Manchester United are to appoint a full-time ticket-tout officer to clamp down on those selling thousands of tickets on the black market.
More than 100 tickets have been seized this season from touts operating near Old Trafford and premises being used as distribution points have been identified.
Now United will step up their war on the worst offenders by hiring a ticket touting and compliance officer.
Nearly 2,000 tickets have been recovered over the last season and a half and the club give three-year bans to anyone found reselling seats — which has been illegal since 1994.