Colchester & Watford

[SouthWalesSaints]

What are current ticket sales looking like? I’ve got tickets through my hospitality season tickets but can’t view the page so hoping someone can enlighten me as need to purchase more on Monday. 

[Dr Who?]

1 hour ago, SouthWalesSaints said:

What are current ticket sales looking like? I’ve got tickets through my hospitality season tickets but can’t view the page so hoping someone can enlighten me as need to purchase more on Monday. 

Normally quite low during the summer holidays or struggle with sales. 

[Football Special]

7 hours ago, SouthWalesSaints said:

What are current ticket sales looking like? I’ve got tickets through my hospitality season tickets but can’t view the page so hoping someone can enlighten me as need to purchase more on Monday. 

Colchester showed as "sold out" on Friday , not sure for Watford but as that one is digital tickets that are not transferable will be interesting to see how low it goes , obviously will sell out easily but will impact people who used to buy for mates etc 

[IFHP]

I’m hopeful that more of our away tickets will be digital and that you won’t be able to transfer them. 

This will stop fans buying away tickets then suddenly are unable to attend just to get the away credit.

By clamping down on this more fans can get away tickets on their own account, might even see the number of away games required at the start of sales drop over time. 
 

Colchester has sold out but I dare say several fans have only got a ticket to get the credit as it was cheap. 
 

incidentally both my Watford ticket and my Stoke home tickets are available in my ticket app.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Draino76]

I've gone for the Colchester hospitality ticket for £55, which includes a seat on the half way line plus a 3-course meal. 

[SouthWalesSaints]

1 hour ago, Draino76 said:

I've gone for the Colchester hospitality ticket for £55, which includes a seat on the half way line plus a 3-course meal. 

Love that. We’ll see some “limbs” in the home end I hope. 

[Football Special]

No chance Colchester will sell out the home end, surprised they didnt give us more to boost the attendance a bit. 

West Ham at home the same day impacts their attendance, Skates still banging on about taking 9000 up to the Hammers , Waterloo will be full of them 

[Football Special]

6 hours ago, IFHP said:

I’m hopeful that more of our away tickets will be digital and that you won’t be able to transfer them. 

This will stop fans buying away tickets then suddenly are unable to attend just to get the away credit.

By clamping down on this more fans can get away tickets on their own account, might even see the number of away games required at the start of sales drop over time. 
 

Colchester has sold out but I dare say several fans have only got a ticket to get the credit as it was cheap. 
 

incidentally both my Watford ticket and my Stoke home tickets are available in my ticket app.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I agree with you for the main reason but would be good if you could have 2 or 3 times a season where you can transfer a ticket short notice if due to circumstances you can't make it, but by transferring you lose the away credit , would help stop seats being left empty and still put off those who just buy to sell on 

[Noodles34]

You know there’s a single way of transferring away tickets. Probably more  applicable for trusted mates and family etc. Saints app. Username and password. Login. 

[Noodles34]

9 hours ago, Draino76 said:

I've gone for the Colchester hospitality ticket for £55, which includes a seat on the half way line plus a 3-course meal. 

Won’t your seat be in the way of the game ?

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

4 hours ago, Football Special said:

No chance Colchester will sell out the home end, surprised they didnt give us more to boost the attendance a bit. 

West Ham at home the same day impacts their attendance, Skates still banging on about taking 9000 up to the Hammers , Waterloo will be full of them 

Cup Final.

[Toussaint]

1 hour ago, Noodles34 said:

Won’t your seat be in the way of the game ?

That’s taking monetising the game a step too far! I blame Infantini!

[The Wyvern]

1 hour ago, Noodles34 said:

Won’t your seat be in the way of the game ?

Got an image in my head now of a Saints fan sat at a table by the centre circle trying to enjoy his three-course meal while the game goes on around him. 

[The Wyvern]

1 hour ago, TheAlehouseBrawlers said:

Cup Final.

Proper small club behaviour isn’t it, getting all giddy at the idea of a cup trip to a big ground. 

[Draino76]

1 hour ago, Noodles34 said:

Won’t your seat be in the way of the game ?

Let me be clear.  Yes, I'll be dining on the centre circle when the game kicks off. 

[SouthWalesSaints]

So no news on Watford then? 

[IFHP]

17 hours ago, SouthWalesSaints said:

So no news on Watford then? 

Other than it’s not sold out yet . Down to 6 alway credits . Seems the digital tickets may have put a few off as I’m certain this would have sold out by now. 

[Saint In Cornwall]

1 hour ago, IFHP said:

Other than it’s not sold out yet . Down to 6 alway credits . Seems the digital tickets may have put a few off as I’m certain this would have sold out by now. 

Sunday lunchtime in a ground with no beer might have had an effect 😉

[Pamplemousse]

On 26/07/2026 at 13:46, Football Special said:

No chance Colchester will sell out the home end, surprised they didnt give us more to boost the attendance a bit. 

West Ham at home the same day impacts their attendance, Skates still banging on about taking 9000 up to the Hammers , Waterloo will be full of them 

Liverpool Street might get a bit tasty

[LGTL]

Watford going quite low, I assume due to the digital tickets. Lincoln will be interesting as we’ll only get 1200 and it’ll be a new ground for most. 

Edited 10 hours ago by LGTL

[Football Special]

1 hour ago, LGTL said:

Watford going quite low, I assume due to the digital tickets. Lincoln will be interesting as we’ll only get 1200 and it’ll be a new ground for most. 

Also possible that Lincoln might be paper tickets if they still operate that way, if so will sell out to very high away numbers , Wrexham coming up as well was paper tickets last season for another small allocation

 

[goodymatt]

 

[EssEffCee]

Paper tickets for Birmingham.

[EssEffCee]

2 hours ago, Football Special said:

Also possible that Lincoln might be paper tickets if they still operate that way, if so will sell out to very high away numbers , Wrexham coming up as well was paper tickets last season for another small allocation

 

Lincoln will sell out to high numbers regardless I reckon. New ground for most and the smallest allocation in the league.

[franniesTache]

56 minutes ago, EssEffCee said:

Lincoln will sell out to high numbers regardless I reckon. New ground for most and the smallest allocation in the league.

Last played there in 96, which weirdly i have absolutely no memory of despite the fact i'd been doing aways for a few years by then.

[Football Special]

54 minutes ago, franniesTache said:

Last played there in 96, which weirdly i have absolutely no memory of despite the fact i'd been doing aways for a few years by then.

League Cup 3rd round REPLAY wasn't it? Good random mid-90s fixture 

[OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint]

2 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

Paper tickets for Birmingham.

Bit disappointed with this digital ticket app which says the tickets aren't transferable. Appreciate you don't want touts scooping up loads of tickets, but is that really a problem for Southampton FC? Every year, I go to about a dozen away games. When we were in the premier league the time before last, as a Saints member not season ticket holder, I could usually get tickets for away games including London games like Watford & Chelsea. Then away tickets got harder to get so some mates who are season tickets holders got away tickets for me.

With this App, tickets can't be transferred among mates (you could pass each other's login details but technically that's not allowed). Appreciate some away games coming up will be paper tickets, but this will probably become rarer as time goes on. There must be a way SFC will allow tickets to be passed among fans. Either they allow tickets to be transferred among friends or they link every ticket with a dedicated phone number to stop people passing around each other's details illegally.