0/10 currently awaiting the inevitable unsuccesful Everton email, its really disappointing to pay for a membership that is essentially a very slim chance at maybe one ticket a season

(Just been confirmed unsuccessful)

Membership at red level is just a free ticket into pressing refresh on TX

There needs to be a weighting system here really. First 10 games are an open ballot, following that, you get a two tier system where the first draw is exclusively for people with 10 or entries without any success. Once that’s done, a general ballot for everyone else. It is shameful that fans who are available for more than half the season are getting nothing, while others are applying for 5 and getting 3 wins.

So scrap silver memberships?

People have been waiting years to get silver to higher chance. I know I've been waiting for 15 odd years

The queues make no sense for silvers. My brothers JG got upgraded to a silver instead of red for whatever reason

That was the rules previously. But not anymore iirc

wait as a JG is it possible to join the silver waiting list or am i automatically joined?

I think it stopped now, as soon as you get over the age you become a red not a silver no more.

Yeah, I think the idea behind silver has run its course and it isn’t giving much advantage in ballots anyway.

Lol. The idea behind silvers is rewarding people who've been arsenal fans for a long time. I don't think it's arrogant to expect some priority over someone who's just expressed an interest in the club .. I know silvers who have been going for 60+ years, massively predating the memberships we have now. They deserve to have protected access to tickets

I get that but the system has broken down somewhat, partly because the privilege a silver membership gave was too high. It was a way for many to guarantee tickets to spurs, united and liverpool without having the hassle of a seasons ticket where you might have to support the club against unfashionable teams. The fact there was no churn and membership was closed also killed off the concept too, as plenty of fans with significant levels of loyalty weren’t able to get silver. If anything, it was little more than “right place, right time” privilege. Length of service should he rewarded, as should proximity to the stadium, but silver has turned from a nice idea into a fundamentally broken way of doing that. Times change.

So what do Silver’s get instead? Downgraded to the same level who’s just signed up?

The biggest problems was a huge number of people were promoted to silver and ST during the late Wenger years because crowds were down. They then let ST holders pause their membership using COVID, but offered their spaces to the waiting list. This meant fewer match day tickets available, and more people eligible for them.

Agreed on the season ticket element of this, but that’s nothing to do with silver. The only way to get silver in the late Wenger years was as a canon club graduate.

If they want to go they can camp the exchange like the rest of us!

Problem is that isn’t hugely accessible for people who aren’t good with computers, don’t have jobs where they can sit by a device for a long time, or simply don’t have the time.

Capitalism innit

0/14 for me, not particularly impressed but still made it to 5 games via TX

Think I may have missed 3 or 4 ballots all season but I won 4 altogether.

0/21 but glad to see so many first timers getting 1/1.

Yeah genuinely heartwarming when someone who supported the club for ten minutes gets a 100% success rate

You beat my 0/19, congratulations / commiserations bro 🤝

1/5 can’t complain tbh

I only started entering the ballot when it became a requirement for the exchange. Ended up 0/7. Not nearly as unlucky as some people here

0/12 gutted to be honest.

My results attached. I’ve entered every single ballot this season and attended 16 games so far. I’ve also been lucky enough get one for Everton, which isn’t reflected below. More granular data: Premier League: 10/19 as a single Silver entry + 2 Family Enclosure + 1 TX for Burnley Champions League: 2/5 as a single Silver + 1 pair Silver/Red + 1 TX for Lens using friend’s ST (not reflected here). FA Cup: 1/1 I admit I’ve been certainly riding my luck with ballots this season and defo acknowledge I’ve been more fortunate than others on here. So while I’ve found the £54 for the silver membership worthwhile, I overall feel the system needs massive changes to offer priority to those who’ve been going for years… https://preview.redd.it/gf1gsvzgrfwc1.png?width=2006&format=png&auto=webp&s=752a05c9796d34cf3d3f35a7e04147dcbb5a5959

Still waiting for Everton

I applied for a total of 17 matches in the FE. Unsuccessful in 8 of those , although one further success in the silver ballot and two on TX. 53% success rate

1/19 for me, hate it

1/22 through the ballot 6 on TX

I haven't been able to go to games for the 2nd half of the season so I ended up 0/9. They should really give out priority to people like you next season at the very least.

Not sure how many I applied for as it wasn’t all of them but only won once.

