Cork's ticket allocation for All-Ireland SHC semi-final is confirmed

Cork are set to receive an allocation of 17,500 stand tickets for Saturday week’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final with Galway.

The game on July 4, with a throw-in time of 3.30pm, will be the Rebels’ third straight appearance in the last four and the previous two, against Limerick in 2024 and Dublin last year, were sell-out events – the only two examples of a stand-alone hurling semi-final resulting in a full house.

With terrace tickets on general sale, Cork clubs will only receive stand allocations. Whereas every club in the country receives tickets for an All-Ireland final, the semi-final quantities outweigh those of a decider.

Premier senior and senior A hurling and football affiliations will each be given 40 tickets, with 34 for premier intermediate, intermediate A and premier junior outfits.

The allocation for junior A clubs is 30, with 22 each for junior B and junior C. In addition, clubs with players on the panel are to get eight extra stand tickets per player.

For example, Glen Rovers, who have Eoin Downey, Robert Downey and Micheál Mullins on the Cork panel, will be entitled to 64 tickets, with sister football club St Nick’s availing of 34.

Stand tickets are priced at €60 for adults and €55 for OAPs and students with juvenile (U16) tickets €10 – concessions are not available for the Hogan Stand, however.

Each club delegate to Cork County Board receives two tickets outwith the club allocation – in total, 8,768 tickets will be going to clubs.

Cork have 3,500 season-ticket subscribers – they, along with the 2,224 SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh premium-level seat holders and 364 South Stand seat-holders, will all receive tickets too.

Members of the hurling panel receive complimentary tickets with the option to purchase more. Other categories with the facility to buy tickets include the county senior football panel and management, U20 and minor management, All-Ireland senior medallists, sponsors, county officers and staff, divisions and sub-committees, county panel referees, the One Cork Worldwide fundraising body and city and county councillors.

The 2024 semi-final, when Cork ended Limerick’s quest for a fifth straight All-Ireland title, started a sstretch of 14 straight championship games played before sell-out crowds. That sequence ended with Sunday’s quarter-final triumph over Offaly, though the 40,185 attendance was well in excess of the 30,509 at the 2024 quarter-final against Dublin, the last game before the full-house run began.