Seasoncard Renewals | Slight Price Increase

[Centurions]

They value gold and SS3 were both £299, but the VG stayed that price and SS3 now £350.

Yeah, I had an inkling I'd mixed something up as I posted but couldn't remember what exactly.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

It's a well known fact we have 30,000 or more season tickets he quoted the 20,000 who had not renewed not me.

We currently have 36k, excluding those who deferred. We've never had more than 40k.

 

[bladdered]

We currently have 36k, excluding those who deferred. We've never had more than 40k.

Surprised by that. I thought we had 40K from club/media reports over the last few years.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Surprised by that. I thought we had 40K from club/media reports over the last few years.

We did, near as dammit. About 2.5k deferred and they've not always replaced season card holders who haven't renewed one-for-one.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

We have 30,000 plus season ticket holders now and you think we lost another 20,000. We have never had 50,000 plus season ticket holders.

All clubs have seats on sites mate and that's because we have a good team with good players. Viagogo wasn't interested in city vs walsall

What I said was “from those who were seasoncard holders in the first year at the Etihad”. I didn’t mean that we once had 50k and now have 30k, I mean that we’ve lost 20k of those original Etihad over the years.

Those who’ve dropped away have been replaced, but it’s always core supporters we lose. Like so many of my friends and family who nearly all of them have dropped away due to price rises, all of them just the same kind of blues as me.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

What I said was “from those who were seasoncard holders in the first year at the Etihad”. I didn’t mean that we once had 50k and now have 30k, I mean that we’ve lost 20k of those original Etihad over the years.

Those who’ve dropped away have been replaced, but it’s always core supporters we lose. Like so many of my friends and family who nearly all of them have dropped away due to price rises, all of them just the same kind of blues as me.

10,000 of them were gone after that Pearce season.

 

[jrb]

It's a well known fact we have 30,000 or more season tickets he quoted the 20,000 who had not renewed not me.

Is it?

30,000 or more? That’s a bit vague isn’t it?

He, who?

So you’re plagiarising another persons possible season ticket numbers?

So ‘you’ don’t know the a actual amount of season tickets, do you?

As far I know, maybe other forum members know different, the club has never been number specific about the actual amount of season ticket holders at City in any one season.

 

[East Level 2]

As I’m sure you know, we don’t operate on an equal footing when it comes to press coverage.

A United fan I know for example, swore blind that I was chatting shit that they never opened whole sections of the ground for some of their Europa League games. He genuinely believed that as he’d seen nothing whatsoever about it in the press. Whereas every empty seat at City seems to warrant a 10 page pull out.

Surely he'd have seen the empty seats during the games, unless his seat is in a lower bit of the GPC stand?

 

[mancityscot]

Really in two minds about renewing. I'm lucky enough that my seat is one of the cheaper seats up in SS3 so the monthly payments are affordable. However its more a question of how many games i'm actually going to be able to afford to travel to!

I deferred this year, and last game i went to was in 2019. Just had a look at rough train prices now from Edinburgh, and you're now looking at minimum £120 return on an average weekend. On the other hand if i was to drive, following that price hike, it's got to be close to £100 there and back.

Ahhh dilemma!

 

[jrb]

Really in two minds about renewing. I'm lucky enough that my seat is one of the cheaper seats up in SS3 so the monthly payments are affordable. However its more a question of how many games i'm actually going to be able to afford to travel to!

I deferred this year, and last game i went to was in 2019. Just had a look at rough train prices now from Edinburgh, and you're now looking at minimum £120 return on an average weekend. On the other hand if i was to drive, following that price hike, it's got to be close to £100 there and back.

Ahhh dilemma!

You've hit the nail on the head Scot. It's not just a season ticket and match day ticket price rise, it's an everything to do with supporting City price rise.

Yet the odd City fan thinks it's great because their season ticket has only gone up by a small amount.(and they probably live local)

What about all the City fans like Scot who travel from all over the country to home games. Petrol, Diesel, Train travel, Coach travel, Food, Drink, Hotel stays, etc costs have all gone through the roof.

Anyway. To lighten the mood.

Some ideas for cheaper season tickets.

The arrive late season ticket. The club will refund you for every minute you've missed of the match due to the queues outside the ground.

The stay on the concourse season ticket. Get a free season ticket and just stay on the concourse for the whole match drinking £4.50 pints of frothy piss.

The leave early season ticket. Only pay for 80 minutes of football with a guarantee of beating the traffic and getting home quicker.

 

[blue44]

Anyway. To lighten the mood.

Some ideas for cheaper season tickets.

The arrive late seat season ticket. The club will refund you for every minute you've missed of the match due to the queues outside the ground.

The stay on the concourse season ticket. Get a free season ticket and just stay on the concourse for the whole match drinking £4.50 pints of frothy piss.

The leave early season ticket. Only pay for 80 minutes of football with a guarantee of beating the traffic and getting home quicker.

I detect sarcasm !

 

[Magicpole]

What is the average price of a ST at City.

 

[Corky]

What is the average price of a ST at City.

The median category in £722.5, or £772.5 with Platinum. There are 40 categories advertised so 695/750 are the actual prices.

 

[franksinatra]

Really in two minds about renewing. I'm lucky enough that my seat is one of the cheaper seats up in SS3 so the monthly payments are affordable. However its more a question of how many games i'm actually going to be able to afford to travel to!

I deferred this year, and last game i went to was in 2019. Just had a look at rough train prices now from Edinburgh, and you're now looking at minimum £120 return on an average weekend. On the other hand if i was to drive, following that price hike, it's got to be close to £100 there and back.

Ahhh dilemma!