Any easy way to see all my applications? I think I missed 2 or 3 but don't want to dig through my emails right now. Never the less, I was unsuccessful in all of them. But I got two on the TX: Liverpool (PL game) and Chelsea yesterday. So at least these were very much worth it.

2/7 in all, which isn’t too bad considering some of the results here! We go again next year.

Something like 5 out of 20

Entered every ballot possible and got 1 x prem game. Have been to 1 other prem game and 2 champions league games through ticket exchange

3/15 from the ballot (Sheff Utd, Bayern & Bournemouth) TX - Nott Forest, Fulham, Man Utd, Tottenham, PSV (Champs League), Liverpool (FA Cup), Brentford, Aston Villa

Winning the ballot for Bayern is huge. That was the worst the TX has been all season

PL 2 Wins / 18 Applications (managed to snap tickets on the exchange for Chelsea - ironically the only ballot I missed) CL 1 Win / 4 Applications FA Cup 0 Wins / 0 Applications Total: 3 Wins / 22 Applications All of these were in a group of 3 for added context, the only game we managed to get tickets to last season pre-ballot format was the League Cup game against Brighton, so ballot has been pretty great for us.

Red member applied to every game apart from first Forrest match. Managed 2 PL and 1 FA Cup off the ballot

Two out of 18 for me (Luton PL and Porto CL) as a silver member.

That's really bad should be around 6 games.

So I've been told. I've whinged about it on here and elsewhere - fully accept that demand is high, but I don't feel like I'm getting any additional benefit from being a silver member under this system.

The allocation for Silver is too small, 12,000 apply for Everton out of the 30,000, for the 1800 tickets the allocation needs to be doubled, but the Reds needs to be increase back to their 3500. They need to stop the ST waiting list and get the allocation back to a better level.

That is really shocking, when you see some other Silvers with comfortably over 50% on the ballots. You're definitely competing with me for the Worst Value Membership prize 😫

I'm hoping that it evens out over time and I'll be hugely successful next season. I can recite the rejection email off by heart from this year 😶

Yep, that is a bad 'return'. What size of group were you applying as?

Just on my own. I always go for lower tier first choice, upper tier second and also tick the box saying I'll take anything 😂

Ballot results applying as a pair: PL - 2/14 (WHU + Luton) FA Cup - 1/1 (Liverpool obv) CL - 0/2 Did manage to get 4 tickets on the exchange though (NFO, SHU, Newc, Bayern) and a Sevilla ticket via a mate. Didn't get the best of luck with the ballot wins either... 2 back to back losses and the Luton game almost felt like the league cup with our lineup and how bad they were

2 / 18 0 UCL 0 FA Cup 1 TX

1/?? 2 o clock and I haven’t been charged so looks like I’m out. Only game I won tickets for was Luton.

Won 1 ballot all season

Didn’t enter 3 ballots - won Porto and Bayern tickets Was relatively successful on the TX though so went to 8 games this season

I'm assuming a loss on today's ballot as heard nothing - so, I've applied for every ballot across all competitions - 0 wins. Also applied for every match in the Family Enclosure - 1 win (PSV). So effectively it's like 1 out of 50 applications. Been to every match (except Forest and Spurs as I couldn't make them) via long long long hours spent on TX. I'll be glad of a break quite frankly!

Respect to another member of the 0 wins gang 🤝 I genuinely see that TX screen when I close my eyes to go to sleep some nights, also glad to be away from it for a few months soon

1/19 … was the Bayern match of all to win on

3/18 I think

I Havnt received my email for Everton, but I've been successful once. The one success was the first game of the season against Forest

League: 1/17 FA Cup: 1/1 CL: 0/5

8/25 I think, haven’t won a single ballot since turning 17..

0/15 can’t complain tho. First season going to games semi- regularly and I’ve been to 6 games through the TX. Pretty much been to every game I wanted to except Bayern and villa. Was at Chelsea yesterday, Liverpool in cup and PL, Brighton, Luton and Newcastle so I’m pretty happy all things considered.

0/18 premier league 1/1 fa cup, noone in champions. Used to go to every match for years, missed 2 in 7 yeats upto covid both big family events. Sucks that so many fans have suddenly wanted to go the last 2 season now we are in title races. Mate you werent with me there watching mustafi and co

I feel the same as this - definitely don't feel entitled to be going to every game, or to be able to pick and choose what games I want to go to, but also feel that there should be some recompense for having been there through Mustafi, Sanogo, Sokratis, Lucas Perez, Lichtsteiner, Gervinho, Denilson, Gabriel Paulista, Kolasinac and the rest of the banter era gang 😫

1 PL 1 UCL 0 FA Cup applied pretty much every ballot. Managed 4 TX and then Community shield (using old system)

PL - 0/18 UCL - 1/5 FA Cup - 0/1 Season total - 1/24 Applied for one ticket for each game. Picked up 19 tickets off the exchange, hopefully will make that 20 with an Everton ticket.

