Season Tickets - 2025/26 | Changes to ticket transfer this season (p101)

Some advice needed people a family member has had there season card cancelled after 1 missed payment can they do this ? Thought it had to be 3
 
uwe rosler 28 said:
Some advice needed people a family member has had there season card cancelled after 1 missed payment can they do this ? Thought it had to be 3
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Sometimes it's their end too. Happened to me and I received a threatening email about losing it. Rang them up and they said it's still active and it's their end and not to worry about it as it 'happens with a certain number of people every month'. No apology or anything. Had to make a card payment for the missed month. Asked them 'what if it happens again?' and can't remember what they replied with but fortunately it hasn't. Useless. Ring them up mate.
 
Edghill OG said:
Sometimes it's their end too. Happened to me and I received a threatening email about losing it. Rang them up and they said it's still active and it's their end and not to worry about it as it 'happens with a certain number of people every month'. No apology or anything. Had to make a card payment for the missed month. Asked them 'what if it happens again?' and can't remember what they replied with but fortunately it hasn't. Useless. Ring them up mate.
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Apparently he's had a phone call off them saying they are cancelling it.
 
ftg89 said:
Same price overall as a season ticket in the same area.
Matches are split into categories
Where I sit, a season ticket is £860

United, Liverpool, arsenal, Chelsea - £66

Villa, Newcastle, spurs, Bournemouth - £49

Brighton, palace, hammers, wolves - £42

Brentford, Fulham, Ipswich, Leicester, forest - £32

Southampton - £28

All adds up to £860

The extra cost is the stupid £150 you pay to secure the seats at (like a membership fee)

Yes, I’m sure there is an over 65 price difference.
There definitely is a junior one.
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What part of the ground is that for?
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
With a heavy heart, I'm going to have to give up my SC, and simply revert to membership. Does anybody know if you lose your points when you do that? I can't see why you would, but anything seems possible these days.
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You keep your points, bar the 1,000 you got when you took out your season ticket. So if you had 15,000:points, you'll end up with 14,000.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
With a heavy heart, I'm going to have to give up my SC, and simply revert to membership. Does anybody know if you lose your points when you do that? I can't see why you would, but anything seems possible these days.
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Id strongly advise against this and try think of an alternative. Even renew and let someone have it for a year as in a years time you might feel differently. Once you give up i dont think there is a way back.
 
