- AFL Grand Final hospitality tickets were illegally downloaded
- The league has had to cancel the barcodes on the affected tickets
- Chaos arrived just days before the big match between Sydney and Brisbane.
Some corporate tickets for the sold-out AFL Grand Final have been illegally downloaded, forcing the league to cancel the barcodes on the affected tickets.
Victoria Police and the AFL Integrity Unit are investigating unauthorised access to corporate hospitality tickets on the AFL Events Office platform.
Illegal downloading has forced the AFL to delay Tuesday’s scheduled delivery of corporate hospitality tickets purchased through the events office.
Sydney will face Brisbane at the MCG in Saturday’s grand final.
In a statement, the AFL said it had been “informed this morning of unauthorised access to a number of batches of these tickets”.
“The AFL Events Office has identified that some corporate tickets to a number of experiences were illegally downloaded and the AFL Integrity Unit is now liaising with Victoria Police regarding the matter,” the statement read.
‘Victoria Police are investigating unauthorised access to AFL events office entrances.’
The AFL said affected customers were those who had tickets purchased through the events office for the hospitality experiences Before the Bounce; Crown Grand Final Breakfast; Grand Final Plus Pass; The Hassett Room; Ultimate Nobu and; Ultimate Suite.
AFL Grand Final corporate hospitality tickets were illegally downloaded
“Out of an abundance of caution, the AFL has cancelled all barcodes for these corporate hospitality experience tickets… and will reissue the tickets later this week,” the AFL said.
‘Relevant ticket holders who purchased a ticket for an experience from the AFL Events Office and received a ticket today… must delete those tickets as the barcode will not work on Saturday at the MCG.’
The AFL said club members, AFL, MCC and Medallion Club members, as well as corporate suite and September Club holders were not affected.