Season Tickets - 2024/25

[Edstari]

Not sure if this has been answered before?
A friend and her 16 year old son are “citizen members”. They want to join the season card list. Is there one?
The nearest SC is not taking new members, they live in Milnrow. They did manage FA Cup semi and would like access to more of the bigger games at City but are finding it difficult.
Any ideas I can pass onto her.

Unfortunately they've just missed them going on sale for next season, but a few thousand STs will go on sale for 25/26.
There isn't a waiting list and in recent years they've sold them on points in 21/22 (1000 -> 500 -> 250), sold them with no criteria at all for 22/23, and sold them using a criteria of 15 home prem games attended in the past 2 seasons for 24/25.

Because of the club's inability to decide on the right way to sell STs, I can't really give you perfect advice, but a few thousand STs will go on sale for 25/26 assuming the north stand is finished on time, so if they attend a decent amount of prem home games this coming season and they'll have a chance.

If I remember correctly, there were roughly 6000 in the queue when they went on sale last month, so you're looking at upwards of that number who would attend more than 7.5 home prem games per year and would qualify assuming they use that same criteria next year, so the only advice I can provide is go to as many games as possible

 

[East Level 2]

Maybe it was the sight of the 1894 banner at the Etihad?

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Obviously something has happened for Khalddon to go public on ticket prices.

Without sounding too negative on the subject, it will be interesting to see how City market and price point an extra 8000 seats to fill in the NS/new home end.

It will depend on their intentions for the "home end".
Prices will need to be reasonable to fill the extra seats on a regular basis, but will the club "encourage" movement of our more vociferous fans by increasing prices in the south and east stands close to the away fans?
There are City fans out there who want to watch City, and by that I mean they want to watch City rather than watch City play glamorous opponents, and those are the fans the club needs to target in order to fill an expanded ground.
Those who only become interested when we play Madrid, Bayern, rags, Liverpool and Arsenal can piss off as far as I'm concerned.

 

[East Level 2]

On the subject of Wolves: The club cannot afford to piss off their fanbase as they don't have the tourist trade to take up spare tickets. That's not taking the piss, it's just acknowledging our success has put us in a position where the club can do pretty much as it pleases.
Those at the top making the decisions won't be around to face the flack if we ever return to being ratshit.

 

[MCFC Wirral]

Has it been confirmed that new Seasoncards will be released once the new stand is ready?

 

[Tolmie scores]

It will depend on their intentions for the "home end".
Prices will need to be reasonable to fill the extra seats on a regular basis, but will the club "encourage" movement of our more vociferous fans by increasing prices in the south and east stands close to the away fans?
There are City fans out there who want to watch City, and by that I mean they want to watch City rather than watch City play glamorous opponents, and those are the fans the club needs to target in order to fill an expanded ground.
Those who only become interested when we play Madrid, Bayern, rags, Liverpool and Arsenal can piss off as far as I'm concerned.

you can see how clubs are thinking 'Cat A' games as they were known will be 3 - 4 the price. You can see this built into ST's at an extortionate price or you have an ST without these 'top games' then you can try and compete with the 'tourists for a £200.00 + txt!. American NFL games are now only for corporates or very wealthy - they have far less games of course but with the American cartel here they want that model + games around the world as Warner was going on about. Going to get tougher for normal, local supporters...these 'legacy' fans are just a burden on clubs aside from when we have say Bournemouth at home - ridiculous but it's the future innit!

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Has it been confirmed that new Seasoncards will be released once the new stand is ready?

I don't think so.

 

[Stephen230]

Has it been confirmed that new Seasoncards will be released once the new stand is ready?

No, but it’s a pretty certain assumption that some will be I would have thought.

The question is, how many?

Liverpool only sold 1,000 out of their new 7,000 stand as season tickets.

I’d be quite confident that City will go higher than that. But I wouldn’t like to predict how much higher.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

No, but it’s a pretty certain assumption that some will be I would have thought.

The question is, how many?

Liverpool only sold 1,000 out of their new 7,000 stand as season tickets.

I’d be quite confident that City will go higher than that. But I wouldn’t like to predict how much higher.

I just had a quick look to see if there were any stats for STHs across the PL clubs and it seems most clubs (in 40k+ stadia +Everton) have about 65% to 70% of seats assigned to STHs but there is a lot of guesswork in the numbers as they are all rounded up. This is using 2020 data so probably there is some more recent stuff ...

Team	Capacity	STH	%
Arsenal	60,704	46,000	75.8%
Aston Villa	42,095	30,000	71.3%
Bournemouth	11,364	6,500	57.2%
Brighton	30,750	23,000	74.8%
Burnley	21,944	12,000	54.7%
Chelsea	40,834	28,000	68.6%
Crystal Palace	25,486	17,500	68.7%
Everton	39,414	31,330	79.5%
Leicester	32,261	23,000	71.3%
Liverpool	53,394	27,000	50.6%
Manchester City	55,017	40,000	72.7%
Manchester United	74,879	52,000	69.4%
Newcastle	52,305	35,000	66.9%
Norwich	27,359	21,000	76.8%
Sheffield United	32,125	25,000	77.8%
Southampton	32,384	22,000	67.9%
Tottenham	62,062	42,000	67.7%
Watford	22,200	13,800	62.2%
West Ham	60,000	40,000	66.7%
Wolves	32,050	22,000	68.6%
Avg (all)	808,627	557,130	68.9%
Avg (big stadia)	485,687	331,330	68.2%
@14/04/2020

IF we are at 72.7% I doubt we'll be getting offered that percentage of the new seats.

