Derby County at Wembley: Tickets go on general sale

WEMBLEY tickets for Derby County's play-off final went on sale to the general public at 9am today - and 13,000 were snapped up within the first half-an-hour. Thousands of fans rushed online at http://www.seetickets.com/go/derbycounty, while others booked over the phone on 0844 854 1359. At 9.01am, the website was already flooded with fans trying to book tickets. A message on the website read: "Your request has been placed in a queue. "This site is currently receiving very high volumes of traffic. You're seeing this holding page because we've reached the maximum number of transactions we are able to handle at one time. "You are being held at this holding page until a space on the booking page becomes available." At 9.25am, the Derby Telegraph was put through to the purchasing page - a wait of 24 minutes. Within the first 15 minutes, 6,000 tickets had been sold. A further 7,000 went inside the following 15 minutes. No tickets are available over the counter.

30 minutes in 13000 sold. Very good feedback

— DCFC Tickets (@DCFCtickets) May 17, 2014

15 minutes into general sale and 6,000 tickets sold. All systems working well just HUGE demand

— DCFC Tickets (@DCFCtickets) May 17, 2014

Tickets for #DCFC's Play-Off Final Vs #QPR are now available on General Sale: http://t.co/30qqsSmmSJ#DerbyNowAlwayspic.twitter.com/z2Aon1Z5Mg

— Derby County (@dcfcofficial) May 17, 2014

Because about 20,000 were bought during the first period of sale, it means there are around 17,000 Championship play-off final tickets left for remaining Rams fans. Tickets had been on sale for current full and half season-ticket holders, new 2014-15 season ticket holders, home members (including the Rams Squad juniors) and 6&12 package customers. Brandon Furse, head of ticket sales and services at the football club, said there were about 75,000 to 80,000 registered fans who became eligible to buy tickets when they went on sale at 9am. Some fans who have already bought their tickets started receiving them through the post yesterday, including Kit Campbell, 31, of Crewton Way, Alvaston, and his son Owen, eight. He said: "I went to Wembley in 2007 but my son has never been and we're both really excited." The Rams have been allocated 37,249 tickets for the West End of Wembley Stadium for the match on Saturday, May 24, and the club is using SEE tickets to sell them. Derby County said it supplied SEE with all its customer number for fans who qualified for the general-sale period yesterday afternoon at 3pm. Anyone who received a customer number after this time will not be included in the list of supporters qualifying for general-sale tickets. And, to qualify, supporters must use this valid Derby County customer number when buying their ticket. All supporters who qualified for period-one sales can purchase an extra two tickets during general sale. Pricing is split into five sections, from £36 to £98. There is also a concession rate for people over the age of 65 and for children aged 16 and under. Meanwhile, all 60 of the club's RoadRider coaches travelling from the iPro Stadium to Wembley are now full.