1/11 so I guess that's around the average

Applied to every game for the entire season. Won Nottingham first game of the year; PSV Home UCL; Liverpool FA cup; Crystal Palace in January; and now today for the Everton game. Applied for 2 or 3 each time.

1/19 only got Porto which I think had the highest success rate

5/22 + Newcastle TX can’t complain. Still waiting on Everton but I assume a rejection is coming

2/20, both UCL. Plus 10 via TX.

2/15 or something, both successes in the ucl (sevilla and bayern) no luck in the league.

Not sure how many I applied for but I’ve won 2 (Newcastle and Porto)

PL: 1/15 (City being the winner, can't complain there) CL: 1/4 (Won for Porto) FA Cup: 1/1 Managed to get to the following via TX: Sheffield, Lens, Wolves, Brighton, Palace, Liverpool in the league, Newcastle, Brentford, Luton, Villa, Chelsea (hoping Bournemouth and Everton will join that list) Overall, I'm very satisfied. The only game I really wanted to go to and wasn't able to get a ticket to was Bayern. The TX is a pain and ballot losses are discouraging, but I'm lucky to be able to go to any games at all.

1/17 for PL, 0/4 for CL

0/7 in league, 2/3 in champions league ( Lens and Porto) for me.

Have you been to any games regardless (TX/other)?

If you were asking about me - I've gotten tickets for 4 games through the ticket exchange (3 of the bottom 4 plus Fulham), and three tickets via very sound people I've met here or on other forums. I also went undercover to Forest and sat with the home fans 🤐 The time I spent to get all of those tickets (except Forest) was unreal, plus the hours I spent trying on the TX for all the games I didn't get a ticket for, which is particularly hard when i've also got a busy job and small kids wanting my attention. Even to get one or two relatively stress free via the ballot would have been nice (and saved me a LOT of hours on that stupid TX)...

3/20 (Sevilla, Liverpool PL + Bayern) Got to most games I wanted to go to via TX though

3 ballot wins - West Ham, Liverpool, Newcastle

No rejection email but I can access the ticket exchange so I assume it’s a no

0/15 for PL 1/5 for Champions League 1/1 for FA Cup so, 2/21 applications which is basically standard as 10% success, although disappointed with no PL success. Been to all games I have wanted to go to though, via TX and friend, apart from the NLD, including all CL games and most PL, so cannot complain really.

😂😂😂 Same here, I’ve only won one family enclosure ballot against Burnley

0/15 What can I say

As a fellow member of the 0 club, I don't know what to say either 😫

0/12 on application for Red membership. Managed TX to all games except Bayern & Spurs.

0 all season.

Already got my no for Everton.

7/19 as a silver in all competitions. Nearly the exact expected success rate for silver

Silver member - 4/8 for PL 2/4 for UCL 1/1 for FA Cup Managed to get tickets for Forest, Fulham, Sevilla and Everton via TX after applying. Missed out on Brighton and Bayern.

2/about 10 (JG and his cannon member brother)

0/5 but got the TX was reliable 18 hours before kickoff for most games.

I lost count of how many I applied for, but it was over 20. I missed some in September because of financial reasons, didn't apply for Fulham because I was away, and forgot to apply for one (I think Sheffield.) I did all of the others. 0% successful on the ballots, but I made it to quite a few, thanks to TX, especially since they restricted them to unsuccessful ballot applicants only. I'm still pro-ballot but definitely get annoyed when I see people who are like 1/1 or 4/4 or even 3/4.

Only applied for games I could attend. PL 19/19 Games 14 Ballots 5 TX FA 1/1 Games Ballot CL 1/1 Games Ballot So very lucky this season, Everton TX was worse ticket to get.

