Scotland’s European Championships qualifier with the Republic of Ireland on Friday night has been confirmed as a sell-out. The build-up to the Celtic Park fixture has been overshadowed by complaints from the Football Association of Ireland’s chief executive, John Delaney, about an allocation of around 3,000 tickets for the travelling support. Delaney openly lambasted his association’s Scottish counterparts despite the allocation being consistent with competition rules.
Scottish fans had earlier been riled by pricing for the entire qualifying campaign, prompting a low initial take-up for Friday’s match and Irish fans taking the opportunity to purchase home end tickets.
A Scottish FA spokesperson has now confirmed that no tickets remain for the fixture. Around 11,000 briefs offering various levels of restricted view at the 60,000-capacity venue were the last to be sold, and were so by lunchtime on Wednesday.
Roughly 50,000 tickets have been sold for Tuesday night’s friendly against England, also at Celtic Park and also the recipient of negative reaction regarding pricing.
