In this guide
Who the Club Will Sell an Away Seat ToAway Credits, and What Changed This SeasonWhat the Autumn Sales Actually RequiredThe £30 Cap and What the Seats CostCollections, Scans and the Strike PolicyAway Ticket Exchange: Who Can Use ItRoutes Left for a Supporter Without CreditsBuying an Arsenal Away Seat on 1BoxOfficeThe 2026/27 Trips Worth Planning ForChecks Before You Pay for a Resale Away SeatFAQsArsenal's allocation of 3,052 seats for Liverpool away on 1 November 2026 went on sale on 28 September to members holding 50 or more Away Credits, and the club was still selling two days later at 15 or more before the Away Ticket Exchange took over at the same level. Those numbers explain why Arsenal away tickets are harder to obtain than a seat at Emirates Stadium: a supporter who joined this summer holds zero credits, and zero credits have not been enough to secure a Premier League away ticket in recent seasons.
Article Summary: Arsenal sells away seats to Platinum, Gold, Travel Club, Silver and Red Members in phases ranked by Away Credits, with the threshold lowered window by window until the allocation is gone. Silver and Red Members earn credits from 2026/27, but the big league trips still close at 15 to 30 credits, leaving zero-credit cup and European ties, host-club hospitality or the secondary market for everyone else.
- Arsenal's Tottenham Hotspur away sale for 22 February 2026 opened at 55 credits on 19 January and sold out at 30 credits on 22 January, for an allocation of 3,038, according to the club's ticket information page.
- Premier League away tickets cost £30 for adults under the cap that all 20 clubs extended on 19 March 2026 to the end of 2027/28; Arsenal charged £30, £22.50, £15 and £9 for its four price bands at Anfield in November 2026.
- Away Credits run on a rolling three-season window, so credits earned in 2023/24 were deleted at the start of 2026/27, according to the Arsenal help centre.
- Six Arsenal away fixtures sold out at zero credits in 2025/26, five of them in the Champions League and one in the FA Cup at Southampton, according to the club's annual ticketing update published in 2026.
- Arsenal's 2026/27 ticketing guide reports more than 17,500 memberships banned during the 2025/26 season, almost 74,000 accounts cancelled cumulatively since 2022/23 and more than 45,000 suspicious ballot entries removed.
Demand for the away end is why sold-out trips to Anfield, St James' Park or the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium reappear on resale sites within hours of the club's sale closing. Away fixtures sit alongside the home games on the Arsenal tickets listing, with the section, seat location and delivery method shown before checkout. 1BoxOffice has traded as a verified secondary marketplace since 2006 and backs every order with its 150% money-back guarantee, which matters more for an away seat than for any other purchase, for reasons set out below.
Who the Club Will Sell an Away Seat To
Eligibility comes before credits. Arsenal's away ticket information page states that tickets for away fixtures are allocated to members through a priority Away Credits system, with sales opening to Season Ticket Holders, Travel Club members and Silver and Red Members holding the most credits, then widening in priority order until the allocation is sold. A supporter with no membership at all has no route through the club for any away fixture, in the Premier League or anywhere else.
Where a fixture does not sell out to credit holders, the remaining tickets go to Gold, then Silver, then Red Members with zero credits, in that order. The table below sets out how each membership tier ranks in the priority order.
| Membership | Earns Away Credits | Position at zero credits | Notes for 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platinum and Gold Season Ticket Holders | Yes | First | Highest-ranked buyers for every away sale |
| Travel Club | Yes | With Season Ticket Holders | Legacy scheme, closed to new joiners |
| Silver Members | Yes, from 2026/27 | Second | New identity checks apply when buying away tickets |
| Red Members | Yes, from 2026/27 | Third | Entry tier, £38 per season for 2026/27 as of October 2026 |
| Junior Gunners and Cannon | Yes, from 2026/27 (Disability Access pages) | With their price tier | Under-16s must be bought with an adult ticket and accompanied on the day |
| Non-members | No | No club route | Host-club hospitality or the secondary market only |
The Red tier is where most new adult supporters start. Red Membership costs £38 per season for 2026/27 as of October 2026, and the help centre states that Red Members get a ballot for every home match plus access to the Ticket Exchange. The away benefit, new this season, is the ability to earn credits at all.
