ATHENS, Ga. – The University of Georgia 2020 football ticket plan, which reflects a Sanford Stadium capacity of 20-25%, was announced Wednesday by the UGA Athletic Association in documents sent to season ticket holders.
Key points in the documents include:
— Top priority is maintaining safe and healthy campus atmosphere.
— Provide as many season ticket holders as possible the opportunity to attend, at minimum, one of the four home games.
–Specifics of the ticket distribution plan.
–Donors who have to opt out for this year, will not be
penalized and will keep their seat location for 2021.
— Away game tickets will not be available except for the Georgia-Florida game in Jacksonville.
Following is detailed information on the ticketing plan as well as answers to the most frequently asked questions in the FAQ link.
2020 UGA Football Modified Ticket Allocation Process
The 2020 football season has been altered to a 10-game conference-only schedule including 4 home games vs Auburn, Tennessee, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt operating at a reduced capacity for each game. As a result, we are offering single game tickets to provide as many opportunities to current Hartman Fund donors who are season ticket holders, the ability to enjoy Georgia Football home games this fall.
Should you decide to not attend games this fall, your status as a season ticket holder will remain unchanged, and there will be an opportunity for refunds on previously paid Hartman Fund contributions, season tickets, and/or seatback purchases. You will be eligible to renew your previously established season ticket locations for the 2021 season regardless of your ticket buying decision for the modified 2020 season.
Single tickets will cost $150/ticket per-game. This includes a $75 ticket price and a $75 contribution requirement. These costs will be deducted from any previously paid 2020 football season ticket payments and Hartman Fund contributions. All tickets allocated will include a seatback on each seat to help facilitate social distancing and enhance the experience for all attendees. All tickets will be delivered via mobile delivery. Ticket holders will be required to download their ticket(s) onto their smartphone for scanned entry on gameday. Masks will be required to be worn when entering Sanford Stadium and while moving throughout the concourse.
The number of games in which you are eligible to qualify for will be based on your 2020 Hartman Fund annual giving level and/or involvement in the Magill Society. All donors who opt-in will be prompted to fill out an application to request a 4-ticket block to each and every game they would want to attend. In order to maximize capacity, the socially distanced model only allots for blocks of 4 seats. All 4 seats must be purchased by the same account.
Upon completion of the individual game ticket application process, the UGA Ticket Office will be allocating tickets to each individual game based on cumulative TGBC priority points and availability. Ticket allocations for the 2020 modified football season will differ from one’s existing seat location, and are subject to change on a game-by-game basis based on demand, priority and availability. Seat allocations will be socially distanced throughout Sanford Stadium in the 100, 200, 300 and 600 levels. Requesting tickets does not guarantee assignment.
UGAAA will provide refund opportunities for 2020 Hartman Fund contributions, football season tickets and/or seatback costs before the end of the calendar year. You will have the ability to convert any of these balances to a charitable contribution benefiting the COVID-19 UGA Athletics Fund. In return, you will receive triple priority points (3 priority points per $1 converted) and a gift receipt for tax filing purposes. Any refunded Hartman Fund contributions will be deducted from your cumulative TGBC priority point total.
Season ticket payments and/or Hartman Fund contributions are not eligible to be rolled over to the 2021 season. For more information about the modified season and ticket request process, visit our FAQ page here.
We ask that you please indicate your intentions for the 2020 Georgia Football home season below no later than Wednesday, August 26th, 2020 @ 5pm. Those who opt-in will be prompted to login to your online account to submit your individual game ticket requests, whereas those who wish to opt-out will be directed to an online form to indicate how you’d like to handle your previously paid season ticket payments, Hartman Fund contributions, and/or seatback purchases.
If a response is not received by August 26th you will automatically be opted-out of the single game ticket request process, and contacted at a later date about your account balance. Should you have any questions or need assistance completing your request, please call (706) 542-1231 or email gatickets@sports.uga.edu.
The following are supplemental comments from J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Greg McGarity and senior deputy athletic director Josh Brooks as follow-up to stadium capacity and ticket distribution.
“We don’t know yet. To practice social distancing, that’s not really conducive to the Dawg Walk, as we know it today. It’s really the only way our team can get into the stadium now, so I’m sure that will be modified in some degree. We just haven’t zeroed in on those plans for when we start in October.”
On the level of risk playing this fall presents…
“We’re not even out of August yet. We’ve got plenty of time, through the whole month of September to evaluate things. We just need to be able to pivot if necessary, but we’ve got a long time before we have our first home game….We feel like the way we’ve mapped out the stadium, we can maintain social distancing and still abide by the CDC guidelines to keep people as safe as possible. Again, people can opt out. People can elect to come to our games, so those who do come certainly would have a level of risk as they move towards the stadium. Again, we’re thinking with the numbers we will have, [attendance] will be like a rainy G-Day; that may be what the crowd looks like. You’ve got a stadium of 90 thousand, and you’re populating it with only 20-25 percent of that, so the stadium is going to look sporadic for sure.”
“That has yet to be determined how the bands, I know the Medical Advisory task force is providing some guidance to the athletic directors, as we move forward. That has yet to be determined as far as how band and cheerleaders would function this year.”
On whether there is a point in September where UGA has to make the decision whether or not to play…
“I really don’t know. We have AD meetings almost every day now, on Zoom. We learn different things every day. I don’t think there is a drop-dead date—we don’t have one designated is, ‘We have to make a decision by this day,’ because we don’t have to right now. But I just think we look at the information daily and listen to what our other peer institutions are doing, as well as the Big 12 and the ACC, the AAC and everybody else that is playing, and so to keep tabs on everyone else. I just think it is too early to put a drop-dead date. I think it would have to be the week of the game at the latest, but we will just wait and see what develops on a daily basis.”
On what the PPE plan/safety and sanitation measures will look like in Sanford Stadium…
“That’s going to be a big part of our operation this year. We’re going to have hand sanitizer stations everywhere across the stadium. All of our staff will be really masked-up, all of the concession workers will have face-shields, masks, gloves. That is very important to think about all of those things, and follow all the CDC guidelines as you talk about concessions, restrooms, ingress, egress. That was what kind of gave us confidence to move forward with this plan knowing that with a crowd of this size, the operations at the concessions and restrooms will be easy. Ingress and egress will be easy. We can manage that—like Greg [McGarity] said, ‘A crowd of around 20,000 in a stadium that can seat 92,000 makes it more manageable all around. I feel really good about our planning. We are going to be deep-cleaning. There are going to be a custodian assigned to every single restroom that will be constantly wiping down touch points. We are going to disinfect all of the restrooms the day of the game, all common areas. I feel really good about the plan. It is going to take—we’re still working through it. The execution on the day of is going to be very important, but I feel very good about our staff just from what I have seen so far and how we have managed all of our athletics facilities these last few months gives me great confidence that we can do the same thing at Sanford [Stadium].”
On the ways UGA has consulted at the state and other levels regarding the safest model to a football season…
“We have consulted with local officials, worked with—we have a group here on campus, the [Position Management and Classification] group that has evaluated all the campus operations, I have met with that group. I meet with campus officials, the normal game operations group that we meet with: Steve Harris and Jimmy Williamson, to review our plan and get a second set of eyes. We also talk to our peers throughout the state, throughout the country. You would be surprised how much at even rival [schools], how much we will work together to talk through these things because this is not a thing about competitive advantage, this is about keeping people safe and maximizing our opportunity. We weren’t shying away from any idea that we could find, anywhere. We have worked with schools across the country, a lot of officials here—especially on campus.”
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