Seat Counters - 2022/23

Greenandblue said:
The Brighton game was pretty much sold out a long time in advance, the only tickets becoming available were returns and mostly just single tickets dotted all around the ground, and only becoming available late in the day, so no real opportunity for anybody to buy some together, and to plan travel. Given the demand, I thought the ground would be heaving, full to the rafters. Surprisingly it wasn't, there were probably more than 1,000 empty seats. No big deal, that's less than 2% of capacity left empty, and the club will say that all seats were sold, some of them sold twice, what more can they do. Attached is a photo of the family stand on 21mins taken from CB3, so at that time it should be at peak capacity, pretty much everyone in. Loads of empties in the family stand, and many of them together. I think the competitive pricing in there, only £100 to £140 for a kid's season ticket, means that people can easily choose to only do the big games, and not bother with a resale when not going. Unfortunately for us our bright blue seats really stick out when even a few are empty, and the family stand is in a very visible part of the ground. (compare to when Arsenal were crap, and lots of supporters not showing up, their swathes of dark red empty seats rarely looked as obvious as when we have a small few...maybe i'm grasping at straws!)

I had been watching the available seats on the City website all week, so I was really surprised to also see a few decent clusters of empty sets in the East Stand level 3. These were not for sale on the City website, but secondary sellers seemed to have loads available, at £100 - £120 per ticket in East stand Level 3 (with no discount for kids). My theory is that the resellers buy a batch from the club, heavily discounted, and then sell them at inflated prices to tourists who don't have memberships etc, and need to book flights and hotels so need the certainty of getting a ticket. They resellers don't care if they have clusters unsold, as they have made a profit anyway on the others, and as far as the club are concerned, the ticket is sold..

We are one of the hottest tickets in world football at the moment, kids want to see Haaland, and rightly so. If it were known that there would be hundreds of empty seats available together at the game on Saturday at a reasonable price, they would easily have been occupied, no question, demand is huge, I know the seats are technically already sold, but we all want them occupied.

The club need to reach out the family stand holders who are not regular attendees and let them know the club can sell their tickets easily, if they know well in advance that they won't be there. I know the ticket exchange works, but we really need to push it harder and more proactively. They need to be more ruthless with the resellers, if you have 't sold by certain deadline you need to let the club sell them instead, with enough time to plan travel. We paid £81 for 2 adult and 3 kids ticket, having bought early and got the membership discount, those 5 would have been about £500 to £600 on Livefootball, crazy prices, we want fans getting there, not getting fleeced.

My view is that if you bought your ticket then it's your own choice, (i) to show up or not (ii) to show up at what time you want, (iii) go early for your half time break, (iv) come back late from your half time, and (v) leave on 80 minutes. While it's your choice, it's not fair to say that it's nobody else's business, it affects the atmosphere for the rest of us. We are privileged to have a great team, fantastic stadium and a wonderful manager, but with that privilege should come some responsibly, always try to get your seat filled, maybe try (if possible) to stay and clap the team off. You don't HAVE to do either, but your fellow blues would appreciate it. Keep the faith, we have some small issues to be ironed out to get the sold seats occupied (and maybe a bigger issue to get them filled at the final whistle), but interest in attending our games had rarely been higher.
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I’m in that picture- my lawyers will be in touch about the charge for my image rights.
 
lancs blue said:
Start of half-term for some schools, families heading away on holiday?
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Slightly off topic but for every game not far from me there seems to a large party of school children from Scotland. Not the same ones, like a different school or football club each week. I’ve not got a problem with it. Just seems a bit odd why they’re always from Scotland. Do they not do the same with local schools?
 
Stephen230 said:
Slightly off topic but for every game not far from me there seems to a large party of school children from Scotland. Not the same ones, like a different school or football club each week. I’ve not got a problem with it. Just seems a bit odd why they’re always from Scotland. Do they not do the same with local schools?
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I go to home games on a supp. club coach and there's usually a couple of those groups in the coach park, quite a few from Ireland too. Maybe we don't have to try too hard with local kids with the rags being crap. ;-)
 
Stephen230 said:
Slightly off topic but for every game not far from me there seems to a large party of school children from Scotland. Not the same ones, like a different school or football club each week. I’ve not got a problem with it. Just seems a bit odd why they’re always from Scotland. Do they not do the same with local schools?
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Yes they do do the same with local schools. I know of two local schools who have had tickets.
 
