Seat Counters - 2023/24

I agree on the off putting ticket prices JRB. The tickets also seem to have got more difficult to transfer for recent home games, that’s making it harder to pick up / pass on below face value tickets.

Yes saying tickets are too expensive for some of our fans wouldn’t do any harm.

It would have been good to have got a home Cup Draw so they more affordable tickets could be available.
How have they got more difficult to transfer? Transferee just needs to have an active membership number. It's free and no reason for any fan not to have one. I had to transfer my lads as he can't do school night games, mates taking his lad instead. So he got a membership, I added to friends and family and passed over the ticket. E-mail to my mate from the club and added to his wallet. It took about 10 minutes. Selling via a Facebook site is a bit different as often a stranger, but as they could tout it on I wouldn't use those sites anyway.
 
I accept all of that. There will be a large increase in match day revenue. But I don’t believe that will effect or lower match day ticket prices. It will just add more match day revenue on top of high ticket prices, which could be even higher in 2 years time when the NS opens. It’s possible that we could see a £100 match day ticket in the future.
I hope they see sense. It would be so easy to ringfence some of the broadcast money to subsidise tickets for all fans. Fans in the stadium are essential for the TV experience. Perhaps it will happen if an independent regulator comes in. No chance with the current PL leadership. It would be a vote-winner to help matchgoing fans. The current FFP rules force clubs to maximise gate receipts. Are the Football Supporters Association doing enough? Could money used to reduce ticket prices be exempt from FFP rules like infrastructure plans are? Why not ask sponsors to subsidise match tickets? A very good branding opportunity. Clubs are not being creative enough.
 
City don’t want you to do that mate. ;-)

They want City fans to use the OS ticket page. And most City fans who don’t know about BM or don’t read BM will, even though they are paying twice as much for a ticket.
100%. I set up a WhatsApp group with those around me so we can sell between ourselves at face value. Ticket Exchange is a last resort.
 
Of course the demand is there for the big games, it always will be, as I've admitted. But for the less popular bread and butter games, especially midweek games, the demand clearly isn't there. Demand is there because of Pep and his brilliant trophy winning teams. Let's see if that demand is still there when that sadly tails off. I don't think it will be. Regardless of demand for tickets which has remained steady this season as a whole, ticket prices are still too high. Of course City won't see it like that. They will see tickets still selling out at high prices, so what they are doing is justified in their eyes, ie, driving match day revenue successfully.

It is. That’s why we’re expanding the stadium. That’s why we sell out a charity shield a month before it happens. Why we sell out vs Huddersfield Town. Why we sell out CL group games against less known opposition. Why we’re selling more memberships than ever before.

The empty seats you see would be there if the stadium held 40000 or 100,000. We’d have never have expanded the south stand based on your own logic since the empties were there pre-2015.

You also were claiming Huddersfield didn’t sell out because you saw a few empties in the 93:20 section. I just don’t think you understand why they might be there so default to ‘it’s not sold out’.

Of course tickets are too expensive but for the club they won’t be bothered (sadly) since they’re selling 99% of the tickets they put out and now with additional memberships.
 
There's a bit of a whiff around that. Up until 2 or 3 days ago hardly any had shifted out of that section and there were still around 1300 seats showing. Then about 400 disappeared off the planner over the weekend. Now another 800 or so have disappeared. Not a chance they're all down to people logging on and buying because the movement of tickets elsewhere is nowhere near as pronounced. I'm not saying those seats in question won't be filled on Wednesday but it looks like the club have offloaded them somewhere.
They give them to schools and community groups at very cheap group rates which is fair enough. I am not defending the high prices but I am glad if they to go to kids etc. They are fans for the future.
 
I agree on the off putting ticket prices JRB. The tickets also seem to have got more difficult to transfer for recent home games, that’s making it harder to pick up / pass on below face value tickets.

Yes saying tickets are too expensive for some of our fans wouldn’t do any harm.

It would have been good to have got a home Cup Draw so they more affordable tickets could be available.

How have they got more difficult to transfer? Transferee just needs to have an active membership number. It's free and no reason for any fan not to have one. I had to transfer my lads as he can't do school night games, mates taking his lad instead. So he got a membership, I added to friends and family and passed over the ticket. E-mail to my mate from the club and added to his wallet. It took about 10 minutes. Selling via a Facebook site is a bit different as often a stranger, but as they could tout it on I wouldn't use those sites anyway.
The transferee doesn’t even need a membership number. My son is away on Wednesday so I got him to transfer his ticket to me as a mobile ticket then emailed it to my nephew who hasn’t got a membership. The fact I already have a ticket doesn’t prevent that being done.
 
How have they got more difficult to transfer? Transferee just needs to have an active membership number. It's free and no reason for any fan not to have one. I had to transfer my lads as he can't do school night games, mates taking his lad instead. So he got a membership, I added to friends and family and passed over the ticket. E-mail to my mate from the club and added to his wallet. It took about 10 minutes. Selling via a Facebook site is a bit different as often a stranger, but as they could tout it on I wouldn't use those sites anyway.
Match tickets bought from City for a particular game seem to have got more difficult to transfer (as opposed to season cards). I know the Club doesn’t really want individual match tickets to be transferred so it’s more hassle when you ring up the Club. That said, I find the staff helpful but they seem to have to get supervisor approval now. I gave up trying to transfer a ticket a few home games back.
 
