Season Tickets - 2024/25

[Oyster28catcher]

is there a limit on how many times you can list your ticket on the exchange ?

You must list, transfer or attend 14 games. 5 games remain unaffected. That's my take on the Seasoncard rule page.

 

[East Level 2]

I just can’t understand the whinging and whining on here about SC prices. It has been like this for years. For more years than I can remember I was unable to afford SC/Ticket so just had to get a Matchday card and get to games as or when I could afford them. Just do the same and stop whining. We all have to make sacrifices in this day and age. If you can’t afford it don’t go. I used to save up to get there and was restricted to about once a month. Yes I missed going but didn’t bellyache like some on here. Will you be going to the Co-Op live every week when it opens? Will you be complaining about their ticket pricing? Can’t afford it? Then don’t go. Same as everything else in life.

Will Co-Op Live sell season tickets? Will Co-Op Live have bands you want to see 25 to 30 times a year? If not it's a pointless comparison.

 

[Edghill OG]

Ten

Any Season Ticket holder can sell** their seat for up to ten home Premier League matches.

I don't think this is true. I believe you could list it for every game if you so desired! 12 of the games (yet to be decided) are a guaranteed refund if listed by a certain time period before the fixture.

As Acton said you have to have attended, listed it on the exchange or transferred it to somebody else for 14 of the games. This requirement seems to keep going up from 10, 12 and now 14 I think. Presumably if you transferred it they'd have to have attended for it to count towards your 14 or you could just set up a phoney account and transfer it to that each time.

 

[jrb]

The club seem to be making season tickets and selling those individual seats more and more complexed. Or maybe it’s just me?

 

[One Fan Clapping]

I don't think this is true. I believe you could list it for every game if you so desired! 12 of the games (yet to be decided) are a guaranteed refund if listed by a certain time period before the fixture.

As Acton said you have to have attended, listed it on the exchange or transferred it to somebody else for 14 of the games. This requirement seems to keep going up from 10, 12 and now 14 I think. Presumably if you transferred it they'd have to have attended for it to count towards your 14 or you could just set up a phoney account and transfer it to that each time.

It says 10 on the exchange rules on the
Website. What I posted was copied directly from there.

Just because 12 are guaranteed refunds doesn’t mean you can list 12. So if you can’t go to 14 you can list 10 on the exchange and transfer 4 to be safe. That’s how I read it anyway!

What is Ticket Exchange? | Man City Help Centre

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[blueparrot]

Will Co-Op Live sell season tickets? Will Co-Op Live have bands you want to see 25 to 30 times a year? If not it's a pointless comparison.

They might have 25 bands a year people want to see.

 

[Edghill OG]

It says 10 on the exchange rules on the
Website. What I posted was copied directly from there.

Just because 12 are guaranteed refunds doesn’t mean you can list 12. So if you can’t go to 14 you can list 10 on the exchange and transfer 4 to be safe. That’s how I read it anyway!

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'**You can list your seat as many times as you like but it can only be sold a maximum of ten times.'

Bit vague on their part. Maybe you can put it on there more often than 10 games but won't get paid for those additional fixtures? So it helps people reach the 14, but no financial benefit for anything over 10. As you say, better transferring anyway. Doesn't effect me as I haven't missed one this season and if you list it that frequently you shouldn't really have one.

 

[Stephen230]

Are the matchday prices reduced too? It shows a comparison table of savings (including the fee) vs individual marchday tickets.

It does say if you decline your opportunity to buy your reserved seat but later decide to buy one anyway, that you’ll then be charged the full members rate.

So I think from that we can assume they are cheaper than members prices.

How much cheaper will hopefully be made a bit clearer before they ask you for a final decision. Assuming they offer you one.

 

[Jazzyblue]

I think we've all made sacrifices at some stage. I recall having to pay for my own tickets as a child from pot washing in the pub when I was a teenager. I think Eccles misunderstood what Blue Maverick was getting at. Nobody was knocking her parenting. Instances like mine are unlikely to occur now as tickets have become that expensive. I'm sure I've seen people say that child's tickets were £40 for some games? Dread to think of how many pots I'd have to have washed to make that back in the day.