Eccles Blue said:
Yes they do do the same with local schools. I know of two local schools who have had tickets.
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That’s good to hear. Not that I’ve any problem with them giving Scottish kids a free day out. ( Assuming it’s free ) But a local kid is far more likely to become a long term fan on the back of a good day out.
 
Yes the tickets were free, the school just funded the travel which wasn't too bad for one of the schools as they have their own mini-bus.

Kids really enjoyed it. I was the Chair of Governors at the time and met them outside before the game and they were really excited and asking me if I knew any of the players (the teacher had told them I was a SC holder) and the kids knew me from visits to school and groups I used to have meetings with. A couple of them already had City scarves so a good time was had by all. :-)
 
Stephen230 said:
Slightly off topic but for every game not far from me there seems to a large party of school children from Scotland. Not the same ones, like a different school or football club each week. I’ve not got a problem with it. Just seems a bit odd why they’re always from Scotland. Do they not do the same with local schools?
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Have you watched Scottish football?
 
There is a huge increase in ticket sales. Guaranteed the Sevilla home game Wednesday and the Chelsea carabao cup game the week after would still have 1000s of tickets left for sale same time last year.
Brilliant that they’ve both sold out.
 
A Bolton fan at work is taking his City supporting kids to the Sevilla game.
Another bloke at work is a fair weather Villa fan but will be taking his City mad 9 year old son to the Chelsea match. He was a bit annoyed that he had to pay a lot up front with membership fees but he's already saying that he'll get it back by attending a few more matches and stadium tour. Not everyone is happy with the club's membership strategy but it will turn this guy and his son into semi regular fans going forward.
 
Georgian Maestro said:
A Bolton fan at work is taking his City supporting kids to the Sevilla game.
Another bloke at work is a fair weather Villa fan but will be taking his City mad 9 year old son to the Chelsea match. He was a bit annoyed that he had to pay a lot up front with membership fees but he's already saying that he'll get it back by attending a few more matches and stadium tour. Not everyone is happy with the club's membership strategy but it will turn this guy and his son into semi regular fans going forward.
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This - winning over the next generation - is so important to the future of City. Until recently, most of these kids would have defaulted to United or Liverpool fans.
 
Stephen230 said:
Slightly off topic but for every game not far from me there seems to a large party of school children from Scotland. Not the same ones, like a different school or football club each week. I’ve not got a problem with it. Just seems a bit odd why they’re always from Scotland. Do they not do the same with local schools?
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Outside of the locality, Scotland visitors represent the largest contingent of regulars at home games.

The Club have tapped in to the schools up there a few years back and tickets are sold via them and youth football teams.

Forget Rangers and Celtic, we went after all the other towns and cities.

I go to visit family each year and it's incredible to see how many City shirts you come across.

I was in Pitlochry village back in July and there were four or five local kids in the High Street with the new shirt on.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Outside of the locality, Scotland visitors represent the largest contingent of regulars at home games.

The Club have tapped in to the schools up there a few years back and tickets are sold via them and youth football teams.

Forget Rangers and Celtic, we went after all the other towns and cities.

I go to visit family each year and it's incredible to see how many City shirts you come across.

I was in Pitlochry village back in July and there were four or five local kids in the High Street with the new shirt on.
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That’s interesting. There was a lad sitting next to me recently who kept checking his phone and suddenly said Yes, 1-0! I asked him who he was checking up on and he said Partick Thistle. His mum seemed a bit worried that he was revealing they weren’t dedicated City fans but I assured them they were very welcome to come and see the champions in the flesh. Had a nice chat about Thistle’s crazy David Shrigley designed mascot
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Outside of the locality, Scotland visitors represent the largest contingent of regulars at home games.

The Club have tapped in to the schools up there a few years back and tickets are sold via them and youth football teams.

Forget Rangers and Celtic, we went after all the other towns and cities.

I go to visit family each year and it's incredible to see how many City shirts you come across.

I was in Pitlochry village back in July and there were four or five local kids in the High Street with the new shirt on.
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I think they might've targeted Dunfermline - I see a fair few City shirts being sported by school-age kids. Any older, though, and it's mostly Liverpool shirts for English teams, with a few Chelsea mixed in. No united, strangely enough!
 
It's time to extend the north stand. Forget stupid Dortmund walls just replicate the south stand. It would look awe inspiring.
 
Only went and forgot to sort myself a Chelsea ticket. Any tips on how to master the ticket exchange and get lucky through that?
 
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