Season Tickets - 2024/25

[Stephen230]

Can anybody direct me as to how to add details of a new credit card, step by step? I was able to remove the details of the previous credit card (which had been stolen, in the meantime), but it says, unhelpfully, please go to the relevant tab to add the new card. Where is the “relevant tab” and under what rubric? I know, I know, I'd expect it to be at Your Account, but the window simply will not allow me to fill in the new information. Without which, I cannot renew my season card.
Thanks for any help…

Changing payment card for cup scheme and other individual tickets is straight forward enough.

I don’t think you can update direct debit details online. You’ll need to call.

Although losing a card won’t change your actual bank details will it? The account no. won’t change.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

My memory says if you go through the renew season card and get to the payment stage, if you click on your old card a box comes up to add a new card

Cheers.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

And I applaud you but my point was the way things are going if kids don’t get in the door now they may never get it unless they pay a huge amount later, they don’t want people with season tickets they want day trippers spending £80 a ticket and £200 in the shops. Where have I said give up your ticket? My point was someone with a young family is been priced out and they don’t get them back, if prices continue to rise as they have. This isn’t like a 20 odd years ago when there were seats available at reasonable prices or no waiting list for a season ticket, if continue in the same vain it will be getting near £100 a ticket per game if you don’t have a season ticket. People find other uses for their money but I’m sure there will always be the glory hunters in years to come just look at old Trafford.

Tickets were expensive under Franny Lee if you didn’t have a season card (relative to young people’s incomes). It’s always been a choice of giving up something else to be able to go to the match for as long as I can remember. Obviously, we have some better off fans where this is less of an issue.

Going to the game is a choice. Maybe, the away games are more of an addiction and that’s why we see Blues willing to scratch each other’s eyes out on here for a dippers or rags away. Going to home games will be close to an addiction for some but less so. For example, I’ve read repeatedly on here how the atmosphere in South Stand L1 has suffered because the nasty City have put better bars in there.

My biggest gripe this week has been peole trying to dissuade others from going to the FA Cup semi final. If Blues can go then go. If not don’t.

This forum has been great but there has been the occasional double standards. Some may remember a campaign for Blues in Colin Bell L1 to give up their season cards because they were being moved for the Tunnel Club. The leaders of the campaign were back for the next season but the poor sods who had given up their season cards weren’t. Sometimes, we need to be careful what we wish for.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Tickets were expensive under Franny Lee if you didn’t have a season card (relative to young people’s incomes). It’s always been a choice of giving up something else to be able to go to the match for as long as I can remember. Obviously, we have some better off fans where this is less of an issue.

Going to the game is a choice. Maybe, the away games are more of an addiction and that’s why we see Blues willing to scratch each other’s eyes out on here for a dippers or rags away. Going to home games will be close to an addiction for some but less so. For example, I’ve read repeatedly on here how the atmosphere in South Stand L1 has suffered because the nasty City have put better bars in there.

My biggest gripe this week has been peole trying to dissuade others from going to the Ada Cup semi final. If Blues can go then go. If not don’t.

This forum has been great but there has been the occasional double standards. Some may remember a campaign for Blues in Colin Bell L1 to give up their season cards because they were being moved for the Tunnel Club. The leaders of the campaign were back for the next season but the poor sods who had given up their season cards weren’t. Sometimes, we need to be careful what we wish for.

Well, I go a long way back. But I do remember cycling in from Hazel Grove to Maine Rd (and back obviously) to avoid the bus fare, because I just didn't have it. Used to love that ride, actually. I was lean and very fit as a teenager, so it didn't do me any harm whatsoever. Then I think it was a tanner to leave my bike in one of the gardens (back yards, really, around the stadium, not a blade of grass in them!) looked after by the old ladies. Then 2/6d through the schoolboys entrance. Not a lot to see Franny, Nelly, Buzzer and the King. It was the great event of the week. But it was as much as I had. Obviously, when you get older, and you've got responsibilities, maybe a flat or house to pay off, maybe a child in tow, you have to rethink it.
It's a curious situation, really. On the one hand, I don't think matches work out expensive, really, if you're under eighteen, or on a pension. (I understand that it is, precisely, a lot more if you're in work and have the obligations I've just mentioned above). But on the other hand, the club really don't need to raise the price of the season card year on year, even if it's not by very much, and I don't quite understand why they do it, unless it's on principle. The times are long gone when the revenue from us going in through the gate financed most of the club's needs. It would be just such a nice gesture for the club to put a moratorium on season card prices for three years or so. For those fans who went through decades and decades of football. Sometimes when it was utter dross.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

I can’t match your cycling but I walked from Stretford to Maine Road and back several times when funds were tight. It was fun walking through Moss Side estates during the drug wars!

City could have shown more restraint on season ticket prices. Putting 4 stewards on every East Stand entrance to check people’s age was very wasteful and made me wonder where else savings could be made. I know the players won’t take a pay cut but that’s where the bulk of the expenditure is.

