£199 for this classed “Corporate Hospitality”

Hartford said:
City phoned me and offered this for corperate hospitality for the Liverpool game.. Meet at the academy stadium get a pie & pint and a seat on the half way line in the East Stand, for only £199... How can they justify the price of that, it basically works out at £190 for a match ticket..
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City have been doing this for along time, not just since the oil takeover, but for many years before that as well. We just have to accept that football at this level has to be entirely commercially driven. The reality is that ticket receipts only account for a small amount of the revenue. The rest is made up of TV money, sponsorship and then Hospitality. The bigger City get, the hospitality prices will continue to increase - based purely on demand. The bigger european clubs have been exploiting this for years and years. I went to a Barcelona Champions league match about 7 years ago (in the group stage) against ..............(can't remember!) and they were charging approx £350 which got you into a rather bland room with no seats/chairs, still had to buy any food and drink and a seat up in the gods.............
 
bluesimon said:
City have been doing this for along time, not just since the oil takeover, but for many years before that as well. We just have to accept that football at this level has to be entirely commercially driven. The reality is that ticket receipts only account for a small amount of the revenue. The rest is made up of TV money, sponsorship and then Hospitality. The bigger City get, the hospitality prices will continue to increase - based purely on demand. The bigger european clubs have been exploiting this for years and years. I went to a Barcelona Champions league match about 7 years ago (in the group stage) against ..............(can't remember!) and they were charging approx £350 which got you into a rather bland room with no seats/chairs, still had to buy any food and drink and a seat up in the gods.............
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I believe if it wasn't for FFP ticket prices would be lower. City have to achieve as high revenues as possible to enable their growth. We can only spend what we earn.
Our matchday revenues are well below United, Arsenal, Chelsea and probably Liverpool. If UEFA and the Premier League cared about fans they would insist that some money from TV deals was ringfenced to subsidise match tickets for everyone. It should be built into the contract.
 
I've never been in hospitality but recognise that it is for the benifit of companys or businesses not individual fans, but if anybody has been and paid £199, is it for just the one pie and pint or is it a drink what you want bar? Makes it a lot more attractive to a company who can get tax allowances if it is the latter.
 
when did the east stand level 1 become corporate ?. ive always thought that was where ordinary fans went. we now have the entire tier 2 of the ground, most of the colin bell stand and the top tiers of both, expensive compared to other areas. we literally only have the south stand and the family stand where its affordable. they are turning the entire ground into a corporate bowel. even in the family stand the club keep tickets back for staff and schools as well. - one of the reasons why the same sets of seats of always empty.

i agree with a previous poster they literally only care about money now and rinsing us for as much as they can. people say about supply and demand , but when i look over a lot of the corporate seating is empty in the league. its just pure greed. I'm gonna bet a lot of these corporate seats will be filled with liverpool fans as well instead of actual city fans, just like in all the other big games we've had.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
I believe if it wasn't for FFP ticket prices would be lower. City have to achieve as high revenues as possible to enable their growth. We can only spend what we earn.
Our matchday revenues are well below United, Arsenal, Chelsea and probably Liverpool. If UEFA and the Premier League cared about fans they would insist that some money from TV deals was ringfenced to subsidise match tickets for everyone. It should be built into the contract.
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you blame ffp/ the league, but in reality the club could easily lower/freeze prices if it wanted to - most other clubs in the league have. they could use the tv revenue to do that. you say we have to keeping growing ticket revenues ? so what then? we just keep increasing prices indefinitely until we have no more locals or actual city fans attending ?. I seem to be posting on a lot of threads like this - I think its main thing i hate about football now. its just all about money all the time now and clubs just don't give a shit anymore about fans. its great seeing us win things and have great players, but i feel sometimes disconnected from the club and i know others who do as well.

btw obviously its part of football and i have to accept that. i just wish there was more consideration for fans.
 
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To be fair it's about £200 in total for a pie and a pint inside the stadium so I'd snap their hands off.
 
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