According to the reports, the president of Chelsea, Todd Boehly, is co -owner of an 'unauthorized' website that participates in the resale of the premier league tickets for foreign tourists.
Boehly, 51, who is also co -owner of The Blues, is an investor and vivid seat director, an online market based in the United States.
Users and fans with headquarters in the United Kingdom cannot buy or sell tickets on the platform, with a criminal offense to resell tickets for football matches after Hillsborough disaster in 1989.
However, according to a report in The telegraphVivid Seats has allowed foreign users to sell tickets to Chelsea games, among others, for tens of thousands of pounds, and it is said that the platform takes a 10 percent commission and a considerable service rate of the price of the price of The original entries.
The promotion of tickets has proven to be an important problem in recent times, with Chelsea regularly denouncing the practice and seeing it as an important problem.
In fact, the club has promised sanctions for anyone involved in the promotion of tickets, including the elimination of seasonal tickets or preventing those who make it attending games, while stressed that criminal sanctions could even continue.
According to the reports, the president and co -owner of Chelsea, Todd Boehly, is also co -owner of an 'unauthorized' website that participates in the resale of the premier league tickets for foreign tourists
Vivid seats allow foreign users to resell tickets for several Premier League games
The promotion of tickets has proven to be an important problem in Chelsea and the club has promised to stop it
Vivid Seats appears on the Premier League list as an 'unauthorized tickets website', which means that, according to the report, Boehly could be benefiting from a very controversial practice in which his club has been strongly.
Fans who buy unauthorized websites tickets face the risk of being deceived, while they can also be denied entry to a game despite spending great sums.
On its website, Vivid Seats states that 'the event must take place in the United States' so that tickets are sold on the platform, while vendors have to live in the United States.
However, tickets are listed for the rest of the Premier League season in vivid seats, including the clash of the last day of the Liverpool against Crystal Palace, which could see the Reds raise the title, where prices range between £ 1,765 and £ 19,369.
A furious fanatic of Chelsea told The Telegraph: 'The fact that our owner can personally benefit at the expense of the faithful supporters is hypocritical in the best case and frankly dishonest in the worst.
'Touting is a big problem in Chelsea at this time and is getting worse. There are less and less tickets available for general admission supporters, coinciding per party.
Despite the problems surrounding the vivid seats and the crime of the promotion of tickets in the United Kingdom, there are several other websites abroad that participate in similar practices.
Vivid seats describe themselves as: 'A legitimate and reliable ticket market for EPL tickets. Vivid Seats is accredited by Better Business Bureau (BBB) with a A+rating, has more than one million 5 -star criticisms in ShopperPPEREDRED, a 4.1 star rating in Tustpilot and a 4.7 star rating in the Apple Store application. We have a buyer guarantee designed to provide full tranquility, safety and security for our valuable customers. ''
Tickets for Liverpool vs Crystal Palace in May can be purchased for between £ 1,765- £ 19,480
Vivid Seats appears in the Premier League as an 'unauthorized tickets' website'
When Telegraph asked him to comment, they added: 'As a global business, we are always respectful and aware of local regulatory policies and procedures that are in force in any market to ensure that we meet.
'As such, our policy restricts the sale of EPL tickets from the sellers of the United Kingdom. We can confirm that we have no seller from the United Kingdom that lists the EPL inventory in our market. In addition, Vivid Seats has not directly marketed or announced the Premier League tickets for the United Kingdom customers.
'Vivid seats and Chelsea have a long -standing and respectful association, which was publicly announced in 2023, where we associated with Chelsea in their first pre -season tournament of the Premier League in the United States.
'With respect to prices, Vivid Seats does not establish the base price for tickets sold in its market or receive any income of that base price; Only the seller establishes and receives the price of the base ticket.