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The Chelsea Supporters’ Trust has called on the Premier League to investigate connections between the club’s co-owner Todd Boehly and a ticket exchange and resale website.
The Trust has written an open letter to Richard Masters, urging the Premier League chief executive to look into Boehly’s links to Vivid Seats, an American site that allows users outside the UK to buy and sell tickets to sporting events and concerts, often at huge mark-ups.
The 51-year-old American is currently a director and investor in Vivid Seats, which the Premier League lists as an “unauthorised ticket website”. British fans cannot use the site or others like it because reselling football tickets in this way in the UK is illegal.
Vivid Seats: Open letter & @DCMS Consultation
The CST has written an open letter to the #PremierLeague CEO in response to reports connecting Todd Boehly & Vivid Seats.
The CST has also submitted evidence on this issue to the DCMS consultation on the resale of live event tickets pic.twitter.com/kVX50g44ri
— Chelsea Supporters’ Trust⭐️⭐️ (@ChelseaSTrust) March 26, 2025
Many Blues fans have taken to social media to complain about the difficulty for members to purchase tickets to home and away games, while a Chelsea Supporters’ Trust (CST) survey found that only 17% of supporters had confidence in the club to tackle touting and concern was expressed at Boehly’s ties to Vivid Seats, which charges 10% commission, plus a service fee.
“Vivid Seats continues to list Premier League tickets for above face value at significantly inflated rates and our members have continued to indicate that Mr Boehly’s connection with Vivid Seats is a breach of trust and a clear conflict of interest,” a CST spokesperson said.
“Not only does this undermine the efforts of Chelsea FC, the Premier League, and the Metropolitan Police to combat ticket touting, but Vivid Seats contravenes the Chelsea FC ticketing policy, and is explicitly named by the Premier League as a known unauthorised ticket website.
“We believe that now is the time for the Premier League to act swiftly and ensure that a major shareowner of a Premier League club ceases facilitating the sale of tickets for significantly above face value.”
Chelsea have previously denounced ticket holders who sell on their seats for profit.