In this guide
Who the Club Will Sell an Away Seat ToNineteen Credits and CountingWhat the Autumn Sales Actually RequiredThe £30 Cap and What the Seats CostWhy a Domestic Away Ticket Cannot Change HandsRoutes Left for a Supporter Without CreditsBuying a Liverpool Seat on 1BoxOfficeThe 2026/27 Trips Worth Planning ForChecks Before You Pay for a Resale Away SeatFAQsLiverpool's allocation of 1,725 seats for Brentford away on 17 October 2026 went on sale at a Premier League Away Match Credit Balance of 19, which is every league away game from 2025/26, and the sale closed at 17. That one number explains why Liverpool away tickets are among the hardest seats in English football to obtain through the club: a supporter who missed three league trips last season could not buy for Brentford at all, and the bigger fixtures of the winter will follow the same pattern.
Article Summary: Liverpool sells away seats only to Season Ticket Holders and All Red Full, Light and Junior members, ranked by match credits earned in 2025/26, with the required balance set per fixture and lowered through successive sale windows until the allocation is gone. Premier League and domestic cup away tickets cannot be forwarded or resold. Supporters without credits are left with home-section seats, host-club hospitality or the secondary market, each with its own rules.
- Liverpool's Crystal Palace away sale on 8 October 2026 opened at 17 credits and closed at 14, for an allocation of 2,806, 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.
- All Red Full membership costs £42.99 for 2026/27, Light costs £26.99 and Junior costs £20.99; Video and Essential tiers give no ticket access.
- Champions League away tickets are capped at €50 by UEFA, and Liverpool charged £42.79 for LASK away on 14 October 2026 and £38.20 for Fenerbahce away on 4 November 2026.
- Liverpool issued 1,114 lifetime bans for ticketing offences in 2024/25, up from 75 the season before, according to BBC Sport.
Demand for the away end is the reason sold-out trips to Hill Dickinson Stadium, Old Trafford or the Emirates reappear on resale sites within hours of the club's sale closing. Away fixtures sit alongside the Anfield games on the Liverpool 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. Liverpool's away ticket information page states that all away tickets are sold match by match, that the majority go to supporters with a Credit Balance and that eligibility for Premier League trips is determined by the supporter's Premier League Away Credit Balance. A credit only counts if the account holding it is a Season Ticket Holder or an All Red member on a tier that includes ticket sales. The table below is drawn from the club's 2026/27 All Red membership page and its away ticket terms as published in October 2026.
| Supporter type | 2026/27 cost | Away sale access |
|---|---|---|
| Season Ticket Holder | Waiting list closed | Yes, ranked by Credit Balance |
| All Red Full member | £42.99 per season | Yes, ranked by Credit Balance |
| All Red Light member | £26.99 per season | Yes, ranked by Credit Balance |
| All Red Junior member | £20.99 per season | Yes, junior pricing where offered |
| All Red Video member | £4.99 per month | No ticket access |
| All Red Essential member | Free | No ticket access |
| Supporter with no membership | Nil | No route through the club |
A paid membership is therefore the floor, not the ticket. A brand new Full member starts 2026/27 with a Premier League Away Credit Balance of zero, because the balance this season counts only credits earned in 2025/26, and no membership tier adds credits on purchase. The club's page does say that "on rare occasions" Season Ticket Holders and All Red members may register for a sale that does not require a credit balance, and that wording should be read literally: it has applied to small allocations and unpopular dates, not to the derby or the trip to Manchester. Supporters chasing Anfield seats face a different system, covered in the home ticket guide, where ballots rather than away credits decide most sales.
Nineteen Credits and Counting
Liverpool now keeps eight separate Credit Balances per supporter: Premier League home and away, European home and away, FA Cup home and away and League Cup home and away. Each competition's away sale reads only its own balance, so a supporter with a full set of Anfield credits and no away trips has nothing to offer when a league away game goes on sale. The club's multi-year loyalty page sets out how the balances build:
- Premier League away in 2026/27: credits from 2025/26 only, giving a maximum possible balance of 19.
- Premier League away in 2027/28: credits from 2025/26 and 2026/27 combined.
- Premier League away from 2028/29: a rolling three-season window, with the oldest season dropping off each summer.
- European, FA Cup and League Cup away in 2026/27: credits from 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26 already count together.
