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How to get Premier League tickets from 
South Africa
The short version: for the big clubs, you almost always need a paid membership and some luck in a ballot, or you pay for official hospitality. Anything else risks a cancelled ticket at the turnstile.
1. Buy a membership
Big-club tickets go almost entirely to paying members, through ballots or priority windows. Overseas fans can join.
- Arsenal Red: £38 a season (about R833) (Arsenal).
- Tottenham One Hotspur: from about £45, per third-party reports. Check the price on tottenhamhotspur.com.
Liverpool, Manchester United and Manchester City run their own membership schemes, with member sales and ballots. Check each club's site for prices.
Arsenal
Manchester United
Manchester City2. Enter the ballot, then try official resale
Members enter a ballot for each match. At Arsenal, the official Ticket Exchange is open only to members who entered that match's ballot and lost (Arsenal). Tottenham says its Premier League games aren't expected to reach general sale (Tottenham).
3. Or pay for official hospitality
This is the only guaranteed route for the big games. Arsenal's packages start "from" £239 (Academy), £299 (Dial Square) and £599 (Foundry Legends), and derbies cost more (hospitality.arsenal.com). Book on the club's own hospitality site.
4. Don't buy from touts
In 
England and 
Wales, it's an offence for anyone without the club's written permission to sell a ticket for a designated football match, and Premier League games are designated. "Advertising that a ticket is available" counts as selling (Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, s166; 2007 designation order). Clubs cancel tickets and ban memberships bought this way, so you could fly 9,000 km and be turned away. That's why MatchFare only links to official sellers.
5. Budget for the 
UK visa
South African passport holders need a UK Standard Visitor visa: £135, about R3,092 from SA, plus optional VFS fees (Home Office). Apply up to 3 months before you travel, and before you've won a ballot if your dates are fixed.
Kick-off times
Weekend Premier League games kick off at 15:00 UK time unless moved for TV, and TV picks are usually announced about six weeks out. UK time is SAST minus 2 hours in winter and minus 1 hour from 28 March 2027.
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