Ticket Prices

[dannyjo22]

That's all very good in the modern 'I don't give a **** about my customers/fans and I'll charge as much as I can get away with' attitude, so why aren't the German clubs seemingly doing this and care more about the affordability for the fans than the small amount of extra revenue the price hike will give the club?

They might think differently is they were competing in the premiership. In the ideal world all clubs would be run as a business. Players wages capped, a certain transfer and wage budget and huge stadiums where kids get in for a £1 and you can guarantee your future supporters for the future.

But fans in this country demand their clubs spend spend and spend. I can't blame them for trying to get back whatever they can. They get bigger tv deals and they just spend more on players. People should be targeting players wages and transfer fees not what it costs to get in.

They are the only people getting richer with their agents and the Sky sub goes up.

So pointless was the walkout that literally every media outlet in the country and a lot in the US were reporting about it. It's also made FSG have an emergency meeting to rethink the ticket prices.

If they bow to that they are mugs.

Everyone is saying it's such a small amount of the revenue blah blah, yet everyone says the opposite when they are justifying a new ground and why a bigger stadium must be built. Even today in the news story on Evertons takeover:

Former Everton midfielder Peter Reid told BBC Radio 5 Live that the club needed new investment and a new ground.

"We've got a great squad of players and a good manager, but we need to get a new stadium to keep pace with the other clubs in this Premier League," he said. "You need the revenue that generates."

 

[Clipsey]

Average ticket sales for a decent team will bring in anywhere from 2-4 million PER GAME.
So, yes they are very important to revenue, however I think to make things easier they should just have more tiered pricing, surely?
You want a FULL stadium, you want the best fans, you want other teams to hate going to your stadium because the crowd are so behind the home team.
Just look at Liverpool, fans walked out at 2-0 up, end up drawing 2-2.

Not quite the same, but Kid Rock was so mad at ticket prices for his fans, he made every seat in his arena tours become $30, no matter where. Says he still makes the same amount of money.....
Man of the people!

 

[BaZ87]

Tbf, Liverpool are introducing a more tiered pricing structure compared to what we had before. It wasn't long ago that there only 3 or 4 prices separated by just a few £. The club have gradually changed that and the biggest changes are happening now to go along with the increased capacity.

I don't think too many fans are that bothered by there being a few £77 tickets (although not ideal still) - if there are people happy to pay that to sit in the best seats then fair enough. The increased revenue from the £77, £60 odd tickets etc should have been used entirely to reduce other tickets with the total outcome being no increase, at the very least. Instead the club have increased overall prices by such an insignificant amount and tried to hide it with their spin about a handful of free kids tickets and £9 tickets that it's come across more insulting that had they just raised prices by 10% and been clear about it.

 

[Purdy]

As much as I hate the price increases and the iPad photo taking 'fans'.

If prices were cheap the atmosphere at Anfield would still be utter dog ****, so makes it quite hard to care really. The locals are some of the whiniest people there who do nothing to improve the atmosphere and only make a noise to groan. (Or throw abuse at our manager)

Safe standing section is the only way Anfield will ever be half decent on a regular basis again.

Guess my post is pretty unrelated and but the 'We're fans not customers', doesn't really fly when you make **** all noise. Football sucks

 

[JohnnyG]

I pay £880 for my ST which is £46 per game which I don't mind at all, early round cup and CL games are £30 with the later ones around £60, that's a mid-range price band.
The price has been frozen for years now too so I'm not complaining at all.
I'm not sure what plans there will be once the stadium is rebuilt though, I imagine they'll go up then.

As much as I hate the price increases and the iPad photo taking 'fans'.

If prices were cheap the atmosphere at Anfield would still be utter dog ****, so makes it quite hard to care really. The locals are some of the whiniest people there who do nothing to improve the atmosphere and only make a noise to groan. (Or throw abuse at our manager)

Safe standing section is the only way Anfield will ever be half decent on a regular basis again.

Guess my post is pretty unrelated and but the 'We're fans not customers', doesn't really fly when you make **** all noise. Football sucks

You moan about the atmosphere at Anfield but it's the same for the home support at every ground I've been to over the last 5 years or so, the travelling fans almost always outsing the home fans at Stamford Bridge and the Chelsea fans always outsing home fans on away days, that's just the way things are nowadays.

 

[Derek W]

Bayern quote on ticket prices

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35464102

Borussia Dortmund fans threw tennis balls onto the pitch during their German Cup victory over Stuttgart in protest against ticket prices.

So not really much difference between English prices and German ones if the outcome is the same as fans are protesting.

Dannyjo22 makes a good point with this

Football fans want everything, owners that pour money into a club, buy the latest and greatest, hold onto stars, pay the wages required and then they seem to think that should be cheaper?

Unfortunately I can't find the clip on the 5live site where a caller called footballers morons, large parts of the support are thick with nothing exciting in their lives etc etc but this essentially backs it up as well. Fans are buying into top clubs but without the 'rewards' in return. One of the reasons why smaller clubs (in or near PL / SPFL teams) are suffering cos the big teams attract fans because they have the big names but that doesn't automatically mean you're going to get value for money.

As a supporter of lower league football my ST costs £170 and although this year has brought little way of joy (sitting bottom in league 1) I have enjoyed watching my team pit their wits against one of 'the old' big teams when Rangers got thumped down the leagues for financial mismanagement and watching my team reach the quarter finals of the scottish cup for the first time in their history along with reaching the challenge cup final in 2001.

 

[Purdy]

You moan about the atmosphere at Anfield but it's the same for the home support at every ground I've been to over the last 5 years or so, the travelling fans almost always outsing the home fans at Stamford Bridge and the Chelsea fans always outsing home fans on away days, that's just the way things are nowadays.

Yeah exactly and how often to Liverpool fans go on about being different. As unoriginal as it is the 'where is your famous atmosphere' chants are pretty spot on, are home atmosphere feels among the worst at times.

Some home fans seem to still be able to create a good atmosphere. Is it palace who are regularly decent?

 

[JohnnyG]

Palace are very good home and away and I think their ticket prices are about the same as Norwich who's fans are very peaceful.
Last time Wigan came to SB there were about 10 of them and not many more at their home games, I doubt their ticket prices were very high too so whilst ticket prices may be a factor it's not the only factor.

 

[omnomnom]

Well done to the Liverpool fans and various groups. FSG have backed down and frozen prices for two years. They are also still going ahead with the £9 children's tickets.

 

[cm1179]

power to the people
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football..._the_day&ns_source=facebook&ns_linkname=sport

 

[BaZ87]

Shows you what can be achieved if fans were strong enough to take action.

We have to remember this is the result of around 10,000 fans leaving 15 minutes early. Imagine what could happen if fans throughout the country stood up and challenged clubs.

 

[doodah]

Happy result, didn't think it would work. I'm also glad the likes of Pulis speaking his mind, compared to Wenger insisting the match day ticket increase was a nessecity for buying more expensive players!

 

[Purdy]

Nice to be wrong, gj eventually fsg and the fans who organised it all, did that youth allocation exist before? Their them all in the same section and we'd get a good atmosphere

 

[HangTime]

No chance of such a walkout at Arsenal, as barring a horrific injury, football matches last 120mins max.

 

[wildman]

Football in this country is not about the fans.

correct, its about the corporate shills that sell boxes at 5K a head and bend the normal working class supporter over a barrel for a big up the bum gang bang. The fans are just as much to blame for taking their reaming, especially those arsenal fans. They cry like babies about the most expensive tickets, but will never boycott because they know there is a waiting list longer then king dongs Johnson who would take their place in a heartbeat regardless of price.