The Arsenal Supporters’ Trust have urged supporters of other clubs to return their FA Cup Final tickets so more Gunners and Hull fans can attend the Wembley showpiece.

Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis yesterday questioned the Football Association’s decision to hand the two finalists just 25,000 tickets each. A further 20,000 tickets will go to volunteers through the ‘football family’, including county FAs, local clubs, charities, the 92 professional clubs, 134 full-member clubs and all teams who reached the third round.

Although the FA insist this distribution is the same approach used in every final since the new Wembley opened in 2007, Gazidis claimed the “balance in the FA’s allocation system is not right”.

The Gunners took more than 49,000 fans to their semi-final after Wigan returned some of their unwanted tickets and an AST spokesman said: “Arsenal are right to speak out against the FA’s Cup final allocations. To give just 50,000 tickets to the two competing clubs shows disregard to the fans who have followed their team.

“The FA were happy to take Arsenal fans’ money at the semi-final stage but now it is the final those same fans are being turned away in favour of corporate sales and football insiders. Many of these tickets will then make their way on to the black market.

“The AST calls on other clubs to return any allocation they have so they can be sold to fans of the teams involved. Ivan Gazidis sits on high-powered FA Committees, we urge him to keep an interest in this issue and work inside the FA to get it corrected for future years so fans don’t continue to miss out or get stung by touts.”

Arsenal plan to show the final on big screens at Emirates Stadium.