City are under a certain amount of pressure to show increases in match day revenue though. We are accused of cheering when out match day revenue for the season is £50mil behind some of our main rivals. It’s also very difficult to increase prices if you’ve had no increase for 3 years but the Club could certainly do more. I think they could find other ways to recognise long service as I’ve posted before.

I would have preferred there to be no season card increase. That said, when I can’t afford it I just don’t go.

 

[Edghill OG]

I can’t match your cycling but I walked from Stretford to Maine Road and back several times when funds were tight. It was fun walking through Moss Side estates during the drug wars!

City could have shown more restraint on season ticket prices. Putting 4 stewards on every East Stand entrance to check people’s age was very wasteful and made me wonder where else savings could be made. I know the players won’t take a pay cut but that’s where the bulk of the expenditure is.

City are under a certain amount of pressure to show increases in match day revenue though. We are accused of cheering when out match day revenue for the season is £50mil behind some of our main rivals. It’s also very difficult to increase prices if you’ve had no increase for 3 years but the Club could certainly do more. I think they could find other ways to recognise long service as I’ve posted before.

I would have preferred there to be no season card increase. That said, when I can’t afford it I just don’t go.

I think we've all made sacrifices at some stage. I recall having to pay for my own tickets as a child from pot washing in the pub when I was a teenager. I think Eccles misunderstood what Blue Maverick was getting at. Nobody was knocking her parenting. Instances like mine are unlikely to occur now as tickets have become that expensive. I'm sure I've seen people say that child's tickets were £40 for some games? Dread to think of how many pots I'd have to have washed to make that back in the day.

Those saying 'when I couldn't afford to go, I didn't' isn't really comparable to now. Going back a few years it was fairly easy to pick up where you left off. Take a season or two off etc. People are aware if they do the same now they're probably never going to get it back again. It's totally different! They've probably already sacrificed more than they should, but it's a huge part of people's lives and it eats away at them their days of going could be gone forever.

 

[barney*]

Tickets were expensive under Franny Lee if you didn’t have a season card (relative to young people’s incomes). It’s always been a choice of giving up something else to be able to go to the match for as long as I can remember. Obviously, we have some better off fans where this is less of an issue.

Going to the game is a choice. Maybe, the away games are more of an addiction and that’s why we see Blues willing to scratch each other’s eyes out on here for a dippers or rags away. Going to home games will be close to an addiction for some but less so. For example, I’ve read repeatedly on here how the atmosphere in South Stand L1 has suffered because the nasty City have put better bars in there.

My biggest gripe this week has been peole trying to dissuade others from going to the Ada Cup semi final. If Blues can go then go. If not don’t.

This forum has been great but there has been the occasional double standards. Some may remember a campaign for Blues in Colin Bell L1 to give up their season cards because they were being moved for the Tunnel Club. The leaders of the campaign were back for the next season but the poor sods who had given up their season cards weren’t. Sometimes, we need to be careful what we wish for.

Looking back the matchday tickets prices under Franny Lee were relatively inexpensive and easily affordable to most blues. I've just dug out an old programme from 1995/96 season, the best adult seat in the house cost £17 for the Premier League game against Newcastle Utd back 1996 with the cheapest junior tickets coming in at £5. Taking inflation into account if tickets had kept pace, the best adult ticket in the house for this season for a matchday ticket would be £44 and the cheapest matchday ticket for a junior would be £13. The club unfortunately are really pricing out the next generation of matching going blues.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Looking back the matchday tickets prices under Franny Lee were relatively inexpensive and easily affordable to most blues. I've just dug out an old programme from 1995/96 season, the best adult seat in the house cost £17 for the Premier League game against Newcastle Utd back 1996 with the cheapest junior tickets coming in at £5. Taking inflation into account if tickets had kept pace, the best adult ticket in the house for this season for a matchday ticket would be £44 and the cheapest matchday ticket for a junior would be £13. The club unfortunately are really pricing out the next generation of matching going blues.

I suppose — I can only suppose — that the club's reasoning (or the suits at the club who determine these things) consider football to now be a consumable product. And the product being offered up at City is the best available on the planet.
And that was never the case before. Not even in the great days of 1968.
Needless to say, we as supporters of twenty, thirty, forty and even fifty years standing (and then beyond, but that's for the real FOCs, I'm only a junior FOC) don't see it like that. City is something between our favourite decades-long soap opera, and a full-blown religion. It is not — ever — a product.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Looking back the matchday tickets prices under Franny Lee were relatively inexpensive and easily affordable to most blues. I've just dug out an old programme from 1995/96 season, the best adult seat in the house cost £17 for the Premier League game against Newcastle Utd back 1996 with the cheapest junior tickets coming in at £5. Taking inflation into account if tickets had kept pace, the best adult ticket in the house for this season for a matchday ticket would be £44 and the cheapest matchday ticket for a junior would be £13. The club unfortunately are really pricing out the next generation of matching going blues.

I'll raise you on that. Or rather, lower you. Look at this (pay special attention to the price):

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Changing payment card for cup scheme and other individual tickets is straight forward enough.

I don’t think you can update direct debit details online. You’ll need to call.