Dubciteh said:
Id strongly advise against this and try think of an alternative. Even renew and let someone have it for a year as in a years time you might feel differently. Once you give up i dont think there is a way back.
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The new ruling on attendance of ten games minimum changes the game radically for me. Let me explain: I fly in from abroad to attend games. Deliberately, ever since I acquired it (in the big window that was opened in 2015, if I remember rightly, anyway, that coincided with the opening of the third level of the south stand), I have never chosen to sit down and calculate the cost of any given match. It is certified insanity to have done it, and I simply didn't want to know. Put it this way, it is two or three hundred pounds a match — completely nuts, eh? And that's if I'm lucky enough to be put up for a night or two by friends. Given that I am not a retired futures trader or some such, but just a retired teacher, you will easily understand that I've had to pick and choose my matches and space them out (and don't imagine that I only went to marquee matches like the dippers, Chelsea, and rags).
Let me add, immediately and forcefully, that that seat is never empty. That is an unnegotiable point of principle. Not once this season has it been empty.(On Friday it will not be empty). Oh, and it's not some tourist from Canada or Seoul sitting in it. It is one of two lifelong blues like myself, in the Friends/Family category.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining. I do not claim to have held a season ticket for twenty or thirty years running. I do not claim to have ever had a season since ’68 when I attended every single match home and away. I've been a City supporter since I was thirteen years old, and I've gone as and when I could. Since I haven't lived in England since 1978 that's severely limited it, as you can well imagine. The coming of the low-cost airlines made it possible for me to attend again (I have qualms about my carbon footprint, but that's another matter!).
I was not at Wembley in ’99, although I'd love to have been, and was not in the stadium for 93.20. That's normal, why should I have been given a ticket? (I did, believe it or not, fly in to Manchester just to be in the town and in a bar full of blues on that day, to be, in short, with my “tribe” on that day of days — that morning I went for a pilgrimage walk right across Moss Side, took about an hour and a half, just for the memories — I felt a deep sense of melancholy at the site of the old Maine Road, which has been a housing estate for years since the demolition, of course).
I've had a great run — although I did not witness May 2012 directly, I was there on that rainy night against Villa in 2014 when Yaya scored a goal the memory of which I'll take to my dying day. I was there again against Villa for that mad fifteen minutes three years ago. That also, I shall never, ever forget. It was the next best thing to having been at Wembley in ’99, or the Etihad on 13 May, 2012. I was also there for West Ham a year ago to see us clinch an unheard-of four in a row. I was also privileged to have a seat up in the gods at Wembley to see us smash Watford and complete an unheard-of domestic treble. And above all, I was privileged to have a seat up in the gods to see us beat the rags two years ago, put them right in their place, on our way to an almost unheard-of European treble.
I'll be the last in the queue, but if I can, I'd like one last hurrah at Wembley against Palace (although my finances really don't permit it). Failing that, I'll be over for sure for Bournemouth, if only to say goodbye to a Belgian who, after King Colin and Merlin, is the greatest player I've seen to have pulled on that blue shirt (never saw Kinkladze play live, I imagine he might be in that conversation).
I'm sad about it, but not bowing out, as long as I'm breathing, and mobile. Will revert to matchday membership, and get over as and when finances permit.
There you have it…
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
The new ruling on attendance of ten games minimum changes the game radically for me. Let me explain: I fly in from abroad to attend games. Deliberately, ever since I acquired it (in the big window that was opened in 2015, if I remember rightly, anyway, that coincided with the opening of the third level of the south stand), I have never chosen to sit down and calculate the cost of any given match. It is certified insanity to have done it, and I simply didn't want to know. Put it this way, it is two or three hundred pounds a match — completely nuts, eh? And that's if I'm lucky enough to be put up for a night or two by friends. Given that I am not a retired futures trader or some such, but just a retired teacher, you will easily understand that I've had to pick and choose my matches and space them out (and don't imagine that I only went to marquee matches like the dippers, Chelsea, and rags).
Let me add, immediately and forcefully, that that seat is never empty. That is an unnegotiable point of principle. Not once this season has it been empty.(On Friday it will not be empty). Oh, and it's not some tourist from Canada or Seoul sitting in it. It is one of two lifelong blues like myself, in the Friends/Family category.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining. I do not claim to have held a season ticket for twenty or thirty years running. I do not claim to have ever had a season since ’68 when I attended every single match home and away. I've been a City supporter since I was thirteen years old, and I've gone as and when I could. Since I haven't lived in England since 1978 that's severely limited it, as you can well imagine. The coming of the low-cost airlines made it possible for me to attend again (I have qualms about my carbon footprint, but that's another matter!).
