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Football fans lose £2.5m in tickets con
Nottingham Post
|August 08, 2025
FOOTBALL fans are being urged to watch out for ticket scams when buying match tickets for the upcoming Premier League season, as a bank estimates that £2.5 million has been lost in recent years.
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Victims lost an average of £218 each last season, according to Lloyds.
More than 2,400 cases of football ticket fraud were reported by Lloyds customers over the past two seasons, with total losses topping £500,000.
The bank estimates that nationally there are likely to have been at least 12,000 victims since the start of the 2023/24 season, with more than £2.5 million stolen by fraudsters.
This story is from the August 08, 2025 edition of Nottingham Post.
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