Liverpool shut down 145,000 ticket accounts in touting crackdown

Liverpool Football Club has taken significant action to combat ticket touting, including shutting down 145,000 ticket accounts and handing out a record 1,114 lifetime bans last season. The crackdown follows the discovery of mass manipulation of ticket software and the use of burner phones by touts to avoid detection. These efforts are part of a broader initiative by Premier League clubs to tackle the industrial-scale black market in football tickets, with measures including social media group shutdowns, targeted checks on match days, and new preventive technologies like multi-factor authentication.