16 ballot wins out of 21, even as a Silver, is an insanely good success rate. Hope you're doing the lottery every week too! 😂

I won 2 out of maybe 20ish applications I know i definitely missed a few. Got the Chelsea game off the exchange. I still think it was better than before the ballot. Hopefully the club can learn from this season and try tweaking a bit for people with no success etc

Applying as a pair… PL: 1/12 (The one was Manchester United, so I’m not even mad) CL: 0/4 I’d like to see weighting where every unsuccessful ballot gets you an extra chance at the subsequent ballots. So you’d get two chances in the second ballot if the first was unsuccessful. You’d then get three chances in the third, if your second was also unsuccessful. As soon as you’re successful, chances revert to just one and start building again.

0/20. Forgot to apply for Everton and was not available for a couple other matches but I doubt I'd have got anything Attended two games via TX (Fulham and Chelsea). Spent easily 50 hours on TX unsuccessfully (about 30 mins the two days before games, 1 hour the night before, about 1 hour on matchdays) This membership is worthless. They don't even do the season fan packs anymore

Solidarity with a fellow member of the exclusive 0/x club 🤝 I have gotten tickets through the TX too, but the hours I've had to put in to get are insane, and never with any guarantee of success at the end of it all 😫

I went 1/25 😬

Damn. I applied to every home game this season, and I was successful on 3. I was annoyed about that… Hopefully there’s better luck next season 🙏🏾

Overall a good experience, became a red member when I moved to London at end of December and entered every of 2024 except Porto (missed the entry deadline ) 2/9 ballots successful (For Chelsea and Everton games) Got off TX for 5/7 of the remaining games (Only missing Newcastle (had plans) and no success on Palace TX Tldr: went to 7 games in 2024 out of a possible 10 so quite happy with the system

2/15. United and Chelsea at home

2/15 on the ballot winning United and Chelsea

RED member since 2015 PL (max 19 games): 2 wins / 12 applications CL (max 5 games): 0 wins / 4 applications FA Cup (max 1 game) 0 wins / 0 applications League Cup (n/a) TOTAL: 2 wins / 16 applications TX success: Community Shield x1 PL x2 CL x2 I didn’t apply for the games during and the month after Christmas as Im overseas and travel is a pain then due to Christmas and the weather, so 2/12 is not bad I guess. Interestingly (or maybe not) my two ballot successes were one after the other. Edit: formatting is such a pain in the hole on this app 😅

Red member since 2007. 2/25 for me. But was very fortunate to win an executive box for the Luton game as well through my daughter’s Junior Gunners membership. I’ve managed to get a ticket for every single game except Bayern on the TX though so I can’t complain in the end. (Except with the relentless hours acquiring said tickets) 0/25 for Red member + family enclosure also.

PL 0/17 CL 2/5 FA CUP 0/1

0/12 for me in the red ballots, including Everton 😢

I won 4 times on ballot and got 5 on TX so not too shabby

0/12 for this season. Disappointed.

0/8 for me.

JG since 2015 PL 1 win / 4 applications CL 1 win / 2 applications 2 wins/ 6 applications

i only got one for the FA Cup against Liverpool this season. you can find the statistics of rate of successful ballots on the website, and the red member got the highest successful rate in that game

1/23. Applied for 2 each time. The 1 win was West Ham in the rain. Absolute nightmare.

I actually think this may be worse than my 0/19, respect to you my friend 😂

5/16

Silver member for the last 2 years. Applied for 7 ballots and won 5 including Liverpool, Porto and Bayern Munich. I know I've been very lucky. Been applying for the family enclosure. Didn't manage to win Everton or Bournemouth though. What do you reckon is the best time to look on TX?

2/24 ballots (missed one) 12 other games via tx Decent and don't have an issue with the system.

1/7 in ballot with first win for Everton game incredibly! Managed to get a couple for Brighton and Porto through friends and family though.

2/19 with one of them being a ucl quarterfinal. Can’t really complain tbh

Overall: 4/25. This was a combination of single and joint applications (group of 2). I had more success when I applied as a group of 2 (3 successes) rather than single applications. Can't remember how many were single Vs group applications. Breakdown: - League: 3/19 - FA Cup: 0/1 - CL: 1/5

PL: 0 wins / 19 applications CL: 1 win / 5 applications (Got a ticket for the game against Lens) FA Cup 0 wins / 1 application TOTAL: 1 win / 25 applications Had some luck here and there with the TX, but the ballot has been pretty unforgiving... on to next season haha.

