Football Prices Review

[phil in cornwall]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19842397

Interesting to see that a season ticket to watch Reading costs less than one to watch Bournemouth and is the same amount as Southend.

And a season ticket at Aldershot is only £30 less than Reading.

[Super_horns]

Clearly your marketing guys and girs have got some sense but most clubs go for the money and the fans still pay such prices.

The other week it would have cost me £10 to go and see the mighty St Albans!

[Hoop Blah]

I wonder how consistent the club responses were. Our cheapest price is that for an existing STH renewing back in April. I can't remember what our cheapest new ST price was, something like £450/495?

It also shows how the club lost the gamble on releasing those renewal prices early, at a time they were trying to get renewals for Championship football with the outside chance of getting into and then winning the play-offs.

The teams great performances over the last couple of months really stung then club on STs!

[Stuka]

But fair play to Reading. They come across as reasonable in that survey.

[Stuboo]

But fair play to Reading. They come across as reasonable in that survey.

Yes, and I think the BBC got it wrong too. Our cheapest adult league match ticket is £32, not £37.

And a massive LOL at Arsenal. Their fans pay more than everyone else and have won nothing for seven years. And they accept it!

[Jerry St Clair]

Some interesting stuff there, and some interesting models. Bradford's season tickets are dirt cheap (£199-299) but their cheapest match day tickets is the most expensive in Div 2 except for Southend.

The cheapest match day tickets in Div 2 are now nudging £20. I recall Reading fans going absolutely batshit 10 years ago when Ipswich wanted £20 for the away end. I remember thinking at the time that £20 was a massive psychological barrier for me to pay to watch football.

[UpThePrem]

Will be interesting to see what the early ST renewal prices will be if we are in a relegation place. Championship prices or Prem prices??

[SPARTA]

Some interesting stuff there, and some interesting models. Bradford's season tickets are dirt cheap (£199-299) but their cheapest match day tickets is the most expensive in Div 2 except for Southend.

The cheapest match day tickets in Div 2 are now nudging £20. I recall Reading fans going absolutely batshit 10 years ago when Ipswich wanted £20 for the away end. I remember thinking at the time that £20 was a massive psychological barrier for me to pay to watch football.

Agreed, and now I wince at £50 at Chelsea and Arsenal fans pay up to £126 for a ticket. Football is NOT worth either ticket price!

[Jackson Corner]

Man City come out of that very well. Fair play to the owners £257 to watch the best team in England. Quite why Dave Wheelan keeps spunking away millions on Wigan when they can't fill the ground at £250 a season is beyond me.

[Croydon Royal]

The other week it would have cost me £10 to go and see the mighty St Albans!

IMO this is a big problem. It was even £8 for me to go and watch my local club Whyteleafe in the Ryman South last year. I'm sure I'm not alone in fancying to go along to a lower league match when Reading aren't playing or I have a free Saturday afternoon/Tuesday evening, but it's going to take a lot for me to pay over £20 to watch two League Two teams that I don't really care about, or £10/£12 to watch a Conference South side. I applaud a lot of the lower league clubs for their innovative initiatives that they roll out, but they need to realise that a lot of fans will already be spending £30 a week going to watch their main Premier League/Championship side, so many won't justify £10 ticket just to 'pop along' to a local match on the Tuesday night too.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Heard recently somewhere that football attendance prices were inline with inflation until around 1991. If they'd kept in line, apparantly we'd be paying around £10-£12 for the professional game. Now, remind me, what happened around 1991 to change all this.....

[Alexander Litvinenko]

Heard recently somewhere that football attendance prices were inline with inflation until around 1991. If they'd kept in line, apparantly we'd be paying around £10-£12 for the professional game. Now, remind me, what happened around 1991 to change all this.....

The great big irony is that when the Taylor Report talks about all-seater stadia it says

"Clubs may well wish to charge somewhat more for seats than for standing but it should be possible to plan a price structure which suits the cheapest seats to the pockets of those presently paying to stand."

Guess which of the two proposals (all-seater stadia or affordable ticket pricing) got enshrined into law and which got forgotten about?

[larry1971]

Will be interesting to see what the early ST renewal prices will be if we are in a relegation place. Championship prices or Prem prices??

it'll be more interesting to see what happens to ticket prices if we stay up because if we do the plans for the stadium re-development will go ahead and that's bound to mean an increase in ticket prices to cover the cost of building work.