Away Credits, and What Changed This Season
One credit is earned per competitive men's first-team away fixture that a supporter buys for and attends, with matches at neutral venues excluded. The club calls them Away Credits on its ticketing pages and Away Points in its help centre; they are the same thing. Only the current season and the two before it count, so credits from 2023/24 disappeared when 2026/27 began, and the running total at the start of 2025/26 was capped at 54 points according to the help centre.
Supporters still search for the Arsenal away scheme, which is the old name. The Away Ticket Scheme was phased out over a two-season transition starting in 2021/22, and since 2023/24 access has been based solely on credits held. The Travel Club survives only for existing members. Four changes landed for 2026/27, all set out in the club's annual men's ticketing update:
- Silver and Red Members can now earn, keep and use Away Credits, where previously only Platinum, Gold and Travel Club members built a total.
- Carabao Cup fixtures are included in the Cup Scheme, the club's separate priority system for cup ties. Away credits are a different matter: EFL Cup away ties have always earned a credit because every competitive men's first-team away match does.
- Silver and Red Members who meet the club's away-points criteria get a dedicated priority window for cup final tickets.
- New identity verification applies to Red and Silver Members when they enter ballots, buy on the Ticket Exchange or buy away tickets.
The practical effect for a new Red Member is that the first credit now has somewhere to go. Each qualifying away match earns one credit, so a supporter who attends three zero-credit cup and European trips this season holds three credits next summer, and reaching the 15-credit band where the Liverpool and Newcastle sales finished means 15 qualifying away matches inside the rolling three-season window.
What the Autumn Sales Actually Required
The club publishes a sales-phase table on every away ticket information page, which makes the credit thresholds a matter of record rather than guesswork. The two current league sales, the Carabao Cup trip to Fleetwood and the north London derby from last season are set out below from those pages.
| Fixture | Allocation | Opening phase | Final phase | Exchange threshold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tottenham v Arsenal, 22 Feb 2026 | 3,038 (blocks 114 to 118) | 55+ on 19 January | 30+ on 22 January, sold out | Closed at 30+ |
| Liverpool v Arsenal, 1 Nov 2026 | 3,052 (blocks AL6 to AL9) | 50+ on 28 September, 10am | 15+ on 30 September, 11am | 15+, closing 23 October |
| Newcastle v Arsenal, 21 Nov 2026 | 3,214 (Leazes Stand) | 50+ on 19 October, 10am | 15+ on 22 October, 1pm | Opens once sold out |
| Fleetwood Town v Arsenal, 27 Oct 2026 (Carabao Cup) | 841 plus 100 added (Percy Ronson and Parkside Stands) | 60+ on 2 October, 10am | 45+ on 7 October, 11am, sold out | Not available for this fixture |
Read across the rows and the pattern is clear. The February 2026 Tottenham derby closed at 30 credits, which means 30 qualifying away matches inside the three-season window. Liverpool and Newcastle reached 15, which means 15 qualifying away matches across league, cup and European trips. A small ground cuts the other way: Fleetwood's 841-ticket allocation closed at 45, higher than the derby. The phases also move fast: the Tottenham sale dropped 25 credits in four days, and the Newcastle sale dropped 35 in three.
Zero-credit fixtures are where the window opens. In 2025/26 the club sold out at zero credits to Platinum, Gold and Travel Club members for Athletic Club, Inter Milan, Bayer Leverkusen, Sporting CP and Atletico Madrid in the Champions League, plus Southampton in the FA Cup. In 2026/27 Napoli away has already reached zero and went as far as the Silver and Red windows. Cup fixtures can offer larger away allocations than league matches, which is why the club itself points members towards them to build a total, though a fourth-round tie at a 5,000-capacity ground is the exception, as Fleetwood showed.
