Update over Portsmouth ticket allocation for Leasing.com final with Salford City

The Blues are set to request more seats for the final with Salford City on April 5 – as and when they sell out their initial 50,300 ticket quota.

And there is unlikely to be anything stopping the FA giving the green light for more tickets to be given to boost the growing show of force at the home of football.

Salford have taken a 3,000 allocation for the final and segregation will have to be considered, but that is not expected to provide an obstacle to Pompey boosting their number.

The latest update on ticket sales on Tuesday reported more than 42,500 of the initial allocation had already been snapped up.

That was after a whopping 35,000 tickets were purchased by supporters in a matter of hours, after going on sale on Friday.

The rate at which seats are being sold is understood to have slowed from the roaring early pace set, but there appears little doubt the first wave of tickets will go.

That’s with any outstanding allocation set to go on general sale this Friday, with online purchasing from 3pm. Phone sales begin on Saturday with fans able to buy in person from the ticket office next Tuesday.

Selling 50,300 tickets will mean Pompey setting a new record for a one-club show of force at a neutral Wembley.

That number will eclipse the 44,000 sold by Southampton against Carlisle in the 2010 Johnstone’s Paint Trophy final.

The 89,874 attendance for the FA Cup final against Cardiff in 2008 is the largest football attendance at the new Wembley. The 85,201 present for last year’s EFL Trophy final with Sunderland is also a record for the competition.