Most match day tickets are sold out before the season starts mostly to regular match day attenders. If there are tourists at league games, and I don’t think it’s a a big deal, they are probably buying S/C resales not regular match day tickets. You can’t have the team the success and the planned campus we are getting without attracting some tourists, that’s just the way it is and will be.More and more of our match day support is made up of tourists, which is evident in PL and CL games. Our local support has been priced out of those game unless they have a Citizens card and are prepared to pay for an expensive match day ticket. Or if they attend one of the domestic cup games where cheaper tickets are available. Come and buy an affordable ticket for Carabao Cup and the FA Cup games, but we’ll(City) price you out of the CL and PL games.
What has waving a Palestine flag in the air during the City v Arsenal game got to do with supporting City? I’d much rather that ticket went to a local City fan.
Agree with all, EXCEPT, anyone and I mean anyone buying a half and half scarf should be brought onto the pitch at half time and humiliated and the said scarf destroyed.And don’t forget some f those so called tourists and their family and friends will follow city going forwards.
They will buy shirts and scarves (let them buy half as if and halves if they want to!) but it all goes into the club’s coffers at the end of the day
That’s how clubs grow beyond their immediate community, if not there’s no way City could compete on a world stage.
Both sets of fans are vital to a club’s financial success at the end of the day and if people don’t like the idea of tourists there’s always Stockport County…not many tourists there.
Wait til Wembley. You just know it’s going to happen!Agree with all, EXCEPT, anyone and I mean anyone buying a half and half scarf should be brought onto the pitch at half time and humiliated and the said scarf destroyed.
Anyone doing it for that game should be shot!Wait til Wembley. You just know it’s going to happen!
Fair play!Agree with all, EXCEPT, anyone and I mean anyone buying a half and half scarf should be brought onto the pitch at half time and humiliated and the said scarf destroyed.
You say they contribute just as muchEvery top sports club in the world is full of tourists, they are welcomed because at the end of the day they contribute just as much to the bottom line as the ultra fan.
If you want to be a top club, stay a top club, get used to tourists and thank them for their contribution to making our club even greater.
I think there is a mixture of fans. Yes some “tourists” spend a lot more but the late train back to Leeds after a Champs League game is full of students who probably don’t have a pot to piss in, after they’d paid for their tickets.You say they contribute just as much
I would say financially they contribute more.
I agree so called tourist supporters are welcome and necessary for a top club
I must be the clubs ultimate nightmare
I arrive just before kickoff watch game and go home and don’t spend a penny in the club shop or stadium
Whilst you see tourist supporters loaded down with City merchandise
Plus the tourist attracts more fans from his/her own country
But you'd be there if we were playing the Dog and Hammer on a wet Wednesday in January. They wouldn't.You say they contribute just as much
I would say financially they contribute more.
I agree so called tourist supporters are welcome and necessary for a top club
I must be the clubs ultimate nightmare
I arrive just before kickoff watch game and go home and don’t spend a penny in the club shop or stadium
Whilst you see tourist supporters loaded down with City merchandise
Plus the tourist attracts more fans from his/her own country
I don’t get the half and half scarves, and I know tourists will buy them, but a half and half wearer isn’t necessarily a tourist. Iv’e seen families of City fans with a child with one, maybe the childs first game souvenir, but even fans that look like regulars buying them, maybe they collect them.Agree with all, EXCEPT, anyone and I mean anyone buying a half and half scarf should be brought onto the pitch at half time and humiliated and the said scarf destroyed.
If Blues struggle for home tickets, IMHO it’s madness not to join your local Supporters Club if you have a reliable one near you. Not for the myth of the Away allocations but for members sharing cheaper tickets amongst each other when they can’t get to games.
In the last 2 days I’ve sorted a Madrid at home and a pair of tickets for Leeds at home for a Dad and his lad. All for below FV.
Of course the Madrid issue on the Ckub and the increased demand we have generally.If large numbers of people join a supporters club wouldn’t it make getting tickets much more difficult?
10 tickets being shared around 400 people instead of 200 for instance.
would that not annoy lots of supporters clubs as well? Hundreds of new members who are only there to get tickets
I think that idea is just a quick fix that doesn’t solve the problem and pushes it into the background. The Madrid game for example - that’s all on the club they just had to change the sales criteria.
Depends where in the stadium you are, age and on what membership level. Can be anywhere from £299 to £1525.Btw can anyone tell me how much does a season ticket cost?
Some? You mean one? You are right but they don’t exactly make it easy. The lady behind me stopped going as printing wasn’t an option for her. One of the chaps I go with is one of a handful who were persistent enough to get a season card after a tedious exchange of emails, phone calls and visit to the club.Oh dear. Think you’re done. Some of your points factually incorrect eg you can have a ST if you’ve no smart phone.
Thanks for sharing. Confirms some suspicions I’ve had.Now I'm no longer involved in City Matters, I'm going to go public with this. I know, because I saw the board minutes, that back in 2017, the subject of ticket prices was raised round this time of year, when planning for the following season. The board agreed that fans had been asked to absorb a number of price rises over the previous seasons and felt season ticket prices were high enough and shouldn't be increased.
Of course they were increased and I can guess who made that decision, in defiance of the board. Our CEO's view (and I've had this confirmed by a third party) is that while we're enjoying the success we're enjoying them we should expect to pay more to watch it.
I can also tell you that the same person was planning for a European Super League for a number of years prior to the botched announcement a couple of years ago. Had the cartel clubs not made such a mess of things, we'd have been balls deep in that enterprise. It wasn't the prospect of an ESL that frightened us off but the rather clueless attempt at implementing it.
We have a CEO who has £, $ and € signs where his iris and cornea should be.