Overview

• BBC journalists purchased tickets via secondary channels for multiple weekend fixtures, including Arsenal and Manchester City vs Manchester United, and successfully entered stadiums.
• Four prominent resale operations registered in Spain, Dubai, Germany and Estonia are believed to use club memberships and automated software to harvest tickets.
• Roughly 33,000 tickets were listed across four matches last weekend, including more than 18,000 for Arsenal vs Nottingham Forest, according to the probe.
• Listings commonly cost two to four times face value, with prices ranging from £55 to nearly £15,000, and some tickets were delivered via WhatsApp.
• Arsenal detailed countermeasures including digital ticketing, ballot protections, almost 74,000 account cancellations, over 30,000 ballot removals and more than 7,000 membership bans, while the Premier League maintains an unauthorised-seller list of 50+ sites and experts warn many listings may be bogus.