Wolves’ plea for thousands more tickets for Sunday’s crucial clash at Leicester has been rejected by the Foxes.
Chief executive Jez Moxey wants Leicester to up the away allocation for the Walkers Stadium clash.
He has been involved in a month of negotiations to try to lift the 3,100 allocation.
It is believed the Foxes have more than 6,000 unsold tickets for the make-or-break clash but they are opting to leave them unsold - leaving thousands of Wolves fans disappointed.
Molineux season-ticket holders snapped up all of the tickets for the crunch clash early last week.
“We have tried everything we can to try and get more tickets for the game and have been involved in detailed discussions with Leicester about the allocation,” Moxey said.
“Those discussions resulted in the Leicester chief executive and owner coming back to us yesterday and despite our conversations we will not be getting more tickets for the match.”
The Foxes - who are eager to appease their fans as they prepare to release season ticket prices for next season - decided not to up the Wolves allocation.
Moxey admits it is a disappointment but has appealed for Wolves fans without tickets not to turn up at Leicester.
“The situation as of 4.15pm yesterday is that we won’t be getting any more tickets and there is nothing we can now do.
“As a consequence we would appeal to supporters without tickets not to travel to Leicester,” he said.
Meanwhile, the club have opted not to beam back the showdown to fans without tickets.
Moxey said there has been no demand to show the game at Molineux but said the club would consider selling tickets to a screening of the away leg of of the play-offs - if they make it.
In 2003 the club sold out the Terrace Bar at Molineux for a similar event.
Sky Sports have opted to show promoted Blues at Preston and Albion’s must-win match against Barnsley live.
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The game is set for a sell out rather than the above quoted “6,000 unsold tickets”!!
There won’t be 6,000 unsold tickets - over 1,000 alone was sold on monday, probably another 1,000 by now, so that report does it injustice
Yes the 6000 tickets are being bought by wolves fans who want to see the game. Instead of having us in one area we are going to be in the home ends. Do Foxes have any sense?
There are quite a few Wolves fans I know of with tickets in the home sections. I hope all goes well!
If we don’t sell all our tickets by Friday night? let Wolves have the rest. I’d love to see as many of them there getting knocked out the playoffs, getting payback for doing us 4-3 a few years ago after us being 3-0 up at half time, not that I’m bitter or anything
Matt, the only reason you think the game might be becoming a sell out is because loads of wolves fans are buying tickets amongst the leicester fans, trust me i’m one of them!
Even if there are 6,000 unsold tickets, we would have to relocate season ticket holders or have Wolves fans amongst home fans…both not possible.
Had Wolves been playing Cov instead of us away last game of the season, they would have been ok, as most fans that go to Cov out number the home fans 2 to 1 anyway. I heard they offered WBA 10,000 ticket for their last home game of the season? But Leicester are better supported by a long long way.