Earning a credit differs by competition. The club's help centre states that for Premier League and domestic cup away games a credit is earned simply by buying a match ticket, with no attendance check. For European away games the credit depends on attendance: the buyer must go, or forward the ticket through Ticket Forwarding to someone on their Friends and Family list who goes, and the host club's stadium access data decides whether the credit is awarded. A ticket received through forwarding earns no credit, and neither does a seat won through a hospitality ballot.
Balances are visible game by game in the Match Credits section of the Liverpool app, with a summary in My Account on the ticketing site. Checking there before a sale window opens avoids the common mistake of assuming that a home credit, or a credit from two seasons ago, counts towards a league away trip this season. It does not.
What the Autumn Sales Actually Required
The thresholds are not published in advance as a season-long rule. Each fixture page sets a starting balance that reflects both the allocation and the expected demand, then lowers it through successive sale windows until the tickets are gone, and the five Premier League sales completed so far show how little room there is for the bigger fixtures. Figures below come from the club's ticket information pages for each match and were checked on 21 October 2026.
| Fixture (2026/27) | Allocation | Opening balance | Lowest balance reached | Adult price | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newcastle United away, 23 Aug 2026 | 3,214 | 7 or more (3 Aug) | 4 or more (4 to 5 Aug) | £30 | One-off NFC pass to smartphone |
| Ipswich Town away, 4 Sep 2026 | 3,000 | 15 or more (10 Aug) | 12 or more (11 to 12 Aug) | £30 | One-off NFC pass to smartphone |
| AFC Bournemouth away, 20 Sep 2026 | 1,361 | 19 (26 Aug) | 17 or more (27 Aug) | £30 | One-off NFC pass to smartphone |
| Brentford away, 17 Oct 2026 | 1,725 | 19 (22 Sep) | 17 or more (23 Sep) | £30 | Printed ticket, posted or collected |
| Crystal Palace away, 8 Nov 2026 | 2,806 | 17 or more (8 Oct) | 14 or more (9 to 12 Oct) | £30 | One-off NFC pass to smartphone |
| LASK away, Champions League, 14 Oct 2026 | 1,928 | 9 or more European credits (23 Sep) | 7 or more (24 Sep) | £42.79 | Digital, with forwarding allowed |
| Fenerbahce away, Champions League, 4 Nov 2026 | 1,943 | 8 or more European credits (16 Oct) | 6 (21 Oct) | £38.20 | Digital, with forwarding allowed |
Two patterns stand out. First, smaller allocations generally push thresholds higher, although demand also matters: Bournemouth's 1,361 seats and Brentford's 1,725 both needed a perfect 19 and Ipswich's 3,000 opened at 15, while Newcastle's 3,214 on the opening weekend of the season went as low as four, the one sale this autumn that a modest away record could reach. Second, the drop is slow once demand is there. Palace fell only three credits across two days before selling out at 14, so a supporter who attended 13 league away games in 2025/26 was still shut out of Selhurst Park. Sales for the trips that matter most, including Everton, Manchester United, Arsenal and Manchester City, had not been announced on the club's site when this guide was checked, and on the evidence above they are likely to sell out at or near the guaranteed window. Liverpool's Premier League tickets as a whole follow the same arithmetic: fixed allocations, variable demand and a credit order that rewards the same few thousand supporters whenever a trip is popular.
European trips are easier only in relative terms. The LASK sale opened at nine European away credits out of a possible three seasons' worth, and Fenerbahce opened at eight and reached six on 21 October, after the club's safety team voluntarily cut the allocation by 476 seats because of restricted views and unreserved seating at the Ulker Stadium. Supporters who have been following the Reds across Europe since the 2023/24 campaign therefore stand a better chance in the Champions League tickets queue than in the domestic one; the Champions League ticket guide covers the UEFA rules in more detail.
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The £30 Cap and What the Seats Cost
Away pricing is the one part of this system that favours the supporter. Premier League clubs extended the £30 adult cap for a further two seasons on 19 March 2026, taking it to the end of 2027/28, and the Football Supporters' Association reported the decision as a unanimous vote. Liverpool's five league away sales this season have all charged £30 for adults. Concessions vary by host, because the home club sets them: Brentford charged £10 for under-17s, Crystal Palace charged £19 for under-18s and Ipswich charged £15. A fuller breakdown of how the cap sits against home prices is in the Premier League ticket price index.