Those saying 'when I couldn't afford to go, I didn't' isn't really comparable to now. Going back a few years it was fairly easy to pick up where you left off. Take a season or two off etc. People are aware if they do the same now they're probably never going to get it back again. It's totally different! They've probably already sacrificed more than they should, but it's a huge part of people's lives and it eats away at them their days of going could be gone forever.

Apart from the impact on fans it’s pushing business elsewhere. The fact Stockport County are looking to add another 7000 seats…yeah I know they’re on a roll and the town is on the up, but that is practically the size of our expansion. They aren’t just capitalising on their own success there, they are capitalising on the short termist,pro-tourist pricing strategies of the PL..how many of those 7000 extra County fans are probably natural Blues?

 

[Jazzyblue]

Are the matchday prices reduced too? It shows a comparison table of savings (including the fee) vs individual marchday tickets.

That’s if you can actually get one. If the initial target audience is ST holders with kids, no more than few hundred will go on sale to the many thousands of matchday members. I suspect at this stage it’s some kind of test for future season ticket arrangements - in the new stand or in general, as the supply of traditional season tickets becomes more and more restricted.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

They have given example prices for the stand, but also said that the prices are illustrative only, it's not clear how close to those figures it will actually end up being to attend that amount of games. What's to stop them deciding half way through the season to up the Flexi prices each game to make the total price far more than this 'illustrative' price. There would be nothing anyone on the Flexi could do apart from skip games if the individual match prices became too much. This lack of clear information makes it very difficult to plan costs for the season, it could end up being a gamble.

Anybody thinking of doing this, it needs to be mulled over very carefully. The sample prices given are for the East Stand third level. But you know you won't always be there. For marquee matches, you could be anywhere in the stadium. Anywhere where they can fit you in, basically. And it's a while since I've bought a ticket as an ordinary Cityzens member, but for Chelsea, for example, it was a clear £60, and it's probably gone up since then. That was for East Stand second level, as I remember it. I attended the Villa match at the end of the 13-14 season as an ordinary member, and I think it was about that too. I was surprised. But of course, penultimate home match of the season, and probable title determiner. They think in terms of supply and demand. Simple as.
I understand that for those who can't get a Season Card, and not likely to get one in the near future, it looks like a decent option. But there are several imponderables here.
It's one of the reasons why I'm very loathe to give up my SC, despite the yearly price rises. And despite the fact that I'm now on a pension, and come in from another country. They know that. There's a rumour around that they're thinking of rescinding the 65+ concession. I don't know how much truth there is to that. If they did, I would definitely be out, though.

 

[Edghill OG]

Apart from the impact on fans it’s pushing business elsewhere. The fact Stockport County are looking to add another 7000 seats…yeah I know they’re on a roll and the town is on the up, but that is practically the size of our expansion. They aren’t just capitalising on their own success there, they are capitalising on the short termist,pro-tourist pricing strategies of the PL..how many of those 7000 extra County fans are probably natural Blues?

They're probably happy to offload working class fans to other clubs. They're not the people they want there any longer. Like you say it's a very short-termist approach. Of course the demand has increased but for undesirable midweek games people are practically giving their tickets away on social media. That's the season after winning the treble, so imagine how it'd be when Pep packs his bags and they have a few indifferent seasons?

I'm sure most regular match-going fans would rather they stopped with the cheese on City Square, light shows etc to have more reasonably priced tickets. I don't think we're the people they're trying to cater for though.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Nah, Oakie can't be doing with this new fangled currency. He's still carrying Groats.

Are you sure he's not exchanging beads and sea shells and suchlike?

 

[stonerblue]

You would need to be hit on the head by a neckesr bomb for City to remove somebody’s season card for ill health. They are very accommodating.

I was t thinking about any punishment. More a reward if some body goes to every game for a number of years. It wouldn’t have to be very big.

Bang on. Friend of mine was very ill and missed all last season. When his daughter told the club they initially said summat about the exchange thingy. When they found out he'd had a ST for 40 odd years they said fuck that, we'll look after the ticket, give him any monies back and give him the ticket back whenever he's fit enough. No messing about.

