Cardiff's FA Cup tickets sell out

The Wembley ticket that every Cardiff City devotee wants

Cardiff City have sold all their allocation of 33,000 FA Cup semi-final tickets after fans queued throughout the night to snap up the last ones.

Supporters began queuing at the club at 2200 GMT on Saturday, 10 hours before the ticket office opened on Sunday.

Within three hours the last batch had gone, as a queue of about 1,000 snaked from City's Ninian Park ground.

But there is some hope for ticketless fans, as the club have asked for more from the Football Association.

Until Sunday, tickets could only be bought by some groups of fans, before becoming available to supporters with stubs from a game against Hull City.

Cardiff will play fellow Championship club Barnsley in the semi-final at Wembley next Sunday.

We would like to thank everyone involved for their patience and co-operation in selling 33,000 tickets in seven days Cardiff City

It will be 81 years since the Bluebirds last appeared at Wembley, when the Welsh club became the first and only club so far to take the FA Cup out of England.

The prospect of repeating that achievement has generated huge excitement among supporters in the Welsh capital and in the rest of the club's south Wales heartland.

That meant there were about 1,000 in the queue at Ninian Park well before dawn on Sunday, and that number remained constant throughout the morning.

The clocks went forward by an hour overnight as the UK adjusted to British Summer Time (BST), and the ticket office opened at 0900 BST. Fans who turned up at 0530 BST managed to secure their tickets some five hours later.

It's before dawn, and the long queue snakes outside Ninian Park

The club said the tickets had all gone by midday. The club said they would have more news on Monday on their request to the FA for another allocation.

On the official website, the club said: "Once again, we would like to thank everyone involved for their patience and co-operation in selling 33,000 tickets in seven days".

Tickets had initially gone on sale a week earlier to Ambassadors - fans who bought their season tickets before a certain deadline - other season ticket holders, and then to away travel members.

Holders of Hull stubs were then able to buy one ticket for the Wembley semi-final per stub.

But the club had emphasised that there were no guarantees that Wembley tickets would be available to all Hull stub holders.

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