Although losing a card won’t change your actual bank details will it? The account no. won’t change.

I don't, unfortunately, have a U.K. account. Thus I have to pay up front, the whole sum.

 

[MrCheeseGrater]

Assuming these prices are similar to what it will cost to attend all 19 games on Flexi Gold, (I'm cautious of the 'Prices shown are illustrative only' meaning the true price at the end of the season could end up being far higher than this), it seems the price difference between a normal Gold ST and a Flexi ST are very similar when you take away the £150 membership fee. Basically shows that the membership fee itself is just a cash grab, they must know there are Matchday Members like myself who are desperate enough for an ST to pay it.

 

[Corky]

Assuming these prices are similar to what it will cost to attend all 19 games on Flexi Gold, (I'm cautious of the 'Prices shown are illustrative only' meaning the true price at the end of the season could end up being far higher than this), it seems the price difference between a normal Gold ST and a Flexi ST are very similar when you take away the £150 membership fee. Basically shows that the membership fee itself is just a cash grab, they must know there are Matchday Members like myself who are desperate enough for an ST to pay it.View attachment 111415

From the example prices the flexi gold is around the SC price /19 per game plus £75 or £150.

A £760 ST would be £550 for 10 games on average, and £910 for 19. That is going off the example alone.

 

[Really_here]

interesting

 

[117 M34]

From the example prices the flexi gold is around the SC price /19 per game plus £75 or £150.

A £760 ST would be £550 for 10 games on average, and £910 for 19. That is going off the example alone.

If the club are trying to sell a product, you'd think they would give all the information out in advance so people can make an informed decision.
If the ticket cost will be 1/19 of season ticket price, it's not that bad a deal.
If it's full price tickets, it's terrible.
But as the club haven't given the information, nobody knows.
I can see a lot of kicking off down the line once people have bought them because people will have interpretated it differently.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Looking back the matchday tickets prices under Franny Lee were relatively inexpensive and easily affordable to most blues. I've just dug out an old programme from 1995/96 season, the best adult seat in the house cost £17 for the Premier League game against Newcastle Utd back 1996 with the cheapest junior tickets coming in at £5. Taking inflation into account if tickets had kept pace, the best adult ticket in the house for this season for a matchday ticket would be £44 and the cheapest matchday ticket for a junior would be £13. The club unfortunately are really pricing out the next generation of matching going blues.

Maybe so but I remember having to pay out £30 per ticket for the top tier of the new Kippax stand for a bore draw against West Brom. They were the only tickets available. Before then I recall r kid paying £12 for the Kippax that was approximately half the dole money at the time. Maybe that was a year or 2 after Franny..

Its a very long time since match ticket were cheap if you didn’t have a season card. We also won fook all in those days so not really comparable with watching the world champs.

 

[ancoats]

interesting

The biggest problem with City and Swales as chairman was he wanted to poke his nose too much into the football side of things, If you watch the City documentary by Granada he was always there telling Big Mal this and that should be playing or we should be signing this player.

I think every manager Under Swales was a dead man walking, Only Tony Book would stick up with the shit and then Swales stabbed him in the back to bring Big Mal back and demoted Book to coach and Big Mal as manager

 

[blueparrot]

If the club are trying to sell a product, you'd think they would give all the information out in advance so people can make an informed decision.
If the ticket cost will be 1/19 of season ticket price, it's not that bad a deal.
If it's full price tickets, it's terrible.
But as the club haven't given the information, nobody knows.
I can see a lot of kicking off down the line once people have bought them because people will have interpretated it differently.

They have given the prices for one stand,and if you attend all 19 games so it’s a reasonable assumption to say the maths will work out
the same for all areas. East stand level 3 is £705 for 19 games plus £150, not sure how that compares to a S/C.

 

[Really_here]

The biggest problem with City and Swales as chairman was he wanted to poke his nose too much into the football side of things, If you watch the City documentary by Granada he was always there telling Big Mal this and that should be playing or we should be signing this player.

I think every manager Under Swales was a dead man walking, Only Tony Book would stick up with the shit and then Swales stabbed him in the back to bring Big Mal back and demoted Book to coach and Big Mal as manager

He always struck me as one of those people who always knows best regardless of the topic.

 

[i kne albert davy]

I'll raise you on that. Or rather, lower you. Look at this (pay special attention to the price):

You must have been minted mine was £3.50 behind the goal :-)

 

[MrCheeseGrater]

They have given the prices for one stand,and if you attend all 19 games so it’s a reasonable assumption to say the maths will work out
the same for all areas. East stand level 3 is £705 for 19 games plus £150, not sure how that compares to a S/C.

They have given example prices for the stand, but also said that the prices are illustrative only, it's not clear how close to those figures it will actually end up being to attend that amount of games. What's to stop them deciding half way through the season to up the Flexi prices each game to make the total price far more than this 'illustrative' price. There would be nothing anyone on the Flexi could do apart from skip games if the individual match prices became too much. This lack of clear information makes it very difficult to plan costs for the season, it could end up being a gamble.