Season Card Reservations/Relocations Direct Debit update 11/6

[Centurions]

Matchday prices at our Stadium are extortionate and are well out of the affordability of the thousands of people that live in the vicinity.

A person who cannot afford to pay for a season ticket sure as hell isn't going to shell out close to sixty quid for a one off game.

Until the club addresses this problem then there will always be a struggle to sell individual game tickets.

How much were match day tickets last season for the differing match levels?

 

[blueparrot]

How much were match day tickets last season for the differing match levels?

For league games, just from memory, cheapest games were £46 - £55 and dearest games £50 -£60.
I agree they need to be more creative with pricing with the new capacity. Until now there was no real pressure as most league games were sold out or very close to selling out.

 

[dooie68]

Matchday prices at our Stadium are extortionate and are well out of the affordability of the thousands of people that live in the vicinity.

A person who cannot afford to pay for a season ticket sure as hell isn't going to shell out close to sixty quid for a one off game.

Until the club addresses this problem then there will always be a struggle to sell individual game tickets.

 

[dooie68]

I'm a member of our local branch in West Sussex, next season ticket prices are already on our Web site! £59 a game except Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, rags&last game of the season £75! How our organiser has arrived at these prices I don't know?
But to do even ten home games it justifies getting a season ticket. As I do over twenty a season I brought my own season card
But you are right thinking outside the box , encouraging schools and youth clubs to come to games on mass, could encourage a new generation of fans,

 

[Marvin]

Build it they will come. (If you charge the right prices.)

I think the year-on-year price rises for many are just too much. About 15% too high if you want my honest opinion.
Two different people whose information I trust have told me now that 12-15,000 blues gave up their season tickets during the Pearce years and they have never came back.
I think the main reason is price. We do not live in London and generally do not get paid London wages.

Those estimates sound very high although anecdotally it does seem to have been a time when a wave of City fans started to give up.

I agree about the point you made about money, and Manchester, yet for a successful team, in an age when football is very popular, I'm not sure where that max limit is. For a small number City have become a tourist destination like Barcelona. If you're in Manchester on match-day, go and see Aguero and Silva

Matchday prices at our Stadium are extortionate and are well out of the affordability of the thousands of people that live in the vicinity.

A person who cannot afford to pay for a season ticket sure as hell isn't going to shell out close to sixty quid for a one off game.

Until the club addresses this problem then there will always be a struggle to sell individual game tickets.

City averaged 45,365 last season when the capacity was reduced to about 46k. I sat in 216 last season next to the away end last season which was almost always allocated to City fans because away clubs returned tickets or failed to take up their allocation and it was always full of City fans buying tickets on a match by match basis from at least £45 and often more. I remember comparing our prices at the back of the South Stand to those at Utd for equivalent fixtures, and our prices were significantly more expensive.

The comments from those who bought in the last week suggested that the new tier had sold out, Level 2 was close to selling out, and the only areas with significant numbers of seats left were the corner blocks and the back 6 rows of the East and West Stands which sounds like even less availability than last season. However, the pool of match-day fans will now be reduced so I hope match-day prices come down.

I thought last season we might see an initiative to cap prices for visiting fans, but instead clubs started subsidising fans for selected games. Capping prices in the away end is the best thing clubs could do as the number of away fans following clubs like Newcastle, Sunderland, Everton has dropped massively in recent seasons. And it affects the experience of home fans as well

 

[Blue Bogey]

On a positive note we will see the 'club average league attendance' reach a record level in the clubs history for a season! Which shows our Club is growing.

One thing that has baffled me is why do the club sell to blue members/ Cityzen members match day tickets so close to the date of the actual game? Should put these on sale to members much sooner.

 

[jrb]

Rather than trying to find the figure as this is a fast moving thread, has anyone posted a rough Idea of how many season ticket holders we now have after the waiting list has been worked through? Thanks.

 

[blueparrot]

Rather than trying to find the figure as this is a fast moving thread, has anyone posted a rough Idea of how many season ticket holders we now have after the waiting list has been worked through? Thanks.

I don't think anybody has. I've just had a look on the o/s and can't see anything about general sale either. I know someone posted they had gone through the list, I don't know if the general sale thing was just an assumption, or they have to decide what happens next.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Rather than trying to find the figure as this is a fast moving thread, has anyone posted a rough Idea of how many season ticket holders we now have after the waiting list has been worked through? Thanks.

The estimates have been in the 42k to 43k region.

 

[fathellensbellend]

cannot see how match day prices will drop, 750 quid season tickets in the 3rd tier = nearly 40 quid a game, the club won't be selling tickets cheaper than the cost of a season ticket.