THE MCG‘S COVIDSAFE EVENT PLAN– The ground will be sectioned into five zones including Ponsford Stand, Members’ Stand, Olympic Stand and two zones in the Great Southern Stand. Numbered 1 through to 5 in the aforementioned order.
– Hand sanitisation stations will be available throughout the ground
– Everyone wishing to attend the MCG is required to pre-book a ticket. There will be no walk-up opportunity on match days.
– Once members and footy fans have secured a ticket, via Ticketek on the on-sale dates, they will be allocated a zone, section, row and seat.
– The first row of seating on Level 1 (closest to the boundary fence) will not be sold as a measure to ensure physical distancing between fans and players.
– All tickets will be delivered digitally via Ticketek meaning ticket holders must create a Ticketek account to access their ticket.
– Therefore, digital tickets will be needed to scan into the MCG and displayed on compatible smart devices.
– Once inside the turnstiles of the MCG, attendees must register their attendance via the displayed QR codes
– Contactless (cashless) payments are required at all of the MCG outlets.
– Bars at the MCG will operate as either takeaway or service facilities, or a combination of both. The one person per two square metre rule will be applied to all food and beverage facilities within the MCG.
FAN WARNING AS EXPENSIVE TICKETS APPEAR ONLINEVictorian footy fans will begin a mad dash to get tickets on Monday morning as excitement builds ahead of the AFL season opener.
MCC members will be able to get tickets from Monday, AFL members and home club members from Tuesday and away club members on Wednesday.
If there are any tickets left over other fans can grab tickets from Wednesday afternoon.
To help with contact tracing efforts, fans must redeem a digital ticket from the relevant agent.
At all interstate games the home club will decide how to allocate their tickets to members, but an allocation for away team members will be made available.
It comes as the AFL warns fans about being ripped off, with websites selling tickets for seats worth hundreds of dollars ahead of the start of the 2021 season.
Resale site The Ticket Merchant is giving fans the option to pay for tickets to all 23 rounds of this year’s season at inflated prices, with Anzac Day tickets also promising pre-game event access selling for up to $495.
Level 2 seating at round one’s Richmond v Carlton priced at $325 per seat has already sold out.
But AFL spokesman Jay Allen told the Sunday Herald Sun no none had access to tickets until Monday, when the first release becomes available to MCC members.
Mr Allen said fans should always purchase their tickets from official sellers, with seats to early rounds available each week.
A representative from Ticket Merchant told the Sunday Herald Sun the seats available on the site came from reserved seating ticket holders who mail out the tickets closer to a match date.
While each club has a policy on members transferring tickets, clubs can revoke memberships if members are sprung trying to profit from their traceable tickets.
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