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LATICS FANS GIVEN 5,000 MORE TICKETS FOR PLAY-OFF FINAL
Manchester Evening News
|May 31, 2025
SOME 10,000 more tickets will be released for Oldham's first game at Wembley Stadium in over 30 years.
Fans were left devastated in recent weeks after tickets for the momentous occasion were capped at 17,500 per club due to Wembley Park Station being closed for engineering works. The FA and Transport for London feared the closure would make crowd control more difficult.
But now the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, have confirmed that capacity for tomorrow's National League play-off final between Oldham Athletic FC and Southend United has increased from 40,000 to almost 50,000.
Mr Burnham said: "Oldham Athletic and Southend United are two proud clubs with a long history in the Football League.
This story is from the May 31, 2025 edition of Manchester Evening News.
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