attend

After all if you can't attend but the club's have people who would like to attend then you are depriving someone else. It would also perhaps be a good idea if the seat wasn't resold at full price, either have it given away to schools, youth club's or the likes or sold at a discount to people living with a radius of the ground

 

In this day and age, you can't really due to the laws surrounding football. Just look at all the data carabao needed for the ticket giveaway

 

But you could release your ticket back to the Club. However, the Club shouldn't be able to force season ticket holders to do so. Far better to offer an incentive to do so, e.g. if the Club successfully resells your ticket, you get a partial refund.

 

You can release your ticket. Watford are clearly doing this though as people aren't bothering to do so.

I would imagine offering incentives to do so is logistically a bit of a problem. Especially when resale tickets are likely to be cheaper to buy anyway

 

That sounds like a pretty fair system.

 

What about Wembley and other prestigious venues used for final games, where there are often empty seats during matches.

Would Wembley ban those that stay in the corporate hospitality zone when the match is on. As it is an FA enterprise, when there are Internationals and the FA Cup Final, then they could do this! Will they, will they heckers like!

 

Make confirmation terms of the lease. If no confirmation then the seats/box can be resold and the ‘profit’ split between the FA and the lease holder. Not that difficult if you think outside of the box (but we are talking about the FA here).