Why don't the club subsidise away tickets?

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Re: Why don't the club subsidise away tickets?

by STAR Liaison » 21 Aug 2015 12:39

Winchester Royal It's an interesting balance because the market is both captive and relatively small, so squeezing that market seems counterintuitive when you could grow the market with attractive pricing, and then look to capitalise on it once it was at a sufficient level. No use suffocating it and having 400 die hards at every away game paying £50 a ticket, when you could have 1500 paying £20.


The danger is you might get only 450 paying £20. Price isn't the only motivator and is likely to be less effective when the team isn't doing well. The ticket after all is only a % of your overall match day spend.

There is a fantastic amount of performance analytics in the game (Prozone etc) but I'm not aware of much shared / published analysis on ticket pricing even though there should be plenty of data available by now.

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Re: Why don't the club subsidise away tickets?

by STAR Liaison » 21 Aug 2015 16:30

By the way the FSF are encouraging a campaign day on the subject - 3/4 October (we're at home natch).

More details and a step-by-step to making a protest at http://fsf.org.uk/blog/view/Get-involve ... th-October.

Volunteers welcome.

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Re: Why don't the club subsidise away tickets?

by Lower West » 21 Aug 2015 20:13

STAR Liaison The danger is you might get only 450 paying £20. Price isn't the only motivator and is likely to be less effective when the team isn't doing well. The ticket after all is only a % of your overall match day spend.



I walk across the road regularly. Swindon charge £25 to away fans. Football at lower levels is struggling. With fewer and fewer away fans attending. Without fans the game as we know it will simply implode.

Looking ahead, if Reading were promoted again. How would people feel about paying £64 for an away ticket? That's the madness of the premiership. Football clubs are being run as businesses now by overseas investors. They are no longer part of the community.

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Re: Why don't the club subsidise away tickets?

by Green » 24 Aug 2015 15:32

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STAR Liaison The danger is you might get only 450 paying £20. Price isn't the only motivator and is likely to be less effective when the team isn't doing well. The ticket after all is only a % of your overall match day spend.



I walk across the road regularly. Swindon charge £25 to away fans. Football at lower levels is struggling. With fewer and fewer away fans attending. Without fans the game as we know it will simply implode.

Looking ahead, if Reading were promoted again. How would people feel about paying £64 for an away ticket? That's the madness of the premiership. Football clubs are being run as businesses now by overseas investors. They are no longer part of the community.

They have been for at least a decade now and the implosion you predict hasn't happened yet.

What sort of timescales are we looking at?

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Re: Why don't the club subsidise away tickets?

by Forbury Lion » 26 Aug 2015 16:34

Maybe ticket pricing varies according to the level of policing required at the games?


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