Seat Counters - 2024/25

flapjack said:
Does anyone know why we have took the extra allocation, if sales are slow?
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It’s not an extra allocation. Each team is allocated half of the top and bottom tier which is a total around 37k. The FA keep several thousand of these to sell themselves to fans of each club through their own routes. The ones which aren’t taken get given back to the club to sell.

This is why the allocation numbers vary for every Wembley game but ultimately we always have half the stadium.
 
Seats available on the planner:
  • Level 1 = 2,220
  • Level 2 = 844
  • Level 5 = 2,841
  • Total = 5,905
Blocks not release
  • 527 = 463 (as pointed out by Marvin)
  • 528 = 1,159
  • 529 = 1,112
  • 530 = 1,054
  • 531 = 482 (as pointed out by fathelensbellend)
  • Total = 4,270
Allocation is 36,190 less 10,175 so sales are 26,015.
 
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Marvin. said:
Happy Easter. Seats are still selling.

Level 5: 2904 ( + 4200 estimate for the off-plan blocks (527-531)),
Level 2: 848,
Level 1: 2322 ,
Total unsold: 2904 + 4200 + 848 + 2322 = 10274.

Allocation: 36190

Sales: Allocation - total unsold = 25916

City may have additional seats off-plan for the team, staff and sponsors etc so this figure is likely a small over-estimate. However, I think our sales will surpass 26k today. It is difficult to know how they will proceed next week. The accumulation of sales with the sales criteria suggests that City's support at Wembley will be dominated by non-seasoncard holders. City should think about that, and so should the fans maligning so called casual supporters.
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Don't forget the half of block 531 they have not released that amounts to 482 seats.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
It’s not an extra allocation. Each team is allocated half of the top and bottom tier which is a total around 37k. The FA keep several thousand of these to sell themselves to fans of each club through their own routes. The ones which aren’t taken get given back to the club to sell.

This is why the allocation numbers vary for every Wembley game but ultimately we always have half the stadium.
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I'm pretty sure this didn't happen though (the number of available tickets changing on the ticket info page) for some of the other semi finals, Brighton and Sheff United for example....I had presumed last season it did as tickets were selling well
 
Gray said:
Don't forget the half of block 531 they have not released that amounts to 482 seats.
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My estimate for 527-531 (4200 seats) included that half block. The seating in 527 is not all for City fans so I just adjusted the 4.5 blocks down a 'little'. Have I under-estimated this section?

Edit: Just looked at your post above and you have a larger estimate for that section. I don't don't know how you arrived at your precise figures for each block when they are greyed out. 527 is not completely reserved for City fans.

I agree that sales are around 25,500
 
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Marvin. said:
My estimate for 527-531 (4200 seats) included that half block. The seating in 527 is not all for City fans so I just adjusted the 4.5 blocks down a 'little'. Have I under-estimated this section?
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Ok fair enough I wasn't aware of the situation regarding block 527 (total seats 915).

I will recount both sides of the aisle.
 
Marvin. said:
My estimate for 527-531 (4200 seats) included that half block. The seating in 527 is not all for City fans so I just adjusted the 4.5 blocks down a 'little'. Have I under-estimated this section?

Edit: Just looked at your post above and you have a larger estimate for that section. I don't don't know how you arrived at your precise figures for each block when they are greyed out. 527 is not completely reserved for City fans.

I agree that sales are around 25,500
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Block 527 is 463 seats on the City side of the aisle and 452 on the other side. If that is correct we will have sold 26,015 after altering my previous totals.
 
Marvin. said:
My estimate for 527-531 (4200 seats) included that half block. The seating in 527 is not all for City fans so I just adjusted the 4.5 blocks down a 'little'. Have I under-estimated this section?

Edit: Just looked at your post above and you have a larger estimate for that section. I don't don't know how you arrived at your precise figures for each block when they are greyed out. 527 is not completely reserved for City fans.

I agree that sales are around 25,500
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Great estimate I get the figure to be 4,270.
 
Gray said:
Block 527 is 463 seats on the City side of the aisle and 452 on the other side. If that is correct we will have sold 26,015 after altering my previous totals.
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Thank you. I got about 25 900 earlier this morning so working independently we have produced the same result. City may have more seats offline for staff etc that might not be taken up so our estimate might be at the upper end of the likely sales.

Off to roast our chicken now.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
It’s not an extra allocation. Each team is allocated half of the top and bottom tier which is a total around 37k. The FA keep several thousand of these to sell themselves to fans of each club through their own routes. The ones which aren’t taken get given back to the club to sell.

This is why the allocation numbers vary for every Wembley game but ultimately we always have half the stadium.
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Noticed the semi allocation gets bigger almost every season because they can’t sell as many corporate/ Club Wembley tickets as they used to.

Even the final allocation is bigger these days for the same reason. Think it was only 25k when we played Stoke back in 2011.

37k for a visit to London and a non final is a big ask for a club hundreds of miles away and where they play at the stadium miles more than anyone else.
 
ysmsa said:
"Most"

What a load of bollocks mate.

And a midweek home game doesn't involve spending a full day out from early in the morning.

It's a long day if you want to enjoy it.
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20.31 train gets to Piccadilly at 22.44. Which is pretty similar to the time you'd get there from the Etihad after a midweek game.
Unless your driving the train you can get a couple of hours sleep. Probably the same at Wembley if it's anything like our last couple of away games
 
Big Joe Corrigan said:
How long until the club stop that?
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I highly doubt that will happen. The club brought the instalment plan in house when they opened SS3 and a lot of people at that time were having their seats regraded to 93.20 and facing either a big price hike or moving elsewhere. Either way, the club were increasing 93.20 and needed an increasing amount of people to pay approx. a grand for a season ticket.

There’s a different mindset to paying for something monthly than in one go. Ask someone how much they pay for their phone, or their Sky TV and they’ll tell you the monthly instalment. They won’t X it by 12 ( or 10 in City’s case ) and tell you the PA cost.

Most people won’t even ever do that sum. If they did, and were paying an affordable £85 a month for Sky for example, they suddenly realise they’re paying a grand a year just to watch TV and are more likely to reconsider whether they can actually afford it after all.

City knows that. Someone who thinks of their season ticket as costing £100 a month, is far more likely to convince themselves that they can afford it than if they looking at the prospect of paying a grand upfront.

You even regularly hear fans talking about the two “free months” As if City are doing them a big favour and letting them off paying those months.
 
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