Tickets to a Football Match in London area

It's really tricky to get tickets for the Premier League clubs. They're very popular and tickets are hard to come by.

If you can be flexible about dates, my local team, Leyton Orient play Peterborough at home on the 1st April. I'm not a big football fan, but I've spoken to others who support Leyton Orient and they're quite a family - friendly club and a nice smaller stadium.

https://www.eticketing.co.uk/leytonorient

On Friday 29th March Millwall are at home to West Bromwich Albion. Less family - friendly, but you'll get to see a real "slice of life" at a Millwall game.

https://www.millwallfc.co.uk/matches/fixtures/

I can see tickets available for both these games from here in the UK.

It's getting a bit late to secure tickets for a lot of clubs. Your best bet is to look at the league tables (forget the Premier League, highly unlikely you'll secure a ticket) and see who are mid table or lower as attendance is likely to be lower as some fans become a bit disenchanted by their team's progress. Teams that are at the top of the league and have a chance of promotion are likely to be sold out for the rest of the season as is the case with my local team Portsmouth, they're sold out to capacity at 25,000 whereas some of the clubs lower down the table are only mustering an average of 3,000 to 4,000.

BTW it's football not futball.

There are three Premier League games in London on those dates - Chelsea v Burnley and Tottenham Hotspurs v Luton Town on 30/3 and West Ham United v Tottenham Hotspurs on 2/4. Getting one regular ticket to any of these games is difficult, getting two together virtually impossible. There may be options for hospitality packages, but these will probably be eye-wateringly expensive.

As Gerry says access to games in the EFL, the league below the Premier League is much easier and arguably the atmosphere is better as well. But games in the EFL are scheduled to happen on Good Friday (29/3) and Easter Monday (1/4) and not your exact dates. If these dates are OK then the best option on Good Friday is Leyton Orient v Peterborough and on Easter Monday Charlton Athletic v Stevenage. I'd recommend the latter for two reasons. One is that Orient's ground is quite small, it's a holiday date and Peterborough are near the top of the division and will bring plenty of fans, so it could possibly be difficult to get in. Secondly Charlton's ground is very close to Greenwich so a visit there can be easily combined with a visit to Greenwich's many tourist sites.

The Premier League, especially in London, is so vastly oversubscribed that I'm inclined to say that unless you go the hospitality route there's no point in trying to get tickets by legitimate means, the odds are so stacked against you getting a ticket in the general lottery as a first time visitor. I suspect the vast majority of tourists who go to individual matches get them from touts.

It also doesn't help that that weekend is Easter Weekend, when most leagues are playing Friday 29th and Monday 1st, so if you're wedded to those two dates your options are limited to pretty much the PL only.

It may be more comfortable and certainly cheaper to find a pub near your hotel which attracts a swarm of football followers. Enjoy the match on TV with them. Not the same as being there, but with authentic spirit nonetheless. Your hotel reception staff probably knows a good one.
Availability of broadcasts in general seems to be more limited than in North America. I'm not sure how, or why, but bet it's all because of business. The beer, however, is your best friend.

It's definitely about business! When you're watching football in a pub, you'll notice a little beer glass graphic in the bottom corner. Pubs can't show games on regular cable TV. They need to buy a special subscription, which I assume is very expensive.

A pub that shows football will usually have a little chalkboard outside with the games coming up. Not every pub will be set up to show football, and some may be rowdier than others, so you have to be prepared for that if you're unaccustomed to a loud pub.

Sky charge fees based on rateable value I have seen one case and I dare say not the lowest of £20,000

Late to the thread (hope you managed to get tickets!) but for anyone visiting in the future, I'd echo the top comment about trying for a Championship (this is the name of the second division, below the Premier League) or League One (3rd division) tickets. Not only are tickets for Premier League teams generally impossible to find unless you know someone, but the matchday experience is similar at a lot of lower-league teams for a fraction of the price.

For teams like Leyton Orient and Millwall, I've been able to buy directly from their website which also avoids touting, which is illegal in the UK.

The Championship ,I think is still the 4 th best supported league in Europe.
My poor Owls have been in the relegation places all season but it looks like will will take 7,000 to our next away game.

Richard - that’s presumably at Ewood Park? I’ll be there, looking for revenge after the refereeing at Hillsborough!

Yes its against the Rovers.
We also have had some mind blowing ref decisions this season lets hope Sundays ref guy doesnt CHICKEN out of any close calls.
Wednesday have had a few good days at Ewood.
A thumping 4-2 in a live FA Cup tie .
And way back ,79-80 a night match we won 2-1 with a huge following. Blackburn ,Wednesday and Grimsby getting promotion