Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[supercity88]

Not at all true, modern football is now more about television rights, branding, the football etc.

Arsenal went down the wrong path with their stadium debt, sold their best players and never came back. They made a miscalculation about modern football, thought they were guaranteed super league/top 4 finish while increasing capacity. Today the share of matchday revenue in the overall income is decreasing more and more. Chelsea and Leicester are best examples not needing huge stadiums to compete.

Growing the global fan base to sell merchandise or virtual tickets when that becomes a thing is how revenue will grow. Matches will generate some but it will be dwarfed by other income streams. The club should balance the stadium with a number of cheap seats to build atmosphere and get numbers in. Those fans will still spend money. But the club seem to be happy with empty seats if they are charging enough for those that are filled. Barca and Real do okay with half empty stadiums on certain league games. A new stand adding 10,000 seats could be sold at £300 generating £3m. Or sell 5,001 at £600. and hope that number slowly grows.

 

[Keeper!]

Not at all true, modern football is now more about television rights, branding, the football etc.

Arsenal went down the wrong path with their stadium debt, sold their best players and never came back. They made a miscalculation about modern football, thought they were guaranteed super league/top 4 finish while increasing capacity. Today the share of matchday revenue in the overall income is decreasing more and more. Chelsea and Leicester are best examples not needing huge stadiums to compete.

True but as we witnessed during the pandemic, football and sport in general without spectators and atmosphere is a huge turnoff even for armchair fans.

Stadiums are hugely iconic and attract fans, and the best players want to play in the most iconic stadiums.

Attending a game in a full vibrant stadium is one of the best feelings in the world and it never gets boring.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Growing the global fan base to sell merchandise or virtual tickets when that becomes a thing is how revenue will grow. Matches will generate some but it will be dwarfed by other income streams. The club should balance the stadium with a number of cheap seats to build atmosphere and get numbers in. Those fans will still spend money. But the club seem to be happy with empty seats if they are charging enough for those that are filled. Barca and Real do okay with half empty stadiums on certain league games. A new stand adding 10,000 seats could be sold at £300 generating £3m. Or sell 5,001 at £600. and hope that number slowly grows.

Talking to a rag on holiday, says his ST cost him £14 a game, not any wonder they have a large crowd, that or he's a Billy Bullshit.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

hi

Growing the global fan base to sell merchandise or virtual tickets when that becomes a thing is how revenue will grow. Matches will generate some but it will be dwarfed by other income streams. The club should balance the stadium with a number of cheap seats to build atmosphere and get numbers in. Those fans will still spend money. But the club seem to be happy with empty seats if they are charging enough for those that are filled. Barca and Real do okay with half empty stadiums on certain league games. A new stand adding 10,000 seats could be sold at £300 generating £3m. Or sell 5,001 at £600. and hope that number slowly grows.

What evidence have you got that the Club wants empty seats?

Efforts to get stay away season card holders to turn up more often are usually contested on here.

 

[pirate]

Talking to a rag on holiday, says his ST cost him £14 a game, not any wonder they have a large crowd, that or he's a Billy Bullshit.

billy bullshit

looking online cheapest rag season ticket is 532 quid or 28 quid a game

cheapest at city is mine, 350 quid or 18.42 a game

 

[waspish]

billy bullshit

looking online cheapest rag season ticket is 532 quid or 28 quid a game

cheapest at city is mine, 350 quid or 18.42 a game

He probably sharing it with 4 people.

 

[Leeky]

Talking to a rag on holiday, says his ST cost him £14 a game, not any wonder they have a large crowd, that or he's a Billy Bullshit.

More like his Sky and BT subscription costs £14 per match like the rest of their fan base

 

[richards30]

More like his Sky and BT subscription costs £14 per match like the rest of their fan base

Correct!!

 

[remember arthur mann]

More like his Sky and BT subscription costs £14 per match like the rest of their fan base

A little slow there, I should have said to him, " seems a bit steep for watching that garbage" !

 

[Trojan1962]

Talking to a rag on holiday, says his ST cost him £14 a game, not any wonder they have a large crowd, that or he's a Billy Bullshit.

Let’s face it the quality of entertainment there isn’t worth anymore than that