 

[Jazzyblue]

They're probably happy to offload working class fans to other clubs. They're not the people they want there any longer. Like you say it's a very short-termist approach. Of course the demand has increased but for undesirable midweek games people are practically giving their tickets away on social media. That's the season after winning the treble, so imagine how it'd be when Pep packs his bags and they have a few indifferent seasons?

I'm sure most regular match-going fans would rather they stopped with the cheese on City Square, light shows etc to have more reasonably priced tickets. I don't think we're the people they're trying to cater for though.

This is the reality of it. But when the new stand opens the club could have a difficulty. Most of us on here to pay to see City. But a lot of the new demand is from folk who are paying to see City v Big Name Opposition.They aren’t rushing to pay £60 to see us play Burnley or Brentford on a wet Wednesday now so what happens when we’ve got thousands more seats to fill? Flexi Gold isn’t going to solve that problem.

 

[Stephen230]

Anybody thinking of doing this, it needs to be mulled over very carefully. The sample prices given are for the East Stand third level. But you know you won't always be there. For marquee matches, you could be anywhere in the stadium. Anywhere where they can fit you in, basically. And it's a while since I've bought a ticket as an ordinary Cityzens member, but for Chelsea, for example, it was a clear £60, and it's probably gone up since then. That was for East Stand second level, as I remember it. I attended the Villa match at the end of the 13-14 season as an ordinary member, and I think it was about that too. I was surprised. But of course, penultimate home match of the season, and probable title determiner. They think in terms of supply and demand. Simple as.
I understand that for those who can't get a Season Card, and not likely to get one in the near future, it looks like a decent option. But there are several imponderables here.
It's one of the reasons why I'm very loathe to give up my SC, despite the yearly price rises. And despite the fact that I'm now on a pension, and come in from another country. They know that. There's a rumour around that they're thinking of rescinding the 65+ concession. I don't know how much truth there is to that. If they did, I would definitely be out, though.

You’re misunderstanding the whole main selling point. You pick a specific seat and it’s yours, guaranteed for as many matches as you wish to buy ( min. 10 )

They can’t move you around.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

You’re misunderstanding the whole main selling point. You pick a specific seat and it’s yours, guaranteed for as many matches as you wish to buy ( min. 10 )

They can’t move you around.

Oh, ok. My bad. Read it a bit quickly, because it didn't basically attract me. That definitely makes it more attractive.

 

[Stephen230]

Oh, ok. My bad. Read it a bit quickly, because it didn't basically attract me. That definitely makes it more attractive.

Yeah, I think the main objective of it ( besides the cynical money angle ) is to get more kids into the ground.

I’m unsure if they’re going to be available to new adult members who aren’t downgrading but the main target definitely seems to be children of existing adult ST holders.

It does address a problem. As you can be a ST holder with a child member but it can be virtually impossible to get them individually match tickets next to or even very close to you for most games at the moment.

 

[Theblueguy]

Anybody thinking of doing this, it needs to be mulled over very carefully. The sample prices given are for the East Stand third level. But you know you won't always be there. For marquee matches, you could be anywhere in the stadium. Anywhere where they can fit you in, basically. And it's a while since I've bought a ticket as an ordinary Cityzens member, but for Chelsea, for example, it was a clear £60, and it's probably gone up since then. That was for East Stand second level, as I remember it. I attended the Villa match at the end of the 13-14 season as an ordinary member, and I think it was about that too. I was surprised. But of course, penultimate home match of the season, and probable title determiner. They think in terms of supply and demand. Simple as.
I understand that for those who can't get a Season Card, and not likely to get one in the near future, it looks like a decent option. But there are several imponderables here.
It's one of the reasons why I'm very loathe to give up my SC, despite the yearly price rises. And despite the fact that I'm now on a pension, and come in from another country. They know that. There's a rumour around that they're thinking of rescinding the 65+ concession. I don't know how much truth there is to that. If they did, I would definitely be out, though.

I dont read it as being anywhere they can fit you in. It sounds like it will be a fixed seating location as they are offering them for juniors (and youd need to know there are near you each game). For example there is a couple of solo seats near me that were available for several games last year on the first day of sale so that must be one of the options.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

There's a rumour around that they're thinking of rescinding the 65+ concession. I don't know how much truth there is to that. If they did, I would definitely be out, though.

where you hear this? I know Spurs have just done away with theirs.