WhatsApp channel
Sports news straight to your phone
Match updates, on-sale dates and ticket news from 1BoxOffice.
The £30 Cap and What the Seats Cost
Premier League away tickets are capped at £30 for adults. The cap was first agreed for 2016/17 and all 20 clubs voted on 19 March 2026 to extend it to the end of 2027/28, according to the Football Supporters' Association. Arsenal's own price list for Anfield on 1 November 2026 shows how the host club applies concessions underneath the cap.
| Ticket type | Standard price | Accessibility price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult | £30.00 | £22.50 | £1 off restricted-view seats in rows 1 to 5 |
| Over 65 | £22.50 | £17.00 | Proof of age required on entry |
| Under 25 | £15.00 | £11.00 | Proof of age required on entry |
| Under 17 | £9.00 | £7.00 | Must be bought with an adult ticket |
Source: Arsenal ticket information page for Liverpool v Arsenal, prices as of October 2026. Accessibility prices include a complimentary personal assistant ticket, subject to eligibility. Coach travel through the club's provider, Corporate Travel Management, cost £35 per person for the same fixture.
European prices sit under UEFA's caps rather than the Premier League's: €50 in the Champions League, €35 in the Europa League and €20 in the Conference League from 2025/26. Cup away prices are set by the home club and vary by round. Concession prices at every ground differ, so the band structure above is Liverpool's, not a league standard; the Premier League ticket price index tracks how the clubs compare.
Collections, Scans and the Strike Policy
An Arsenal away seat is tied to the member who bought it, and the club has built an enforcement system around that fact. Ticket collections are in place for most games: supporters chosen for a spot check are emailed in advance and must collect in person at a designated point with original photographic ID. Photographs or copies of ID are refused, third-party collection is not permitted and the ID must match the name on the ticket.
Attendance is then checked against the host club's turnstile data. If a ticket does not scan, the credit for that match is removed, and the club states that it will not accept photographs, receipts, travel or hotel bookings as proof of attendance. Separate sanctions apply for failing to collect a ticket when instructed:
- First strike: lose one Away Credit.
- Second strike: lose ten Away Credits.
- Third strike: lose every Away Credit held.
- Selling or attempting to sell a ticket above face value risks the loss of the Season Ticket or membership entirely.
The scale of that enforcement is in the annual ticketing update. The club's 2026/27 ticketing guide reports more than 17,500 memberships banned during the 2025/26 season for breaches of its ticketing policies, almost 74,000 accounts cancelled cumulatively since 2022/23 and more than 45,000 suspicious ballot entries removed. A member whose away ticket turns up on a resale site risks losing their membership, which is why so few are sold on and why the ones that are carry a premium.
Away Ticket Exchange: Who Can Use It
The Away Ticket Exchange replaced the old transfer system and opens only once a fixture has sold out. A member who cannot attend lists the ticket for resale through the club, and the buyer must be a Qualifying Supporter, meaning someone who held enough credits to buy in the original sale. For Liverpool away that meant Platinum, Gold, Travel Club, Silver and Red Members with 15 or more credits, with the service closing at 12pm on 23 October.
Two limits matter. The Exchange may not run at all for fixtures with a short turnaround, which the club flags for early-season and cup games. And away tickets are not refundable, so a member who cannot sell on the Exchange simply loses the money. There is no forwarding to a friend and no family transfer, which is a stricter position than the home Ticket Exchange and the reason a supporter with 14 credits cannot borrow a seat from one with 40.
Routes Left for a Supporter Without Credits
Start with the club. A Red Membership bought now is very unlikely to reach a Premier League away end this season on current thresholds, but it can buy a zero-credit European or cup trip, and each one earns a credit that counts for three seasons. The guide to buying Champions League tickets covers how the league-phase trips are sold, and the club's list of fixtures that reached zero credits runs to 13 matches across the last three seasons, every one of them in Europe or a domestic cup. European away listings appear under Champions League tickets once the draw is made.
