Priced out? | Club announce that matchday tickets being reduced by up to 43% (p93)

jrb said:
Originally posted by Damocles.

Revenue Segment: Matchday​


Matchday revenue increased from £71.9m to £75.6m (+5.1%)

Matchday revenue increased from £71.9m to £75.6m (+5.1%) despite four fewer paid home matches and one less neutral venue match.

As an aside, the club’s strategic report states that City played 31 home matches in 2022/23 (and therefore 5 fewer home matches), but by my count the 2022/23 total is 30 (PL: 19; UCL: 6; FA Cup: 3; EFL Cup: 2)

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I’ll repost the link if anyone wants to read the financial results breakdown. It’s really well set out.

gregcordell.substack.com

Manchester City FC: 2023/24 Financial Results

Overview of P&L, Investment, Cash Flow, and Debt
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How much is that down to chips and posh pies?
 
Losing the love for it, feels like a battle that is long lost, when I see 83 quid down the side v Everton I know my time is coming to an end, yes I have 4 season tickets, it just doesn’t feel like reality anymore. Asking people to spend half a weeks wages to take the kids to football seems sick to me, the greed has killed our home support, we have a football stadium where the last people wanted are blues. I can afford it, just, but do I want to continue to spend all my disposable income on this, not sure I do anymore
 
fathellensbellend said:
Losing the love for it, feels like a battle that is long lost, when I see 83 quid down the side v Everton I know my time is coming to an end, yes I have 4 season tickets, it just doesn’t feel like reality anymore. Asking people to spend half a weeks wages to take the kids to football seems sick to me, the greed has killed our home support, we have a football stadium where the last people wanted are blues. I can afford it, just, but do I want to continue to spend all my disposable income on this, not sure I do anymore
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I really thought I'd miss it this season.
Truth is.
I haven't one little bit.
 
jrb said:
Originally posted by Damocles.

Revenue Segment: Matchday​


Matchday revenue increased from £71.9m to £75.6m (+5.1%)

Matchday revenue increased from £71.9m to £75.6m (+5.1%) despite four fewer paid home matches and one less neutral venue match.

As an aside, the club’s strategic report states that City played 31 home matches in 2022/23 (and therefore 5 fewer home matches), but by my count the 2022/23 total is 30 (PL: 19; UCL: 6; FA Cup: 3; EFL Cup: 2)

IMG-4529.webp


I’ll repost the link if anyone wants to read the financial results breakdown. It’s really well set out.

gregcordell.substack.com

Manchester City FC: 2023/24 Financial Results

Overview of P&L, Investment, Cash Flow, and Debt
gregcordell.substack.com gregcordell.substack.com
Click to expand...
As i've posted previously, despite fewer games, matchday revenue increased due to the way we manage hospitality.

Rather than use a third party, where we got a fixed fee/percentage (which was classed as commercial income) while the partner company accounted for the revenue and costs, we now do it ourselves and account for all the revenue and the associated costs in our accounts.

As we only did that part way through the 2023 financial year, there was still some scope for an increase in the last FY.
 
I can’t go now due to health problems but, with travel by public transport I could not afford my old style random tickets (other commitments made Season Tickets unviable) at these prices. Totally unfair on guys who have gone week in week out through thick and thin. I’ve paid for some dross over the years!
Our owners appear not to understand or care about any of this, £££££££££.
#touristsareus.
 
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KS55 said:
I can’t go now due to health problems but, with travel by public transport I could not afford my old style random tickets (other commitments made Season Tickets unviable) at these prices. Totally unfair on guys who have gone week in week out through thick and thin. I’ve paid for some dross over the years!
Our owners appear not to understand or care about any of this, £££££££££.
#touristsareus.
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And yet we have people fawning over khaldioon’s end of season interview when he and his sidekicks are screwing us royally, it’s about time instead of being totally apathetic we should let them know the short termism mindset of chasing the tourist coin and giving the finger to legacy fans is unacceptable. They had a great opportunity to massively increase the local fan base with the success, make a serious attempt to win back lapsed fans, get the majority of kids on board and yet we have this soulless sanitised match day experience which has completely alienated many. They couldn’t care less about any of us.
 
BungleBear said:
Boxing Day 1987 you needed tickets at MR
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I (vaguely) remember literally waking up on the Kippax one day around Christmas/New Year in the late 70s. Suddenly realised that I was at a match, standing with a few mates in our usual apot.

Not a clue how I got there, and no memory of paying to get in. I didn't have any money in my pockets at all. The last I remembered was being in town the previous night. I probably jibbed in with someone at the turnstiles.

My brother turned up (as usual, just after kick off), and asked me why I didn't meet him in the Fallowfield before the game.

Those were the days.

Tickets? We didn't need tickets!
 
I’m in the fortunate position that I can comfortably afford my season ticket so it’s unlikely I will be priced out any time soon.

That being said I am on the verge of binning it off for other reasons. After the pandemic my passion for City isn’t as strong and I go to less games than I did (I used to be on all the cup schemes), and I have other interests that increasingly take up my weekends. Often going to the match feels like an obligation rather than something I do for fun.

That combined with the rip off prices, awful public transport and general poor treatment of fans makes me enjoy it less and less.

Moving seat helped, I found the south stand increasingly feral, I’ll keep my season ticket next year and then see what happens the year after.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Lots of people posting that they’ve lost interest but not many saying they’ve been priced out?? I’m For cheaper tickets btw.

Maybe we need a lost interest thread?
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I think the ones with season tickets aren't being priced out .It's the ones buying tickets on a match by match basis that definitely are.
Waiting to see what brainwave the powers to be come up with for selling new seats in the North Stand .Couldn't fill the ground for Feyenoord,Forrest,Everton.for whatever reason.It will be interesting to see what the bright sparks come up with
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
I’m in the fortunate position that I can comfortably afford my season ticket so it’s unlikely I will be priced out any time soon.

That being said I am on the verge of binning it off for other reasons. After the pandemic my passion for City isn’t as strong and I go to less games than I did (I used to be on all the cup schemes), and I have other interests that increasingly take up my weekends. Often going to the match feels like an obligation rather than something I do for fun.

That combined with the rip off prices, awful public transport and general poor treatment of fans makes me enjoy it less and less.

Moving seat helped, I found the south stand increasingly feral, I’ll keep my season ticket next year and then see what happens the year after.
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I am similar - been match going for 40 years but genuinely have better things to do these days. Think my last year of season ticket. Midweeks and getting home at 11 are a thing of the past.
 
Worsleyweb said:
I am similar - been match going for 40 years but genuinely have better things to do these days. Think my last year of season ticket. Midweeks and getting home at 11 are a thing of the past.
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Before you bin your ticket off let me know as i would be interested in buying it. Simple enough to transfer over. Seeing as the club not offering anymore
 
Worsleyweb said:
I am similar - been match going for 40 years but genuinely have better things to do these days. Think my last year of season ticket. Midweeks and getting home at 11 are a thing of the past.
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I looked around me in CBL3 on Thursday and was struck by the age of so many fans.

We all probably started watching City in the late 50s,early 60s putting us now in our late 60s,mid 70s & above.

Many hundreds,possibly thousands of us, will stop attending games for a variety of reasons in the next few years.

I really wonder how the club will attract and keep the replacement generation with the ticketing /pricing/ conditions in place currently, because they are steadily ailienating many,many hitherto loyal fans.

Wake up City,you're at at a dangerous tipping point !!
 
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