Charlton will have up to 4200 tickets available for the trip to St Andrews though Birmingham have initially issued the Addicks with 2800 seats.

These will go on sale on Thursday to VIP season ticket holders and season ticket holders who are also members of Valley Gold.

In a change from recent seasons, for this game at least, regular away travellers are not included in the initial proritisation. There will be more than enough tickets to satisfy demands for the opening game but it will be interesting to see if regular travellers get proirity for the more popular games later in the season.