Hospitality is the second route. Host clubs sell hospitality packages for every home match, and those seats sit in home areas, with the club's neutral-colours and conduct rules attached. The Arsenal hospitality packages guide sets out how packages are priced and what they include; the same logic applies at an opponent's ground, usually at several hundred pounds a seat for a top-six fixture.
The secondary market is the third, and it needs stating plainly. Under section 166 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, an unauthorised person who sells a ticket for a designated football match in England and Wales commits an offence. The club's own rules mean a resold away-end ticket exposes the original member to a ban, and a buyer who cannot produce matching ID at a spot check will not get in. Since 22 March 2026 the buyer is exposed too: under the Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Act 2026, entering or attempting to enter a designated match without a ticket you are eligible to use is itself an offence in England and Wales, subject to statutory defences, including that you reasonably believed the ticket was one you could use. A home-section or hospitality seat is not outside that law either, and host clubs apply their own ID checks and ticket conditions, so check that you are eligible to use the ticket and read the host club's conditions of entry before buying, along with the section description and the seller's standing on any listing. The approach set out for buying Arsenal tickets without membership at the Emirates applies in full to away days.
Supporters in the UAE and the wider Gulf face the same credit rules as anyone in London, since membership and credits are tied to the account rather than an address. Nothing in the club's published away rules gives overseas supporters clubs an allocation of their own. The practical difference is timing: the Liverpool fixture kicks off at 16:30 UK time, which is 20:30 in Abu Dhabi and Dubai once British clocks go back on 25 October, and most 2026/27 away listings are delivered digitally, so a buyer abroad needs the app and the email address on the order to match.
Buying an Arsenal Away Seat on 1BoxOffice
Away fixtures appear on 1BoxOffice as sellers post inventory, with the heaviest listings for the north London derby, Anfield and the two Manchester grounds. The process below is the same for every match.
Step1
Find the fixture
Open the Arsenal listing and select the trip you want, checking the host stadium and the date, since Premier League kick-off times move for television several weeks before the match.
Step2
Create an account or log in
Set up an account through the 1BoxOffice registration page so delivery details and order history are saved before the seats you want are taken.
Step3
Choose the section carefully
Filter by section and price. Read the section description to see whether the seat sits in a home stand, a hospitality area or the visiting section, because the behaviour expected of you differs in each, and because the club's away-end tickets are issued to a named member who may be spot-checked for ID.
Step4
Review the delivery method
Confirm the fixture, quantity, section and delivery method at checkout. Most 2026/27 listings are digital, so note whether delivery is by app transfer or a mobile pass and when the seller will release it.
Step5
Complete payment
Pay securely to confirm the order. Under the 150% money-back guarantee in the current terms, a buyer who is offered no alternative and never receives the tickets is eligible for a full refund and may also receive, as a goodwill gesture, a credit voucher worth 50% of the order value, excluding service fees and taxes and capped at £125. Travel and accommodation costs are not covered.
Step6
Track the order
Follow delivery progress through track order, and on matchday check the block, row and any name printed on the ticket against the order before travelling.
The 2026/27 Trips Worth Planning For
Dates below are as listed on 1BoxOffice in October 2026 and remain subject to television selection. The credit estimates are projections from the sales recorded this autumn and last winter, not club announcements.