Yeah its a tough one. I have a season ticket in SSL3 and similarly do a 500 mile trip. With fuel prices, matches moved to midweek, even Sunday games at 4:30 I have missed a significant number of games this year and my ticket rarely sells on the exchange.

 

[Northerndave]

Yeah its a tough one. I have a season ticket in SSL3 and similarly do a 500 mile trip. With fuel prices, matches moved to midweek, even Sunday games at 4:30 I have missed a significant number of games this year and my ticket rarely sells on the exchange.

Did City not try a change this year, might have just been for the Liverpool game though. Any ticket listed would be definitely be sold, I think City were purchasing them. Makes sense as they can charge a fortune (£600 for an EL3 tickets and a nosebag prematch at Vermillion).

 

[franksinatra]

Did City not try a change this year, might have just been for the Liverpool game though. Any ticket listed would be definitely be sold, I think City were purchasing them. Makes sense as they can charge a fortune (£600 for an EL3 tickets and a nosebag prematch at

Did City not try a change this year, might have just been for the Liverpool game though. Any ticket listed would be definitely be sold, I think City were purchasing them. Makes sense as they can charge a fortune (£600 for an EL3 tickets and a nosebag prematch at Vermillion).

No, I think my ticket has sold once, bizarrely for the Crystal Palace match. I think for the bigger games that is a good idea but I doubt the club would risk being burned financially for games where the demand isn’t there.

More Aldi than Gucci bags in level 3

 

[Corky]

Did City not try a change this year, might have just been for the Liverpool game though. Any ticket listed would be definitely be sold, I think City were purchasing them. Makes sense as they can charge a fortune (£600 for an EL3 tickets and a nosebag prematch at Vermillion).

That was a "trial" for one game. If they had done it for the Brighton game they would be bankrupt. 70 on the exchange unsold in just one block (318).

 

[paulchapo]

Yeah its a tough one. I have a season ticket in SSL3 and similarly do a 500 mile trip. With fuel prices, matches moved to midweek, even Sunday games at 4:30 I have missed a significant number of games this year and my ticket rarely sells on the exchange.

Tough call. For five years in the eighties I travelled to games from Dover in Kent. It meant setting off at 7am or earlier for home games and often not getting home until almost midnight. Those were the days before all the live games and streams and we weren't very good so we were rarely on the TV either. If you didn't go you missed the game. I also missed games due to my work schedule and the seat exchange didn't exist. It wasn't really worth it financially but I kept it going, but I was younger and dafter then. I probably wouldn't do it now.

The seat exchange is an odd one. As we have thousands waiting for a season ticket and you'd guess attract more tourist fans now you'd think your ticket would be snapped up but it's often not the case.

 

[Jazzyblue]

Season ticket holders who didn’t attend (or failed to list tickets for resale) for 10 or more Prem games are being contacted by the Club’s admin at the end of the season. Those without a proper explanation might have season cards withdrawn or be given a final warning.

I think the focus is more on persuading fans in this category to switch to match day membership etc. I would just stop these people from renewing but that’s me.

I'm hoping to get season tickets for my two boys in the next window. For me it's quite special for them to have the experience of being matchgoing Blues, especially at a time, when they are older men, I'm convinced will be looked back on in a similar way that people look back on the late sixties and early seventies now.

I know having a season ticket at a young age will bond them to the club for life and it wasn't something I could've dreamed of as a kid growing up near Maine Road tbh. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't troubled by the thought that we won't make all the games. Not through not wanting to, but if you're a young family a match is a full day out, which just isn't always doable with weekend working and the kids' commitments, even if you live within a few miles of the ground.

Now, at the moment for a dad and two sons to happily see City play a bottom of the table side it costs about £100 a game with memberships, closer to £150 when mum comes too. You might only be able to see ten of the 19 home games tops, but at those prices it becomes far more economical to buy season tickets in an area of the ground where kids' seasoncards are reasonably priced and go when you can.

That potentially leaves a few empty seats when you can't make it, which no-one wants, but surely the underlying cause is that matchday tickets are too expensive for non-season ticket holding fans to go regularly, if not religiously, on an ad hoc basis. Of course, the responsible - and sensible - thing to do is relist your tickets when you can't go, but there's no guarantee that those tickets will sell to someone else if it's an unglamorous fixture.

For me, any attempt to crack down on no-shows has to go with a push for more affordable matchday tickets to acknowledge the fact there are many fans who want to go regularly but won't make every match. After all, it's often families - most likely where one person buys the tickets for everyone - who are really excited for the 'unglamorous' fixtures and will form the next wave of lifelong local, generational fans.

 

[M18CTID]

completely agree. For games like Madrid we can find the tourists to fill the stadium. For lots of other games we really struggle to find replacement fans.

cup games, champions league group games, quite a few prem games if season ticket holders don’t go we often don’t sell out. The last couple of trips to Wembley being a great example of that. Liverpool in a semi final we couldn’t sell out and we were giving tickets to local schools and groups…

I want fans to take a stand and protest if possible, but Part of me thinks let them do it, just so there are more empty seats and the atmosphere will be worse. Maybe they’ll then realise the mistake they’ve made.

Agree with a lot of what you've said but we often sell out early round FA Cup games as that's one area where the club get the pricing right - loads of local families who can't afford season tickets and match day prices for PL games tend to snap those tickets up. We actually sold more for the Liverpool semi than I expected, given the much publicised issues around that game. Funnily enough, although Liverpool are the miles better side these days I reckon if that semi had been against United then we'd have sold out no problem. Fact of the matter is that even though they're currently dogshit, games against United are still a bigger draw for City fans than any other opposition.