I was not at Wembley in ’99, although I'd love to have been, and was not in the stadium for 93.20. That's normal, why should I have been given a ticket? (I did, believe it or not, fly in to Manchester just to be in the town and in a bar full of blues on that day, to be, in short, with my “tribe” on that day of days — that morning I went for a pilgrimage walk right across Moss Side, took about an hour and a half, just for the memories — I felt a deep sense of melancholy at the site of the old Maine Road, which has been a housing estate for years since the demolition, of course).
I've had a great run — although I did not witness May 2012 directly, I was there on that rainy night against Villa in 2014 when Yaya scored a goal the memory of which I'll take to my dying day. I was there again against Villa for that mad fifteen minutes three years ago. That also, I shall never, ever forget. It was the next best thing to having been at Wembley in ’99, or the Etihad on 13 May, 2012. I was also there for West Ham a year ago to see us clinch an unheard-of four in a row. I was also privileged to have a seat up in the gods at Wembley to see us smash Watford and complete an unheard-of domestic treble. And above all, I was privileged to have a seat up in the gods to see us beat the rags two years ago, put them right in their place, on our way to an almost unheard-of European treble.
I'll be the last in the queue, but if I can, I'd like one last hurrah at Wembley against Palace (although my finances really don't permit it). Failing that, I'll be over for sure for Bournemouth, if only to say goodbye to a Belgian who, after King Colin and Merlin, is the greatest player I've seen to have pulled on that blue shirt (never saw Kinkladze play live, I imagine he might be in that conversation).
I'm sad about it, but not bowing out, as long as I'm breathing, and mobile. Will revert to matchday membership, and get over as and when finances permit.
There you have it…
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Sounds like you’ve done the hard yards mate and you have a better chance of getting tickets that at any time since before Covid. There’s been a noticeable drop off in insta-fan interest since Brighton, Liverpool will be soaking up more of them now and the club is about to increase supply dramatically at a time when the fanbase is agitated. The club will have no choice but to become more fan friendly in ticketing and pricing policies.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
The new ruling on attendance of ten games minimum changes the game radically for me. Let me explain: I fly in from abroad to attend games. Deliberately, ever since I acquired it (in the big window that was opened in 2015, if I remember rightly, anyway, that coincided with the opening of the third level of the south stand), I have never chosen to sit down and calculate the cost of any given match. It is certified insanity to have done it, and I simply didn't want to know. Put it this way, it is two or three hundred pounds a match — completely nuts, eh? And that's if I'm lucky enough to be put up for a night or two by friends. Given that I am not a retired futures trader or some such, but just a retired teacher, you will easily understand that I've had to pick and choose my matches and space them out (and don't imagine that I only went to marquee matches like the dippers, Chelsea, and rags).
Let me add, immediately and forcefully, that that seat is never empty. That is an unnegotiable point of principle. Not once this season has it been empty.(On Friday it will not be empty). Oh, and it's not some tourist from Canada or Seoul sitting in it. It is one of two lifelong blues like myself, in the Friends/Family category.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining. I do not claim to have held a season ticket for twenty or thirty years running. I do not claim to have ever had a season since ’68 when I attended every single match home and away. I've been a City supporter since I was thirteen years old, and I've gone as and when I could. Since I haven't lived in England since 1978 that's severely limited it, as you can well imagine. The coming of the low-cost airlines made it possible for me to attend again (I have qualms about my carbon footprint, but that's another matter!).
I was not at Wembley in ’99, although I'd love to have been, and was not in the stadium for 93.20. That's normal, why should I have been given a ticket? (I did, believe it or not, fly in to Manchester just to be in the town and in a bar full of blues on that day, to be, in short, with my “tribe” on that day of days — that morning I went for a pilgrimage walk right across Moss Side, took about an hour and a half, just for the memories — I felt a deep sense of melancholy at the site of the old Maine Road, which has been a housing estate for years since the demolition, of course).
I've had a great run — although I did not witness May 2012 directly, I was there on that rainy night against Villa in 2014 when Yaya scored a goal the memory of which I'll take to my dying day. I was there again against Villa for that mad fifteen minutes three years ago. That also, I shall never, ever forget. It was the next best thing to having been at Wembley in ’99, or the Etihad on 13 May, 2012. I was also there for West Ham a year ago to see us clinch an unheard-of four in a row. I was also privileged to have a seat up in the gods at Wembley to see us smash Watford and complete an unheard-of domestic treble. And above all, I was privileged to have a seat up in the gods to see us beat the rags two years ago, put them right in their place, on our way to an almost unheard-of European treble.
I'll be the last in the queue, but if I can, I'd like one last hurrah at Wembley against Palace (although my finances really don't permit it). Failing that, I'll be over for sure for Bournemouth, if only to say goodbye to a Belgian who, after King Colin and Merlin, is the greatest player I've seen to have pulled on that blue shirt (never saw Kinkladze play live, I imagine he might be in that conversation).
I'm sad about it, but not bowing out, as long as I'm breathing, and mobile. Will revert to matchday membership, and get over as and when finances permit.
There you have it…
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Lovely post where your passion for the club really shines through.

