Manchester United among several clubs affected by Microsoft outage

United suffered ticket sales issues for upcoming Premier League matches due to outage.

Friday morning saw an outage of IT with Microsoft Servers crashing. This affected banks and television broadcasters faced issues. Countries such as Australia and the UK suffered the most. Football clubs such as Manchester United were also affected by the global IT outage.

This led the club to halt the sales of tickets for next season. Manchester United confirmed the issue on X (Twitter) and released a statement saying, “Unfortunately, due to a global Microsoft Servers outage which is affecting many systems, including ours, this morning’s ticket release will be postponed until midday.

“The website will also remain unavailable until the issue is resolved. Further updates will be provided here, including any further potential delays.”

Besides United another Premier League club Crystal Palace, suffered a similar situation. While EFL clubs such as Blackburn Rovers, Plymouth Argyle and Preston North End of the Championship also faced the outage.

In a statement, Palace revealed that the match ticket availability for their opening league fixture against Brentford has been pushed back to next week.

The Eagles wrote, “Due to a global issue affecting Microsoft systems, on-sale for Brentford v Crystal Palace tickets has been delayed until Monday (10:00). We are unfortunately unable to process ticket sales either online or over the phone, so please do not call the box office. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.”

In its latest service page, Crowdstrike (a cybersecurity company) additionally recognised the issue. They stated, “CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes connected to the Falcon Sensor that have occurred on Windows hosts.” Basically, they meant issues in the Falcon sensor were the cause of the Windows crashes that have been occurring globally.

However, it was later confirmed that the outage had been fixed. Microsoft servers are back to normal functioning. However, Its crash did have one of the worst repercussions and many working people around the globe came to a standstill.

The positive thing for Manchester United and other clubs who suffered a setback in early ticket sales is that it took only a few hours for things to get back to normal.

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