Seat Counters - 2024/25

[mexico1970]

So you want me to travel 3 hours to the Etihad queue up travel 3 hours back home, just to buy a ticket .

It's not all about you is it? Again, how do you think City fan used to get tickets?

The ticket fairy?

 

[asahartford1]

It's not all about you is it? Again, how do you think City fan used to get tickets?

The ticket fairy?

Do you want me to travel for 6 hours , queue up just to buy a ticket, when I travel 6 hours round trip for home games, and also go to a majority of away games.

Yes, or no?

 

[mexico1970]

Do you want me to travel for 6 hours , queue up just to buy a ticket, when I travel 6 hours round trip for home games, and also go to a majority of away games.

Yes, or no?

Did I not just say that? You'll have to do what everyone else has to or do you think you're special?

Don't tell me I think I know the answer.

 

[Southportctid]

How many of the 29 games at Wembley since 2011 have you done?

24

 

[asahartford1]

Did I not just say that? You'll have to do what everyone else has to or do you think you're special?

Don't tell me I think I know the answer.

Ah, got it.

Some sort of Clarkie, I admit it I thought you were serious.

 

[Gingers Dad]

You do but it stops going on a website to see lots of greyed out seats and you get as much chance of going to the final as you do to the semis, if we get to the final the 3rd party ticketing sites will be hammered and a good many who went to the semi will not be eligible for the final.

Queuing up is the great leveller IMHO.

Most of this thread has been about people not wanting to go to the semi final. I don't see how adding queuing to the experience will incentivise

 

[Corky]

Most of this thread has been about people not wanting to go to the semi final. I don't see how adding queuing to the experience will incentivise

I queued in 2011 twice it took 3 or 4 hours.

First day was midweek and 2nd on a Saturday, there were just phone sales and in person. If it was the same for this game it would be about 15k going.

 

[mexico1970]

Most of this thread has been about people not wanting to go to the semi final. I don't see how adding queuing to the experience will incentivise

I believe that it's the fact that a lot of people have been asked to pick up the slack for those guaranteed a place in the final or indeed big games in general, if ticket allocation was organised in a more egalitarian way then that apathy would disappear.

Influencers assemble for the final shouldn't be a thing, it's a shame that people attending the semi can't get final tickets no?

 

[Stretford Born Blue]

Thanks for the interesting comment.

This has been covered elsewhere but we know for a fact that City's non-seasoncard support has surged and there is an old but quality dataset that suggests that the majority of City's seasoncard holders live outside Greater ManChester. We also know from the club that 50% of seasoncard holders do not on average go to the midweek CL games.

I believe that City's support has surged locally, nationally and internationally since the takeover and that we see these fans at games. Ironically, I think on a CL night, the crowd is dominated by locals from what is now a very cosmopolitan Manchester.

We are living in a period when football is extremely popular and in one where prices have never been higher so football crowds are changing. It is confusing but at the same time interesting. When I first started supporting City in the 1970s, football was almost all white now it has totally changed and City fans represent the community in which the club is based. This is social progress. That doesn't mean that there aren't problems between the club and fanbase. We know there are.

You commented that City that City are encouraging overseas fan at the expense of local fans. I disagree with that and think that we have seen a big increase in both occasional visiting City fans from abroad and local fans.

Prior to moving from Maine Road, to the now Eithad, I attended an inaugural supporters club meeting at Northenden.
Dennis Tueart, alongside a couple of other City representatives were in attendance.
Much of the talk was about the move to the new stadium and, whether to make it a 50 or 60 thousand seater stadium.
The Club were leaning towards a near 50 thousand seater, based on our then current fan base size and demand for tickets and sales.
Somebody asked how do the club gather data for such as decision.
The answer was simple really and, was based on the number of season ticket holders, members and the number of enquiries above and beyond ticket’s available for a game.
Dennis Tueart said further, that 36% of our then fan base (20 odd years ago), lived in the South East!
City now have around 190 million social media followers across various platforms and, it grows by 20000 per month, of which around 1% live in the UK.
The 1% figure sounds small, but in essence it could be nearly 2 million, from a population of 68 million!
We are the fastest growing club in history, on and off the pitch, the fan base has grown enormously, but, the club are failing somewhere, when membership only stands at 140000.
That figure should be 5 or 6 hundred thousand.
There’s a lot of money to be made there, match day memberships should be £10, not £35, then maybe we’d have more fans who meet the criteria to buy tickets, or indeed, are able to buy tickets?!