UEFA caps visiting supporters' prices at €50 in the Champions League, €35 in the Europa League and €20 in the Conference League, rules introduced for 2025/26 and still in force. Domestic cup away games have no cap, so prices follow the host club's own list; Liverpool's early-round ties in the EFL Cup this season have been at Anfield, and no FA Cup away sale has yet been published for 2026/27. Coach travel from Arkles Lane is sold alongside the tickets and cost £43 for Brentford, £45.50 for Crystal Palace and £46 for Ipswich, as of the respective sale dates in August to October 2026.
| Ticket type | Face value, 2026/27 | Who sets it |
|---|---|---|
| Premier League away, adult | £30 | League-wide cap to end of 2027/28 |
| Premier League away, junior | £10 to £19 (Brentford to Palace) | Host club |
| Champions League away, adult | €50 cap (£38.20 to £42.79 charged) | UEFA cap, converted by Liverpool |
| FA Cup or League Cup away | No cap | Host club |
| Coach from Anfield | £43 to £46 per trip | Liverpool travel club |
Why a Domestic Away Ticket Cannot Change Hands
This is the section that decides how a supporter without credits should behave. The club's away ticket page states that tickets for Premier League away games are not available via the Ticket Exchange and cannot be forwarded to other supporters, and repeats the same rule for FA Cup and League Cup away games. European away tickets are the only exception: they can be forwarded, but only to a Friends and Family account created before a fixture-specific deadline, and the buyer must declare the forwarding at purchase. The club says it issues tickets exclusively to its own supporters to maintain segregation between home and away fans.
Delivery reinforces the rule. For Ipswich and Crystal Palace the ticket was a one-off NFC pass emailed to the buyer's smartphone a few days before the match, tied to the account that earned the credit. Brentford used printed tickets, which is why that fixture produced more resale listings than the two NFC games, but the club's conditions still forbid passing them on. Enforcement has teeth: BBC Sport reported in September 2025 that Liverpool issued 1,114 lifetime bans in 2024/25, closed 145,000 fake ticketing accounts over two years and shut down 162 social media resale groups. In one case reported by the BBC, a Manchester man was banned from football for three years after Merseyside Police said he had targeted Liverpool fans in Egypt and Saudi Arabia with fake tickets.
The law sits behind the club. Section 166 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 makes it an offence to sell, or offer to sell, a ticket for a designated football match in England and Wales without the organiser's authorisation. The draft Ticket Tout Ban Bill, set out alongside the King's Speech in May 2026, would go further by capping resale at the original price plus unavoidable fees across live events, sport included, but the government is preparing the draft bill for pre-legislative scrutiny, and it is not yet law. Taken together, the club's conditions and the 1994 Act mean a Premier League away-end ticket is the single highest-risk purchase on any marketplace, and a buyer should treat it that way.
Routes Left for a Supporter Without Credits
The options below involve home seating and hospitality, with additional advice for overseas supporters, and the away end itself is not among them. Liverpool states that Premier League away tickets are strictly non-transferable, so an away-end listing for a league game is a ticket the club has said cannot change hands, and buying or selling it may breach both the club's conditions and the law described above.
Hospitality at the host ground. Opposition clubs sell hospitality and ticket-plus-hotel packages in home areas for the Liverpool fixture, and those sales are open to anyone. Manchester United's packages for the 23 January 2027 game place guests in home tiers of Old Trafford, and Everton's hospitality for the derby at Hill Dickinson Stadium is sold on the same basis, with the usual condition that visiting colours and celebrations are not permitted. For the reverse fixtures at Anfield, the Liverpool hospitality guide sets out what each lounge includes.
Home-section seats. A general sale or membership sale at the host club puts a Liverpool supporter among home fans. Away supporters may be refused entry or ejected from home sections, even if they do not wear club colours or celebrate, and ground regulations give no refund when that happens. It is the route most overseas supporters end up taking, and it should be chosen with eyes open rather than stumbled into.
Overseas supporters and the Gulf. Recognised Liverpool supporters' club branches (OLSC) receive allocations for Anfield, not for away games, and branches state plainly that away tickets cannot be obtained through them. A supporter in Dubai, Riyadh or Cairo can buy an All Red membership from anywhere, but with no 2025/26 credits the membership opens nothing this season. Given that touts have specifically targeted Egyptian and Saudi fans, as the Merseyside Police case shows, a Gulf-based buyer should deal only with a marketplace that publishes its guarantee terms and verifies sellers.
Buying a Liverpool Seat on 1BoxOffice
Away fixtures appear on 1BoxOffice as sellers post inventory, with the heaviest listings for the derby, Old Trafford and the London grounds. The process below is the same for every match.
