Ruhr wrote:
VOOMER wrote:
squirtyflower wrote:
he's clearly wrong, but football in Germany is a lot cheaper than in England, much to their credit
Subsidies from the German government mean ticket prices average out at just £17, and away fans receive free rail travel free rail travel to away matches?
the clubs have contracts with the local public transport company. That is valid for a certain region. So all of the City fans could travel from Düsseldorf to Gelsenkirchen for free with their match ticket.
This is not paid by the government, it is paid by the clubs. Borussia Dortmund paid 18 Euros for each of their 49.000 season tickets alone to the transport company (that was three years ago, maybe it´s even higher now).
Bayern fans for example have to pay bus or train tickets on their own as Bayern hadn´t signed such a contract.
and for what reason the government should pay for football tickets?
The government does not pay for the football tickets of the other clubs - they have agreements with the local public transport companies and the clubs pay for the transportation. That price includes that some of the fans already have their own month tickets of the public transport company, that some go by car or bus...
When 50 % of the fans would need a ticket that costs an average of 8 Euro, the club probably pays about 3 EUR for each ticket to the public transport agency.
Why doesn't Bayern München have such an agreement? Whereas Frankfurt, Dortmund, Hamburg etc. fill their stadium mostly with fans from their city or local surroundings, a lot of the Munich fans travel by bus or car out of many regions of Germany. The fans from inside Munich usually have their own month tickets of the public transport. The fans from outside do not profit from such an agreement.
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