Life has difficult choices for us all at times. I often look at those that have moved abroad, or even just darn sarf, with a high degree of jealousy of the experiences and opportunities they have had and continue to do so. That could have been me but family commitments have kept me local and now it’s too late probably. If my kids came to me now for advice on moving abroad I would say “go for it”. Not that I hate the UK, far from it, just the miserable weather December to March. Being near City is definitely one of the high points of living here though.

Good luck in your matchday journey and the mad scramble for tickets in July.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
The new ruling on attendance of ten games minimum changes the game radically for me. Let me explain: I fly in from abroad to attend games. Deliberately, ever since I acquired it (in the big window that was opened in 2015, if I remember rightly, anyway, that coincided with the opening of the third level of the south stand), I have never chosen to sit down and calculate the cost of any given match. It is certified insanity to have done it, and I simply didn't want to know. Put it this way, it is two or three hundred pounds a match — completely nuts, eh? And that's if I'm lucky enough to be put up for a night or two by friends. Given that I am not a retired futures trader or some such, but just a retired teacher, you will easily understand that I've had to pick and choose my matches and space them out (and don't imagine that I only went to marquee matches like the dippers, Chelsea, and rags).
Let me add, immediately and forcefully, that that seat is never empty. That is an unnegotiable point of principle. Not once this season has it been empty.(On Friday it will not be empty). Oh, and it's not some tourist from Canada or Seoul sitting in it. It is one of two lifelong blues like myself, in the Friends/Family category.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining. I do not claim to have held a season ticket for twenty or thirty years running. I do not claim to have ever had a season since ’68 when I attended every single match home and away. I've been a City supporter since I was thirteen years old, and I've gone as and when I could. Since I haven't lived in England since 1978 that's severely limited it, as you can well imagine. The coming of the low-cost airlines made it possible for me to attend again (I have qualms about my carbon footprint, but that's another matter!).
I was not at Wembley in ’99, although I'd love to have been, and was not in the stadium for 93.20. That's normal, why should I have been given a ticket? (I did, believe it or not, fly in to Manchester just to be in the town and in a bar full of blues on that day, to be, in short, with my “tribe” on that day of days — that morning I went for a pilgrimage walk right across Moss Side, took about an hour and a half, just for the memories — I felt a deep sense of melancholy at the site of the old Maine Road, which has been a housing estate for years since the demolition, of course).
I've had a great run — although I did not witness May 2012 directly, I was there on that rainy night against Villa in 2014 when Yaya scored a goal the memory of which I'll take to my dying day. I was there again against Villa for that mad fifteen minutes three years ago. That also, I shall never, ever forget. It was the next best thing to having been at Wembley in ’99, or the Etihad on 13 May, 2012. I was also there for West Ham a year ago to see us clinch an unheard-of four in a row. I was also privileged to have a seat up in the gods at Wembley to see us smash Watford and complete an unheard-of domestic treble. And above all, I was privileged to have a seat up in the gods to see us beat the rags two years ago, put them right in their place, on our way to an almost unheard-of European treble.
I'll be the last in the queue, but if I can, I'd like one last hurrah at Wembley against Palace (although my finances really don't permit it). Failing that, I'll be over for sure for Bournemouth, if only to say goodbye to a Belgian who, after King Colin and Merlin, is the greatest player I've seen to have pulled on that blue shirt (never saw Kinkladze play live, I imagine he might be in that conversation).
I'm sad about it, but not bowing out, as long as I'm breathing, and mobile. Will revert to matchday membership, and get over as and when finances permit.
There you have it…
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I'm in a similar position. I'm renewing and it will be touch and go if I do ten next season. If I don't at least I have Pep's last season as a season ticket holder. Things change. In a years time they may well be trying to cling on to every season ticket holder as long as their seat isn't left empty.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
I'm in a similar position. I'm renewing and it will be touch and go if I do ten next season. If I don't at least I have Pep's last season as a season ticket holder. Things change. In a years time they may well be trying to cling on to every season ticket holder as long as their seat isn't left empty.
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Hmmm… you've got me thinking again, Saddleworth. As Auda says in Lawrence of Arabia: “You trouble me — like women.”
Problem is, I can't stump up the sum alone (no, not even on the concessionary rate). The cost is shared between myself and the two Friends/Family. If I can't attend the ten games (and I can't, that's for sure) then I imagine their software will just block it being transferred. Then everybody's left high and dry.
But you might be right about them moving the goal posts again a year up the road. I think they're fishing around to see what people will put up with. They'd obviously like more Flexi Gold holders as opposed to straight Gold season ticket holders, because they win both ways then: they get your £150 for the simple right to be in the scheme, and if you only go to five games or so on it — which you pay for above and beyond — well, they sell the rest at top whack to tour organisers getting people from Alberta, Perth or Rangoon. From a purely accounting position it makes sense. Even if it screws over loyal supporters who've been going for decades (I don't count myself in that, by the way, as I hope I've made clear).
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Hmmm… you've got me thinking again, Saddleworth. As Auda says in Lawrence of Arabia: “You trouble me — like women.”
