Donegal's official All-Ireland final ticket allocation lands at 13,748

Donegal’s ticket allocation for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC final clash with Kerry has officially been recorded at 13,748.

The 40 affiliated clubs within the county have now received their membership orders, although a number of clubs have since taken to social media to reveal that they haven’t been able to satisfy all adult requests.

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DonegalLive understands that some clubs have been left short because of internal membership oversights, where they failed to move over their paid LGFA and Camogie memberships to the ‘Foireann’ logging system.

And because of that, the metric for Donegal’s adult membership allocation was the Foireann system reading.

Donegal’s season ticket membership of 1,230 will also be met, independent of that 13,748 figure.

Croke Park’s official capacity reads at 82,000 with 10,000 of that usually earmarked for corporate and premium on All-Ireland final day.

12,000 tickets are also put aside for the likes of Croke Park residents, staff, referees, press, overseas groups etc.

The remaining, and largest, portion of tickets go to supporters throughout the various county boards, with the competing counties receiving the most significant allocations there.

Those are then filtered down to their clubs and their registered adult club members.

Every single GAA club across the country is entitled to All-Ireland final tickets, hurling and football.

For example, for last year’s football final between Galway and Armagh, Donegal clubs received in and around five to six tickets each.

And that slice of the pie is estimated to cumulatively account for around 20,000 tickets.

Meanwhile, Gardaí have warned supporters to be mindful of ticket scams ahead of the weekend’s decider.

And they have reminded supporters that SafeTix scanning will be in place at the Croke Park turnstiles and that screenshots of e-tickets will not allow you to gain access to GAA headquarters.

In the lead-in to the weekend, Jim McGuinness has warned his players they’re either facing into the best day of their lives or, if the result goes the other way, the worst. There will be no in-between.

“There's nothing better than winning an All-Ireland and there's nothing worse than losing it,” he told DonegalLive.

It's probably the best day of your life and the worst day of your life and that's the reality. I've been on both sides of the fence and I suppose trying to get that message across to the players is very, very important.

“But you have to live those moments as well and it's difficult. When you're 18 or 19 years of age and Anthony Molloy is telling you to make the most of this because it'll fly in, you're thinking, ‘It won't really fly in, I'm in a good place here.’

“And all of a sudden you're retired and you haven't got the sense to take the information and use it maximally, if you like.

“So we'll be imparting that to the players, that it's a brilliant day but also there's a football game to be played. And if you don't win that game, it's tough. And nobody has the right to win any game, but I do think that if you go out and you give it everything you've got and you fall short, at least you've done that.

“I think where regret falls sometimes is if you're coming down the road in the bus and you feel there was a bit left in the tank, I think that's when it becomes really, really hard.

“We know what we're going in against in Kerry and we know they're just brilliant in these situations and they expect to win in these situations.

“Challenging that and battling that will be very, very difficult but we have to give it our best shot to be fair to the work that they've put in all year. If we get that, I think I'll be happy”.

Donegal will hold their All-Ireland final banquet on Sunday evening at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Golden Lane.

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