Season Ticket Renewals - small increases (again)

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

The table below is from last year and I'll post an updated one for this season when I get round to it.
It shows the prices for Adult Gold for the 12 main price bands (so excludes Platinum, Concessions heavily priced L2 seats, 93:20, Joe's etc).
It covers the 3 seasons from the opening of SS3 in 15/16 to 18/19.

Last season City had c24,000 season tickets available for purchase in the range £299 - £635.
United had just 2,000 STs (+disabled) at their lowest price point of £532. Everything else was more than £635 and their prices have been frozen for years.
The bottom line is that for a very high number our STs are far cheaper than United. Also, last time I looked, a United ST incorporates compulsory purchase for FA Cup and Champions League home matches and Zebra finance with interest if you want to pay by instalment.

As much as we don't like it, City's strategy is clear - they are increasing bit by bit each year and slowly wanting to catch up with United, Liverpool etc. On one hand the range of lower cost STs still is far better than other bigger clubs but ultimately they want to maximise income from all sources. Remember City were against the continuation of the £30 away ticket and were at the forefront (with Liverpool) lobbying the Premier League for the bigger share of international TV rights. Also matchday ticket pricing is way off IMO.

Hopefully, the drip drip effect of ST rises slows with the NS extension and/or allows people to move again to a lower ST price than their current band.

 

[pardoeofftomexico]

Ticket price rises probably won't cover the increased cost of stewarding, security etc.

That's another fair point. Every time I receive a bill it is more than last year.

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

So why do you think we gave him one more year ?My guess would be so instead of him leaving for nothing now we get a small fee for him. Or do you think it was just for a laugh.

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

Can only assume Mangala's extension was to retain some transfer value. Didnt Palace offer around £20m for him at one point? Don't think we'll get that now although injury probably hasn't helped...not all transfers work out...

 

[bladdered]

The table below is from last year and I'll post an updated one for this season when I get round to it.
It shows the prices for Adult Gold for the 12 main price bands (so excludes Platinum, Concessions heavily priced L2 seats, 93:20, Joe's etc).
It covers the 3 seasons from the opening of SS3 in 15/16 to 18/19.

Last season City had c24,000 season tickets available for purchase in the range £299 - £635.
United had just 2,000 STs (+disabled) at their lowest price point of £532. Everything else was more than £635 and their prices have been frozen for years.
The bottom line is that for a very high number our STs are far cheaper than United. Also, last time I looked, a United ST incorporates compulsory purchase for FA Cup and Champions League home matches and Zebra finance with interest if you want to pay by instalment.

As much as we don't like it, City's strategy is clear - they are increasing bit by bit each year and slowly wanting to catch up with United, Liverpool etc. On one hand the range of lower cost STs still is far better than other bigger clubs but ultimately they want to maximise income from all sources. Remember City were against the continuation of the £30 away ticket and were at the forefront (with Liverpool) lobbying the Premier League for the bigger share of international TV rights. Also matchday ticket pricing is way off IMO.

Hopefully, the drip drip effect of ST rises slows with the NS extension and/or allows people to move again to a lower ST price than their current band.

Interesting stuff. How did you get hold of that info and what about numbers in corporate bits? Are they in addition to the 44k?

 

[blue b4 the moon]

The relatively small amount of money raised in increases will probably be lost in goodwill and subsequently match day food/drink/shop sales.

They don't look at it like that.... they'll use the 'different' pot theory.

 

[MadchesterCity]

My cards went up £25 each but we ditched Platinum so overall £50 saving

Could have done without the increases this season, that's £820 our tickets now, more than comparable seats at the swamp

The sooner the stadium expansion happens the better!

 

[MadchesterCity]

Correct.
Probably a disliked response coming up but with FFP and a brilliant team on the pitch, someone has to contribute to it. The bottomless pit of money that has been mentioned by a few on here is irrelevant. Should we sign mbappe in the summer few would be complaining about a 3% increase. A successful team incurs massive bonuses that need to be funded within the constraints of FFP. Potentially, had we won fuck all last season there would probably be a freeze on prices for next season. Re-signing players contracts like aguero and Silva on less per week would have been stacked with massive bonuses based on trophies etc so by default those costs will have majorly increased.
Anyway, I'll shut the fuck up. My beloved club well and truly fucked me over in the 2003/4 season, and the season after so my season ticket after 20 odd years was well and truly shoved back up the club's arse!

If we sign Mbappe I'm willing to pay an extra £200 on my season cards

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

The table below is from last year and I'll post an updated one for this season when I get round to it.
It shows the prices for Adult Gold for the 12 main price bands (so excludes Platinum, Concessions heavily priced L2 seats, 93:20, Joe's etc).
It covers the 3 seasons from the opening of SS3 in 15/16 to 18/19.

Last season City had c24,000 season tickets available for purchase in the range £299 - £635.
United had just 2,000 STs (+disabled) at their lowest price point of £532. Everything else was more than £635 and their prices have been frozen for years.
The bottom line is that for a very high number our STs are far cheaper than United. Also, last time I looked, a United ST incorporates compulsory purchase for FA Cup and Champions League home matches and Zebra finance with interest if you want to pay by instalment.

As much as we don't like it, City's strategy is clear - they are increasing bit by bit each year and slowly wanting to catch up with United, Liverpool etc. On one hand the range of lower cost STs still is far better than other bigger clubs but ultimately they want to maximise income from all sources. Remember City were against the continuation of the £30 away ticket and were at the forefront (with Liverpool) lobbying the Premier League for the bigger share of international TV rights. Also matchday ticket pricing is way off IMO.

Hopefully, the drip drip effect of ST rises slows with the NS extension and/or allows people to move again to a lower ST price than their current band.

I was £600 in 15/16 and now £655. Does that mean that have changed the price band of the seat?

 

[FootballSense]

We get talk that money is not an issue but we don't make very much profit do we? Every single year someone says it is only an extra £800,000 or whatever. I can't be bothered looking at how much it really is (match day revenue will be shown in the accounts for those that are interested) but without the cumulative increases over the past 10 years that would imply £8,000,000 less income this year. I think it is very important when you are running a business to increase prices by a small amount each year. A year missed is a year lost. Of course, some argue that costs could be cut instead and that is possibly a different valid argument. Anyway, having seen that there are only 100 pages of comments my conclusion is that the reaction has been very low key this year.

Apart from PC and a few others.

With Bell and Lee and Summerbee :-)

1970 Blues we are here, whoa, whoa.