Attendances

peterattheboro · 22 Feb 2012 at 11:43

So with teams like Wigan, Blackburn, Middlesbrough, Leeds etc having **** poor attendances over the last few seasons, what I can't get my head around is why clubs still charge circa £30 for a ticket. £30 imo is far too much to watch teams play crap football for 90 minutes.

Also when you go to these games, with half empty stadiums there is just zero atmosphere. So why can't clubs reduce the ticket prices on a permanent basis to say £15-£20 and try and raise attendances which may also improve the atmosphere and more fans getting behind their team which can give them a confidence boost.

I can understand paying £30-£60 to watch the likes of Man Utd, Liverpool etc as they fill the stadiums and it's just a case of supply and demand.

When Middlesbrough were relegated I was shocked that ticket prices remained the same to watch worse football in a lower division. Honestly I'd rather pay £35 and get a full weekend in at the BTCC.

That is what I call value for money.

peterattheboro · 22 Feb 2012 at 11:49

Yes but if they reduce the prices, there is every possibilty that they can turn a larger profit due to a larger audience?

peterattheboro · 22 Feb 2012 at 11:59

BaZ87 said:
Clubs have obviously done their calculations and don't believe that a x% price cut will bring in enough extra people to make them as much money as things are.

Also, anything more than a one off special is risky to do midseason. Imagine what Blackburn's season ticket holders will be thinking if half way through the season the club cut prices by 50% for the rest of the season.

True. So why not just offer 30% off season tickets when they go on sale and just get bums on seats. That would be a lot better than having no one at the games.

peterattheboro · 22 Feb 2012 at 23:58

mrbios said:
That's news to me, our last season in league 1 we had a higher average attendance than every club in the championship bar Newcastle, even beating the bottom bunch of prem teams, and apart from the idiot leeds fans that think boycotting matches in the past few weeks in a bid to get rid of bates will ever work our attendance hasn't dropped?

EDIT: looking at the stats, we had a much higher attendance last season than this season and the previous season, this season is a bit of a let down by about 3000 fans on average, but i think that's mostly fueled by the anti bates idiots. This is quite handy: http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/DivisionalAttendance/0,,10794~20107,00.html to be honest though you only have to look at other teams highest attendance record, and so many of them are vs leeds, shows our away support is still in full force. We've been 7 other teams highest attendance opponent, that's pretty impressive.

The average attendance this season for Leeds United is around 23,000. The stadium holds near 38,000 hence why I included them. I wasn't picked on them specifically, just using an example.

J-FRO said:
I've toyed with the idea in my head as to could it work if they sold tickets for the spare seats from 5 minutes before kick off? Say a ticket costs £30 for one of these clubs who are struggling to fill the stadium, those who can afford it and care will generally pay the £30 and still go anyway. Those who are disillusioned or less well off may be inclined to go along if they can get a ticket on the door for £15 although they may miss the first 10 minutes of the game. The main issues would be figuring out how to sell them quickly enough in case there are large queues. I think the principle benefits of this would be some revenue from otherwise empty seats and also the revenue from food/drink etc as well.

Most clubs will sell tickets before kick off apart from those that sell out every week.

peterattheboro · 23 Feb 2012 at 10:44

cheets64 said:
EPL teams are not allowed to sell tickets on match day. £18 a home game is about right for Wigan, Blackburn do the same, imagine paying £900 a year to watch Arsenal at home, then suffer winning nothing for years and their away display. £250-260 Does not seem that bad for flat cap wearing, coal mining, narrow boat lovers.

I used to do it at Boro when they were in the Prem. Also I've bought tickets for Spurs on matchday but that was through the website and collected at the ticket office.