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

No, but it’s a pretty certain assumption that some will be I would have thought.

The question is, how many?

Liverpool only sold 1,000 out of their new 7,000 stand as season tickets.

I’d be quite confident that City will go higher than that. But I wouldn’t like to predict how much higher.

My guess is that there will be a minimal amount of flexi season tickets available when the NS is complete. Circa 500 on a first come first served basis.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

My guess is that there will be a minimal amount of flexi season tickets available when the NS is complete. Circa 500 on a first come first served basis.

Based on the numbers above I would go with 2500 to 3000.

 

[MCFC Wirral]

I venture in to Liverpool occasionally when they’re home and the city is full to the brim of tourists. I was having breakfast one morning before going to Yorkshire and not one Liverpool shirt had a Scouse accent. I suspect they package it all up and sell per match.

 

[blueparrot]

I venture in to Liverpool occasionally when they’re home and the city is full to the brim of tourists. I was having breakfast one morning before going to Yorkshire and not one Liverpool shirt had a Scouse accent. I suspect they package it all up and sell per match.

Was in Liverpool with my son myself a few weeks ago when they were at home, said the same thing myself all the fans in liverpool shirts had foreign accents and there were loads. My son was saying though he'd heard it was a thing for local liverpool fans not to wear shirts to games.

 

[MCFC Wirral]

Was in Liverpool with my son myself a few weeks ago when they were at home, said the same thing myself all the fans in liverpool shirts had foreign accents and there were loads. My son was saying though he'd heard it was a thing for local liverpool fans not to wear shirts to games.

New season tickets are rare at Anfield. They get passed down families etc. Most of them seem to wear scarves so they can raise them during Gerry & The Pacemakers.

Even in a pub in Wrexham there was a Liverpool flag up.

 

[spacecadet]

Whichever way they dress they're cunts.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

New season tickets are rare at Anfield. They get passed down families etc. Most of them seem to wear scarves so they can raise them during Gerry & The Pacemakers.

Even in a pub in Wrexham there was a Liverpool flag up.

There used to a be dippers flag hanging outside a pub in Ruthin, not sure if it’s still there.

 

[East Level 2]

My guess is that there will be a minimal amount of flexi season tickets available when the NS is complete. Circa 500 on a first come first served basis.

Based on the numbers above I would go with 2500 to 3000.

Can't seeing it being this low. They need to fill the north stand or they'll look somewhat silly.
They could offer fans a swap from other areas into the north stand and then only release a small percentage of the freed tickets, but I think atmosphere in the newly built area will depend on regulars being sat together.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Can't seeing it being this low. They need to fill the north stand or they'll look somewhat silly.
They could offer fans a swap from other areas into the north stand and then only release a small percentage of the freed tickets, but I think atmosphere in the newly built area will depend on regulars being sat together.

I think they'll be aiming to be around the same percentage share as Tottenham so about 43500 in total but who knows. All clubs are under pressure to squeeze as much revenue out of their fan bases now so there will likely be a drive to reduce STH share across all clubs.

 

[blueparrot]

I think they'll be aiming to be around the same percentage share as Tottenham so about 43500 in total but who knows. All clubs are under pressure to squeeze as much revenue out of their fan bases now so there will likely be a drive to reduce STH share across all clubs.

I was hoping for about a 50/50 split leaving about 4000 extra matchday.They do need to keep blocks of matchday ringfenced though and prevent the blocks being split up with future relocations so groups of fans can easilly find match day seats together.

 

[Jazzyblue]

Ticket prices aren’t going to change now. Let’s see what happens when 8000 extra seats are added when the NS expansion is finished. Pure speculation on my behalf, but maybe Khaldoon was eluding to that?

City know they won’t be able to fill all those extra 8000 seats on a regular basis with the current match day ticket prices.

If you read the wording in the APT case against the PL, City are saying they may have to increase price tickets, etc, due to the current APT rules.(which I don’t believe)

City also argue that the rules inhibit City's ability to acquire talent and make it more expensive to run their business, which in turn (also reported by the Times from those documents) might mean City may have to raise ticket prices.(I don’t believe that to is the case or true)

It's right that 'FFP' does put the club under more pressure to increase matchday income though isn't? Though I agree on the extra seats point.

 

[Jazzyblue]

There used to a be dippers flag hanging outside a pub in Ruthin, not sure if it’s still there.

There's loads of Liverpool fans in North Wales full stop. A few Evertonians and City fans though as well.