Celtic struggling to sell tickets to their fans so have now given additional Newcastle United fans allocation | OneFootball

With Celtic struggling to sell tickets to their own fans, the Glasgow club have now approached Newcastle United and offered NUFC fans an extra allocation.

Newcastle United fans having very quickly snapped up the original 7,200 ticket allocation.

Those tickets all sold out almost six weeks ago.

Whilst the Newcastle United allocation sold out so quickly, Celtic struggling to sell due to their fans asked to pay £25 for the match.

Pretty standard pricing for friendlies these days, with Newcastle United charging £25 for adults when Atletico Madrid visit St James’ Park in August, that game already a 52,000 sell out.

However, Celtic fans thinking the £25 ticket price is far too much, in part, because their season ticket holders used to get at least one free friendly match as part of their season ticket.

It appears things haven’t improved much on the sales front up in Glasgow, so with 23 days to go until the friendly, Celtic getting in touch with Newcastle United to try and help fill Celtic Park, by giving United fans this bonus allocation.

Newcastle United haven’t announced how many extra tickets. United could easily sell twice as many, as away games are impossible to get tickets for these days, unless you are a season ticket holder. Even for friendlies!

It would be great to see enough tickets supplied by Celtic so that at last some Newcastle United members might get the very rare chance of being able to get to an away game, albeit a friendly.

Newcastle United official announcement – 26 June 2025:

Tickets for Newcastle United’s pre-season trip to Scottish Premiership champions Celtic FC are on sale after being offered an additional capacity.

Eddie Howe’s side will travel to Scotland to face Brendan Rodger’s Bhoys at Celtic Park on Saturday, 19th July (kick-off 3pm BST), competing for the first ever adidas Trophy, and tickets initially went on sale to season ticket holders with 35 and above away points on Tuesday, 6th May before selling out on Friday, 16th May.

However, after being offered an additional capacity, tickets will go on sale to season ticket holders with three or four away points who do not already have a ticket.

Points will be reduced daily at 2pm (BST), excluding weekends – subject to availability.

Adult – £25

Senior (65+) – £17

13–16 Year-Old – £17

Under 13 – £12

Restricted View – £3 reduction in the above prices.

Tickets are currently being fulfilled and all tickets are aiming to be posted to supporters on the week commencing Monday, 7th July.

Additional Information

Safeguarding

Anyone under the age of 13 must be accompanied by an adult aged over 18 at Celtic Park.

Due to the size of the allocation, the club will be offering sale to seat instead of the usual travel groups for this fixture. If you are in a different points threshold to a junior and wish to sit together, please contact the Box Office and arrangements can be made to ensure juniors are not sat separately.

Tickets will be in paper format.

Celtic Park is a cashless stadium.

No visitor tickets will be available on the day at Celtic Park, all tickets should be purchased in advance from Newcastle United.

Ticket spot checks

Please note all tickets are for the sole use of the supporter making the purchase under their Newcastle United supporter number and are strictly non-transferable.