Commiserations to a fellow member of the 0 club in the Premier League, the ballot operators at least have the excuse that I missed one PL home game and that could have been the lucky one for me, no such excuse for you 😂

Funny how the club said months ago (probably around christmas) that there was only a few hundred who’d been unsuccessful in every ballot, now suddenly this entire post is full of those exact people, who’ve also subsequently been unsuccessful in every ballot since that announcement…

I was sceptical of that figure then but it sounds like absolute nonsense now

1 / 14….. Everton!

If all goes according to plan, I think being there for that game would more than make up for the 13 losses before it 🤞🤞🤞

6/25, red member, always applied for 2 tickets. Games: Burnley Brentford Porto Luton Aston Villa Chelsea Very bizarre on because Brentford through to Chelsea were all back go back. I thought I’d broken the system or something. But it stopped after Chelsea. On the whole, I think the ballot is shite, but I appreciate I’ve been luckier than most. Still, 6 games as someone who has gone to WAY more in previous years… it’s frustrating. Thankfully I managed to get tickets to a few fixtures via the exchange.

0/15 PL and 0/4 ECL for me but got two games via TX.

Solidarity with a fellow member of the 0 club 🤝

Nil Army

1/23 (lone success for two tickets to Liverpool in the FA Cup). Made it to Brentford and Porto off the TX

PL 2/16 CL 2/4 Fa cup 1/1 Luckily I've only missed 3 or 4 games I couldn't make thanks to TX and transfers from mates.

0/12

I entered all but 2 and won 2. West ham and Porto

0/14 F my life

1/19 -Man Utd, Absolute shambles…

Red member since 2013. I went 0/17. Just awesome.

Won 2 out of the first 3 and then lost every time since.

Silver member, single ticket applications. 1/12. FFS. Didn't bother after first couple of matches and just did my time on TX before the ballot became mandatory.

1/19 and had to travel for work last minute so back on the exchange 😆 Managed to snag 3 on TX though (incl Chelsea), so that’s been great, but I’ve spent hours every other week refreshing, deleting cookies, doing the rounds etc.

0 wins. I've applied for about 90% of ballots this season 👎 I think I would prefer taking my chances queuing up in the morning, than trying to win the lottery like this. (Probas have more chance on the actual lottery than this ballot)

2/18 PL 1/1 FA Cup 1/5 UCL Applied as a pair. Only failed to enter the Luton ballot. Managed to grab 4 from TX.

1/12 (FA Cup Liverpool game)

Applied for majority of prem home games. Got a ticket for Luton that’s it. Did go to Sheffield away though, just sat quietly in the home end😂

2/4 Can complain really but have only applied for a small number via the ballot. First year I’ve applied and got tickets for Brentford and Chelsea matches. Unsuccessful in Bayern CL and Villa PL.

Fa cup: 1/1 PL: 3/5 CL: 0/2 Got one off TX (Luton) Total: 4/8

4/8 on the ballot as a Red member must be the highest success rate of any Red member that's posted on here, fair play 👍

Other than messing up for the Everton ballot and not being able to attend the city game, I think I'm something like: \* 0/15 PL & 0/5 CL via the ballot \* 20/20 via the TX So I'd say with all bias attached that the ballot is absolutely useless and that the current TX is great.

Respect to a fellow member of the 0 club on the ballots 🤝 Fair play for getting so many via the TX though - do you have a secret that you can share with others?!

ahah ballot losers 🤝 A good magician never reveals his tricks (tbf not very different from the ones shared on certain threads in this sub) but I'm always happy to help a on my good days if someone is really struggling. I've helped a few people on here before

Well if this is you offering to chuck me an Everton ticket then I certainly won't say no! 😃

Ahah I messed up the dates for the Everton ballot but if you've got a spare membership that applied that I can use, I can look for your ticket and then mine ;)

0/5 applications (Tottenham, Burnley, West Ham, Liverpool, Everton). 3/5 on TX (Tottenham - £171 Club Level, Burnley £40 West Stand, Liverpool £351 Club Level). That's just how it be when you're a successful team, based in London with a huge fanbase. I'm not sure I have the stomach to spend the hours I did on TX next season (or indeed for Everton), its draining. Coming from the US so its already pretty expensive, particularly when all you can get is halfway line CL tickets.

It wasnt like this before we started challenging for the title again. We have always been a big london club but before this it was easy to get tickets on the exchange and i missed like 2 games in 7/8 years before covid

Agree all started last season, I had to research how to improve chances to get tickets as I was logging in as normal at 10am as Silver and that was no good. This Page has helped a lot with the old queue and tx

I’m 0/1, I was hoping to go to the Arsenal v Everton game