 

[fathellensbellend]

Prior to moving from Maine Road, to the now Eithad, I attended an inaugural supporters club meeting at Northenden.
Dennis Tueart, alongside a couple of other City representatives were in attendance.
Much of the talk was about the move to the new stadium and, whether to make it a 50 or 60 thousand seater stadium.
The Club were leaning towards a near 50 thousand seater, based on our then current fan base size and demand for tickets and sales.
Somebody asked how do the club gather data for such as decision.
The answer was simple really and, was based on the number of season ticket holders, members and the number of enquiries above and beyond ticket’s available for a game.
Dennis Tueart said further, that 36% of our then fan base (20 odd years ago), lived in the South East!
City now have around 190 million social media followers across various platforms and, it grows by 20000 per month, of which around 1% live in the UK.
The 1% figure sounds small, but in essence it could be nearly 2 million, from a population of 68 million!
We are the fastest growing club in history, on and off the pitch, the fan base has grown enormously, but, the club are failing somewhere, when membership only stands at 140000.
That figure should be 5 or 6 hundred thousand.
There’s a lot of money to be made there, match day memberships should be £10, not £35, then maybe we’d have more fans who meet the criteria to buy tickets, or indeed, are able to buy tickets?!

i agree about the membership price, 10 quid to join and kids free, instantly our fanbase rockets

 

[flapjack]

Prior to moving from Maine Road, to the now Eithad, I attended an inaugural supporters club meeting at Northenden.
Dennis Tueart, alongside a couple of other City representatives were in attendance.
Much of the talk was about the move to the new stadium and, whether to make it a 50 or 60 thousand seater stadium.
The Club were leaning towards a near 50 thousand seater, based on our then current fan base size and demand for tickets and sales.
Somebody asked how do the club gather data for such as decision.
The answer was simple really and, was based on the number of season ticket holders, members and the number of enquiries above and beyond ticket’s available for a game.
Dennis Tueart said further, that 36% of our then fan base (20 odd years ago), lived in the South East!
City now have around 190 million social media followers across various platforms and, it grows by 20000 per month, of which around 1% live in the UK.
The 1% figure sounds small, but in essence it could be nearly 2 million, from a population of 68 million!
We are the fastest growing club in history, on and off the pitch, the fan base has grown enormously, but, the club are failing somewhere, when membership only stands at 140000.
That figure should be 5 or 6 hundred thousand.
There’s a lot of money to be made there, match day memberships should be £10, not £35, then maybe we’d have more fans who meet the criteria to buy tickets, or indeed, are able to buy tickets?!

I'm not an expert but I'm presuming that they have to be expensive enough to put people off, otherwise any game that is for members only would see loads of people just buying them for a tenner (as an extension of the price of the ticket) and then throwing them in the bin

 

[gkmcfc]

I'd have thought being in the competition was incentive enough. I don't understand what you mean?

I agree with you. You’d have to ask the season ticket holders that don’t go. Can’t speak for other parts of the ground, but the north stand is full of neutral fans for most champions league games. Madrid game was the worst it’s been.

 

[gkmcfc]

I live in Warrington and involved in youth football, we are unfortunately nowhere near the level of Liverpool and United support, maybe one or two more kids support us but not close to there support and the gap isn't changing significantly.

Clearly varies I guess. More kids a following City than for a generation - more so than Everton for sure. Will take us decades to get anywhere close to the other two.

 

[gkmcfc]

There are 20,700 Season Ticket Members on the UEFA Cup Scheme and on average season ticket holders were half the CL match-day attendance in 2024-25. We have 37,000 season ticket holders. There have been up to 15,000 match-day members on CL nights which is I believe is higher than you would expect for a PL fixture.

Source: City Matters group minutes, Feb 2025, mancity.com

That figure will drop next season IMO

 

[Gingers Dad]

I believe that it's the fact that a lot of people have been asked to pick up the slack for those guaranteed a place in the final or indeed big games in general, if ticket allocation was organised in a more egalitarian way then that apathy would disappear.

Influencers assemble for the final shouldn't be a thing, it's a shame that people attending the semi can't get final tickets no?

I'm in the cup schemes and have enough points to go the final. I've paid for every single one of those points. I'm not prepared to agree to give up a potential cup final ticket just because some think it would be fair.
I'm not rich by any stretch but I choose to spend my disposable income on City matches and the day out around it. My choice.

 

[mexico1970]

I'm in the cup schemes and have enough points to go the final. I've paid for every single one of those points. I'm not prepared to agree to give up a potential cup final ticket just because some think it would be fair.
I'm not rich by any stretch but I choose to spend my disposable income on City matches and the day out around it. My choice.

I wouldn't change it when the season takes place mate, always at the start of the season.

 

[Gingers Dad]

I'm not an expert but I'm presuming that they have to be expensive enough to put people off, otherwise any game that is for members only would see loads of people just buying them for a tenner (as an extension of the price of the ticket) and then throwing them in the bin

I think this is a problem they have with the women's team. The website might show a sellout or close to it. Watching the game on TV it doesn't look like that.

 

[Gingers Dad]

I wouldn't change it when the season takes place mate, always at the start of the season.

Selfishly, I wouldn't be in favour of anything that has a detrimental effect on my position in the pecking order.

 

[Gingers Dad]

I agree with you. You’d have to ask the season ticket holders that don’t go. Can’t speak for other parts of the ground, but the north stand is full of neutral fans for most champions league games. Madrid game was the worst it’s been.

Why do you say worst? If those people didn't go then no one would be there. I'm not being arsey just asking

 

[Beaker]

I'm not an expert but I'm presuming that they have to be expensive enough to put people off, otherwise any game that is for members only would see loads of people just buying them for a tenner (as an extension of the price of the ticket) and then throwing them in the bin

Not if the tickets were sold on a points or prior attendance basis. For games which have become available to all members, purchasing both a membership and a ticket would not be an issue.