Chelsea Sanction: UK government bows to pressure, adjusts rules against for two games

Chelsea fans CAN buy tickets for the FA Cup semi-final and future Champions League games this season.

After two weeks of negotiations between the with the club and the Government, DCMS chiefs announced a series of amendments to the club’s operating licence.

It means that Blues fans will be entitled to buy seats for the club’s upcoming FA Cup and European matches.

They will also be allowed to travel to away matches, with visiting fans able to buy their tickets for the final four Prem games at Stamford Bridge against Arsenal, Wolves, Leicester and Watford.

But the strict condition is that not a single penny of the ticket revenue goes into the hands of Roman Abramovich.

And Chelsea remain banned from selling any more HOME match tickets for the upcoming Prem fixtures, meaning likely attendances of just over 30,000.

Under the new conditions, the Government has ensured the “no additional revenue” is raised for Chelsea by the revised regulations.

Normally, under Prem rules, the home team banks all match ticket revenues.

The league confirmed last night that monies that ‘would normally have gone to Chelsea’, usually £90,000 in income from the maximum 3,000 away fans at Stamford Bridge for each game, will be donated to charity to benefit the victims of the war in Ukraine.

Likewise, money raised by Chelsea ticket sales for the FA Cup semi-final against Crystal Palace, their Champions League last eight clash with Real Madrid and any future ties will go to the FA or Uefa respectively “to remain compliant” with the sanctions against Abramovich.