| Fixture | Date and venue | Likely closing credits | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fleetwood Town vs Arsenal, Carabao Cup | 27 October 2026, Highbury Stadium | 45+ (recorded) | 841 tickets plus 100 added later, sold out 7 October, no Away Ticket Exchange, hard-copy tickets, £32 adult |
| Liverpool vs Arsenal | 1 November 2026, Anfield | 15+ (recorded) | 3,052 tickets, sale closed 30 September, Exchange at 15+ |
| Newcastle United vs Arsenal | 21 November 2026, St James' Park | 15+ (recorded) | 3,214 tickets in the Leazes Stand, final phase 22 October |
| Tottenham Hotspur vs Arsenal | 6 December 2026, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium | 30+ | Last season's derby closed at 30+ with no Exchange availability |
| Manchester City vs Arsenal | 30 January 2027, Etihad Stadium | 25 to 35 | Title-race fixture against the side Arsenal overtook in 2025/26 |
| Manchester United vs Arsenal | 27 February 2027, Old Trafford | 25 to 35 | Historically one of the fastest away sales of the season |
| Chelsea vs Arsenal | 13 March 2027, Stamford Bridge | 25 to 35 | London derby with a tight Shed End allocation |
The two Manchester trips and the derby are the fixtures where a credits-based estimate is least reliable, because last season's title run pushed demand at every ground. The sister guides to Liverpool away tickets and Manchester United away tickets show how differently those clubs rank their own supporters, which is useful context when the reverse fixture comes round.
Checks Before You Pay for a Resale Away Seat
Five checks separate a seat you will sit in from one you will argue about at a turnstile. The same checks apply at home: the Emirates Stadium tickets listing and the Emirates Stadium seating plan show where a resale seat sits before you pay, and the Clock End lower tier became licensed standing in 2026/27, including the away section.
- Confirm which section the seat is in. A visiting-section ticket is issued to a named Arsenal member and can be spot-checked by the club; home-area and hospitality seats fall under the host club's own ID and entry conditions.
- Match the delivery window to the club's dispatch date. Arsenal sends most away tickets around four weeks before the match, so a seller promising an away-end pass in August for a February derby is promising something the club has not issued.
- Check the host club's rules on colours and conduct in home areas before buying there, since ejection for visible colours is at the steward's discretion.
- Read what the guarantee covers. 1BoxOffice's 150% money-back guarantee applies where tickets are never delivered and no alternative is offered; it is not a promise about entry and it does not extend to travel or accommodation.
- Keep the name on the order consistent with the ID you will carry, because digital passes and spot checks both key off a name.
FAQs
1. Can Red Members buy away tickets at Arsenal?
-
Red Members can buy in any sales phase their credit total reaches, and from 2026/27 they earn credits, but a Red Member with zero credits only gets a fixture that fails to sell out to Gold and Silver Members first.
2. How many away points do you need for a Premier League away game?
-
The threshold varies by fixture: 15 credits bought the final phase for Liverpool and Newcastle away in autumn 2026, while the Tottenham derby in February 2026 never dropped below 30, and each sale's phases are published on the club's ticket information page.
3. Does an Arsenal away ticket include travel?
-
Travel is sold separately after the ticket booking, through the club's provider Corporate Travel Management, and coach seats for Liverpool away in November 2026 cost £35 per person.
4. What happens if I have an away ticket but cannot go?
-
Away tickets are non-refundable, so the only club-approved option is to list the ticket on the Away Ticket Exchange once it opens, where it can be bought by another member holding the required credits.
5. Can I get an Arsenal away ticket from the UAE?
-
Membership and credits work the same from Abu Dhabi or Dubai as from London, so a Gulf-based member needs the same credit total as anyone else, and the realistic routes without credits are host-club hospitality or a verified secondary listing in a home section.
For the few thousand members with a full three-season away record, the club's sale remains the way in. For everyone else, 1BoxOffice lists Arsenal away fixtures as sellers make tickets available, with the section and delivery method stated up front, backed by the 150% money-back guarantee set out in its current terms, from a marketplace that has traded since 2006.
Sources: Arsenal FC ticket information pages for Liverpool, Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur away, Arsenal FC away tickets page, Arsenal FC help centre, Arsenal FC Red Membership page, Arsenal FC annual men's ticketing update 2026, Arsenal FC 2026/27 ticketing guide, Arsenal FC ticket information page for Fleetwood Town away, Premier League statement of 19 March 2026, Football Supporters' Association, UEFA, Premier League fixture list.
