Following a health and safety assessment, The Staxson Stadium’s capacity has been limited to 1300 and we can now confirm that we have been given an allocation of 195 tickets for our Isuzu FA Trophy Quarter-Final at Sittingbourne, in line with FA rules. We would like to thank Sittingbourne for their communication and support in conjunction with their local Police Constabulary.
This allocation will undoubtedly result in a number of our supporters missing out on a ticket and has of course left the club with a difficult decision on how to ensure our supporters are given a fair chance of following us for this fixture.
In order to ensure all Season Ticket Holders, who would get a priority window under normal circumstances, receive a fair opportunity of getting a ticket, Season Ticket Holders will be entered into a ballot and drawn at random.
We are extremely grateful to all those who follow the Shots up and down the country each week and are aware that some of those may end up missing out through this system. As away tickets for Vanarama National League games are sold by the home side, we can have no record of Shots supporters that have followed us away from home and therefore this would not be possible to include as a priority. However, the Shots Away Travel Group does provide us with a small list of supporters who travel regularly to every away game, and therefore they have been given a small allocation of tickets for their regular Season Ticket Members.
The date of the ballot will be confirmed in due course, once the final details (e.g. ticket prices) for the fixture have been fully arranged.
In the near future, we will be contacting those drawn from the initial ballot to secure their tickets. We advise all Season Ticket Holders to regularly check their email inbox and spam inbox for messages from the Club. Once contacted, supporters will have 48 hours to secure their ticket, which can be done either at the club shop (Mon-Fri, 11am-2pm) via card or cash, or over the phone (01252 320211) via card. Tickets that are not secured will be released for further ballots. Please note that the chosen Season Ticket Holders will only be able to purchase one ticket.
We’d like to thank all supporters for their continued support and patience and recognise that there will be many disappointed fans, we would like to reassure supporters that Club staff have been in deep conversation for several days on how to make this process as fair as possible.
We also need to reiterate that there will be no tickets available to buy on the day and supporters without a ticket should not travel.
