Fiorentina vs AC Milan 9/25 - Soccer Match Questions

I'm not sure if there will be a lot of tickets left if you wait until the day of the game. AC Milan attracts a lot of fans.

In any case these are the sales points where tickets would be sold:
http://en.violachannel.tv/club-box-office.html

If you want to pre-purchase online you'd so so in the TicketOne.it site, which is the official ticket vendor for Fiorentina:
http://www.ticketone.it/biglietti.html?affiliate=ITT&kuid=464959&action=tickets&doc=artistPages/tickets&fun=artist&language=en

Prices range from €25 in the curves, to €250 in the VIP Tribuna seats. Maratona stands are a good compromise with great midfield seats, at €50. I'd go for those.

The stadium is easy to reach, from Piazza San Marco you can take no. 17 or 20. Also you can take no. 10, 11, 19, 25, and they won't take you too far from the stadium.
Here is the ATAF map:
http://www.ataf.net/System/files/mappe/ESEC%20mappa110x100.pdf

But if you like to walk, just walk to the Campo di Marte station and take the aerial walkway above the tracks to the stadium. 25 min walk from your hotel and you are there.

Roberto,

Thank you so much for this great information. I will likely buy the 50 euro tickets in the Maratona stands in advance. I read somewhere that passports are required when attending the game...Is this true? Are there any other things that I will need to bring to the game or things that are not allowed into the game? For example, in the US, many stadiums allow fans to bring food into the games; however alcohol from the outside is prohibited.

Thanks

You can also buy tickets at the Fiorentina store on the upper level of the Central Market and probably at the new Fiorentina store on Borgo San Lorenzo (street that goes from Baptistry to San Lorenzo church). I believe the store in the Central Market closes around 19:00 or 20:00, but the store on Borgo San Lorenzo may stay open a bit later. Both locations are a fairly short walk from the Accademia area.

I read somewhere that passports are required when attending the game...Is this true?

I am looking at my Dec 14 game tickets from San Siro stadium (Milan). My passport name is printed on the ticket and I did have to show my passport when I bought the ticket. Don't remember if they checked it when I entered the stadium, but you had to have it in case they did.

If Fiorentina is anything like AC home games, there should be quite a few food trailers and trucks outside the stadium for pregame snacks. So get there a little early.

Go Rossoneri!

Purchasing tickets ahead of time is probably a good policy to have a good choice of seats. If it was another team, I'd tell you to buy them on the spot, but a team like AC Milan is likely to attract big crowds, although some sections will still be available so early in the season.

Yes, you will need your passport or whatever ID is printed in your ticket. Unlike in the old days, when a stadium ticket was like a ball game ticket in the US, in Italy they now sell tickets with your name and ID number and it's not transferable. It is basically like an airplane ticket.

They made that change several years ago for security reasons (some violent fans get put in a 'black list' and are banned from the stadium for months or even for ever, just like terrorists in the 'no fly list') and also to get rid of the scalpers. In the old days scalpers (often very organized groups of scalpers) would buy lots of tickets before hand, and then try to resell them in the street at a much higher price. No longer. You need to put the person name and ID on the ticket now.

@ Sam:

FORZA VIOLA!!!
(go violet purple!)

Viola is fiorentina's nickname, due to the color of the jersey

I don't know if they allow cans or glass inside nowadays. Anything that can be used to harm others is probably banned. You can buy alcohol inside at one of the vendors.

Italy they now sell tickets with your name and ID number and it's not
transferable.

The tickets are transferable. All the tickets I have purchased for Serie A matches have either been through scalpers or ticket agencies and none had my name on it. If you go this route the seller will give you a letter that says in italian something like "ticket has been transferred to the current holder". But on when I arrived at the stadium they never asked for the letter I just flashed my US passport (they never opened it) and it was good enough. Their main concern is that rival fans don't sit next to each other, showing your passport seems to satisfy that.