Attendances

cheets64 · 23 Feb 2012 at 02:38

peterattheboro said:
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.

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

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.

DW Stadium record attendance was in 2008 when 25,133 people watched Wigan Athletic play Manchester United in the title-deciding match of the 2007–08 Premier League season

Sums up Wiganchester

Weebull · 23 Feb 2012 at 06:30

cheets64 said:
EPL teams are not allowed to sell tickets on match day.

Is this actually true? I've only ever known clubs that sell out in the Premiership, but I loved the ability to rock up on the day and buy a ticket when Hull City were in the Championship.

seaviewuk · 23 Feb 2012 at 10:19

Brighton have the restriction of not being allowed to sell tickets at the ground on match days, but can in the satellite club shop in the city centre. Not that it matters as every match this season has been sold out to the home fans in advance. 18,000 season (4,000 on waiting list) ticket holders in our new ground, it will be interesting to see how many renewals there are in season 2, especially as we are increasing capacity by 8,000 (to 30,500) in the close season.

14 years without our own ground and we are lapping it up this year!!!

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.

cheets64 · 23 Feb 2012 at 14:24

Well you can pick them up on match day but never heard of them being sold at the ticket office on match day.