Individual-game tickets for Manchester City FC vs. Chelsea FC on Saturday, May 25, at Yankee stadium to go on sale to general public on Thursday, April 25 at 10:00 a.m.
Today it was announced that individual-game tickets for the Manchester City FC vs. Chelsea FC match on Saturday, May 25, at Yankee Stadium will go on sale to the general public on Thursday, April 25 beginning at 10:00 a.m. at www.yankees.com/soccer and www.ticketmaster.com.
Bundle packages that include tickets to the Manchester City-Chelsea match and the June 11 friendly at Yankee Stadium between the national teams of Spain and Ireland will continue to be available at www.yankees.com/soccer to fans who would like to purchase tickets to both events.
Kickoff time for the May 25 match between English Premier League teams Manchester City FC and Chelsea FC is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.
Manchester City FC clinched the 2011-12 EPL title in dramatic fashion on the last day of the season with two goals in extra-time. The club has won three domestic league titles (also 1936-37 and '67-68), five FA cups (1904, '34, '56, '69, 2011) and one European Cup Winners' Cup (1970) since its founding in 1894. This season the club has reached its 10th FA Cup Final and will face Wigan Athletic at Wembley Stadium on May 11.
Chelsea FC is the reigning champion of Europe, having won their first Champions League title last May by defeating Bayern Munich on penalty kicks. Since its founding in 1905, the London-based team has won four domestic league titles (1954-55, 2004-05, '05-06 and '09-10) and seven FA Cups (1970, '97, 2000, '07, '09, '10, '12).
For updates and further details, including suite opportunities, please visit www.yankees.com/soccer or follow @yankeesevents on Twitter.
Yankees full- and partial-season ticket licensees, Yankees Universe members, Yankees Group Leaders and Yankees.com subscribers will have the opportunity to take part in a special ticket pre-on-sale on Wednesday, April 24. To become a Yankees.com subscriber and have access to pre-on-sale availability, please visit www.yankees.com/subscribe.
The contests will mark the third and fourth soccer matches at the current Yankee Stadium. The first took place on July 22, 2012, with Chelsea FC and Paris Saint-Germain playing to a 1-1 draw in front of 38,202 fans. On August 8, 2012, Real Madrid defeated A.C. Milan, 5-1, before a sellout crowd of 49,474 as Cristiano Ronaldo scored two goals.
The current Yankee Stadium carries on the great soccer tradition of the original Yankee Stadium, which hosted some of the most famous teams in world soccer, including Manchester United, Real Madrid, Tottenham Hotspur, Barcelona, A.C. Milan, Juventus, Napoli, Celtic, Benfica and Sparta Prague, along with the national teams of England, Israel, Italy and the United States. Pele, who many consider the greatest player of all time, called Yankee Stadium home in 1976, when he played for the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League.