Problem is, I can't stump up the sum alone (no, not even on the concessionary rate). The cost is shared between myself and the two Friends/Family. If I can't attend the ten games (and I can't, that's for sure) then I imagine their software will just block it being transferred. Then everybody's left high and dry.
But you might be right about them moving the goal posts again a year up the road. I think they're fishing around to see what people will put up with. They'd obviously like more Flexi Gold holders as opposed to straight Gold season ticket holders, because they win both ways then: they get your £150 for the simple right to be in the scheme, and if you only go to five games or so on it — which you pay for above and beyond — well, they sell the rest at top whack to tour organisers getting people from Alberta, Perth or Rangoon. From a purely accounting position it makes sense. Even if it screws over loyal supporters who've been going for decades (I don't count myself in that, by the way, as I hope I've made clear).
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Maybe I’m missing something. Why would they block you transferring your ticket? There is nothing about that in any of the recent comms. My assumption is that you could still put it on the exchange and then refund your chums. The crunch will come at renewal time surely. Then the club has a decision to make. Let you renew for a guaranteed income or put your seat on the market where there are no guarantees of selling it for less ‘glamorous’ games. When the new stand opens we shall see (and so will the club). This policy is ill thought through and imo will be reversed when they understand the consequences. Hope you make the right decision mate whichever way you go. What I do know though is once you have given it up you won’t get it back.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
The new ruling on attendance of ten games minimum changes the game radically for me. Let me explain: I fly in from abroad to attend games. Deliberately, ever since I acquired it (in the big window that was opened in 2015, if I remember rightly, anyway, that coincided with the opening of the third level of the south stand), I have never chosen to sit down and calculate the cost of any given match. It is certified insanity to have done it, and I simply didn't want to know. Put it this way, it is two or three hundred pounds a match — completely nuts, eh? And that's if I'm lucky enough to be put up for a night or two by friends. Given that I am not a retired futures trader or some such, but just a retired teacher, you will easily understand that I've had to pick and choose my matches and space them out (and don't imagine that I only went to marquee matches like the dippers, Chelsea, and rags).
Let me add, immediately and forcefully, that that seat is never empty. That is an unnegotiable point of principle. Not once this season has it been empty.(On Friday it will not be empty). Oh, and it's not some tourist from Canada or Seoul sitting in it. It is one of two lifelong blues like myself, in the Friends/Family category.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining. I do not claim to have held a season ticket for twenty or thirty years running. I do not claim to have ever had a season since ’68 when I attended every single match home and away. I've been a City supporter since I was thirteen years old, and I've gone as and when I could. Since I haven't lived in England since 1978 that's severely limited it, as you can well imagine. The coming of the low-cost airlines made it possible for me to attend again (I have qualms about my carbon footprint, but that's another matter!).
I was not at Wembley in ’99, although I'd love to have been, and was not in the stadium for 93.20. That's normal, why should I have been given a ticket? (I did, believe it or not, fly in to Manchester just to be in the town and in a bar full of blues on that day, to be, in short, with my “tribe” on that day of days — that morning I went for a pilgrimage walk right across Moss Side, took about an hour and a half, just for the memories — I felt a deep sense of melancholy at the site of the old Maine Road, which has been a housing estate for years since the demolition, of course).
I've had a great run — although I did not witness May 2012 directly, I was there on that rainy night against Villa in 2014 when Yaya scored a goal the memory of which I'll take to my dying day. I was there again against Villa for that mad fifteen minutes three years ago. That also, I shall never, ever forget. It was the next best thing to having been at Wembley in ’99, or the Etihad on 13 May, 2012. I was also there for West Ham a year ago to see us clinch an unheard-of four in a row. I was also privileged to have a seat up in the gods at Wembley to see us smash Watford and complete an unheard-of domestic treble. And above all, I was privileged to have a seat up in the gods to see us beat the rags two years ago, put them right in their place, on our way to an almost unheard-of European treble.
I'll be the last in the queue, but if I can, I'd like one last hurrah at Wembley against Palace (although my finances really don't permit it). Failing that, I'll be over for sure for Bournemouth, if only to say goodbye to a Belgian who, after King Colin and Merlin, is the greatest player I've seen to have pulled on that blue shirt (never saw Kinkladze play live, I imagine he might be in that conversation).
I'm sad about it, but not bowing out, as long as I'm breathing, and mobile. Will revert to matchday membership, and get over as and when finances permit.
There you have it…
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I totally get that, I am in a similar boat, I dont live in the UK and the cost of making every game is quite tough esp with a young family in my case. My seat has never gone empty either(i have given it away free many times here or on mancityfans.net to ensure someone is in it). In my case i renewed and will see how the season goes but there is a good chance I wont do the 10 games. I would rather city forced my hand than make a decision to give up my seat, they can take it off me but i wont give it up. My point above is these are hard to get, dont make any hasty decisions, you could easily renew and sell it off to someone for face value for the season and then make a decision next season when circumstances might have changed.
 
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