Step1
Find the fixture
Open the Liverpool 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 1BoxOffice register 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 or a hospitality area, because the behaviour expected of you differs in each, and bear in mind that the club says its Premier League away-end tickets cannot be transferred at all.
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, a buyer who is offered no alternative and never receives the tickets is eligible for a full refund and may also receive a credit voucher worth 50% of the order value, excluding fees and taxes and capped at £125.
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 21 October 2026 and remain subject to broadcast changes. The difficulty column reflects the credit evidence from the completed sales above and the allocation each ground normally gives Liverpool.
| Date | Fixture | Likely allocation | Club sale difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 4 Nov 2026 | Fenerbahce vs Liverpool | 1,943 | Opened at 8 credits; 6-credit sale on 21 October |
| Sun 8 Nov 2026 | Crystal Palace vs Liverpool | 2,806 | Sold out at 14 credits |
| Sun 29 Nov 2026 | Everton vs Liverpool | About 3,000 | Expect the full 19 |
| Sat 5 Dec 2026 | Chelsea vs Liverpool | About 3,000 | High, 17 or more likely |
| Sat 23 Jan 2027 | Manchester United vs Liverpool | About 3,000 | Expect the full 19 |
| Sat 6 Feb 2027 | Arsenal vs Liverpool | About 3,000 | High, 17 or more likely |
| Sat 27 Feb 2027 | Tottenham Hotspur vs Liverpool | About 3,000 | High, 16 or more likely |
| Sat 8 May 2027 | Manchester City vs Liverpool | About 3,000 | Expect the full 19 |
The difficulty estimates for fixtures not yet on sale are projections from the Ipswich, Brentford and Palace sales, not club statements. Premier League rules normally require the host to make 3,000 tickets available to visiting supporters, or 10% of capacity at grounds under 30,000, subject to agreement between the clubs, which is why Brentford and Selhurst Park offer fewer and Newcastle offered 3,214.
Checks Before You Pay for a Resale Away Seat
A short list, because the rules above make each item consequential.
- Confirm the section. A listing described as the away end for a Premier League game is a ticket Liverpool says is strictly non-transferable, and unauthorised resale may breach club rules and the law; a home-section or hospitality seat sold by the host club carries far less risk.
- Match the delivery method to the fixture. Palace and Ipswich tickets were one-off NFC passes issued to the named buyer; a seller promising a transferable file for those games is promising something the club did not issue.
- Check the guarantee terms, in writing, before paying. The 150% money-back guarantee on 1BoxOffice applies when no alternative is offered and the tickets never arrive.
- Travel with the order confirmation and the seller's instructions, and arrive early enough to resolve a gate query before kick-off.
- Leave the colours at home for any seat in a home stand or hospitality area.
FAQs
1. How many credits do you need for a Liverpool away game?
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Liverpool sets the balance per fixture, and the 2026/27 Premier League sales so far have opened between seven and 19 credits from the 2025/26 season and reached final published sale thresholds between four and 17, with the popular trips closing at 14 or above.
2. Can new All Red members buy away tickets?
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New members hold a zero away balance for 2026/27 because only 2025/26 credits count, so their first realistic club sale is a rare registration sale that waives the credit requirement.
3. Do Liverpool match credits reset each season?
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Credits now roll forward under the multi-year loyalty system, with Premier League away balances growing to a three-season window by 2028/29 and the oldest season dropping off each year after that.
4. Can a Liverpool away ticket be transferred to a friend?
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Only European away tickets can be forwarded, and only to a Friends and Family account created before the deadline the club sets for that fixture, which was 26 August 2026 for the LASK trip.
5. Can supporters abroad get away tickets through a Liverpool supporters' club?
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Recognised Liverpool supporters' club branches (OLSC) receive allocations for Anfield only, so a member in the Gulf, North America or elsewhere has no away route through the branch.
For the few thousand supporters with a full 2025/26 away record, the club's sale remains the way in. For everyone else, 1BoxOffice lists Liverpool 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: Liverpool FC ticket information pages for Newcastle United, Ipswich Town, AFC Bournemouth, Brentford, Crystal Palace, LASK and Fenerbahce away, Liverpool FC away tickets and multi-year loyalty pages, Liverpool FC help centre, Liverpool FC All Red membership page, Premier League statement of 19 March 2026, Football Supporters' Association, UEFA, BBC Sport, Merseyside Police, legislation.gov.uk, GOV.UK, Slaughter and May and Farrer briefings on the draft Ticket Tout Ban Bill, Premier League Handbook, OLSC Denver.