The transferee doesn’t even need a membership number. My son is away on Wednesday so I got him to transfer his ticket to me as a mobile ticket then emailed it to my nephew who hasn’t got a membership. The fact I already have a ticket doesn’t prevent that being done.
So is he a season card holder?
 
My son is but my nephew isn’t.
You’ve answered the wrong question I’m afraid. I was talking about individual match tickets bought for a game that the club used to be more helpful with.

Yes I agree with you on transferring season card tickets. Very straightforward in the main
 
You’ve answered the wrong question I’m afraid. I was talking about individual match tickets bought for a game that the club used to be more helpful with.

Yes I agree with you on transferring season card tickets. Very straightforward in the main
Wouldn’t an individual match ticket be an emailed mobile ticket or a emailed print at home that could just be forwarded to someone else? Or am I missing something?
 
It is. That’s why we’re expanding the stadium. That’s why we sell out a charity shield a month before it happens. Why we sell out vs Huddersfield Town. Why we sell out CL group games against less known opposition. Why we’re selling more memberships than ever before.

The empty seats you see would be there if the stadium held 40000 or 100,000. We’d have never have expanded the south stand based on your own logic since the empties were there pre-2015.

You also were claiming Huddersfield didn’t sell out because you saw a few empties in the 93:20 section. I just don’t think you understand why they might be there so default to ‘it’s not sold out’.

Of course tickets are too expensive but for the club they won’t be bothered (sadly) since they’re selling 99% of the tickets they put out and now with additional memberships.

You’re fishing again Hello City. It’s like anyone who has a different opinion to you is wrong. I’m entitled to my opinions, just as you are entitled to your opinions. I’ve got used to you sticking up for the club no matter what. That’s your choice. I see things differently at times.

You can throw as many positives at it as you want, but at the end of the day there are still loads of tickets left for Burnley, which is mainly due to the expensive cost of the tickets, and this when Pep is our manager, and City are the best football team in the world. God forbid what the attendance would be against Burnley with the Etihad expanded, Pep has left, and the team is struggling. If we have so many fans, so many new fans locally and nationally, along with football tourists, Burnely should be selling sold out. It hasn’t yet. Still 2 days to go until the match

1 more point before it ends up in trench warfare again and drags on.

I didn’t see a ‘few empty seats’ against Huddersfield, so don’t put words into my mouth, whatever a few empty seats amount to in your opinion, I saw loads of empty seats against Huddersfield all over the ground looking from ESL3. A match with cheap individual and family tickets, played early Sunday afternoon, on a nice day weather wise. A perfect scenario for every seat being sold and ‘OCCUPIED’. If I could be arsed I’d post the pictures again that I took, but I can’t be arsed.

Let’s see if Burnley does sell out or not. And how many empty seats there are at the match, just out of interest and nothing else.
 
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With so many seats still available, would be great if the club took a sizeable chunk of them off sale and given to local schools for kids/parents/staff to attend.

I have no idea if this already happens but would make sense over having empty seats.
 
Being delivered tomorrow according to email just received
Just got that email myself.

My son just pointed out to me that they might have had to wait to post the tickets until the date of the game was confirmed, as they wouldn't want the wrong date to be printed on the tickets.

Hopefully left themselves enough time to get them all sent out by Friday
 
Been trying to get some tickets for non members ( who I’ve managed to get them tickets for numerous games) for Copenhagen at home. Contacted City to see when they would be available, or if Season ticket holders will be able to buy extra tickets at some point.
They said they had no plans to do this. Looking at the seat planner there’s loads left to sell
 
Wouldn’t an individual match ticket be an emailed mobile ticket or a emailed print at home that could just be forwarded to someone else? Or am I missing something?
Yes I agree that works sometimes mate. I’ve had the issue of buying tickets for people who say they can no longer go (odd occasion). They’ve downloaded the ticket and I’ve had to go through Supporters Services to get the ticket forwarded on. Obviously, I could keep chasing the person who originally ordered the ticket.

The other issue that’s less flexible and I agree everyone should have a Supporters number etc is people who’ve found they can’t go late in the day and offer up their ticket as a screen shot. They should be able to use the ticket transfer system but some can’t. I’d like to give those tickets away but had to bin it for one game.
 
Been trying to get some tickets for non members ( who I’ve managed to get them tickets for numerous games) for Copenhagen at home. Contacted City to see when they would be available, or if Season ticket holders will be able to buy extra tickets at some point.
They said they had no plans to do this. Looking at the seat planner there’s loads left to sell
The staff won't know the plans are, if the sales are slow they will:

"Man City v Young Boys
Etihad Stadium

Tuesday 7th November, 8pm

All Season Ticket Members, Cityzens Matchday and Cityzens Junior Members can now purchase an additional 2 tickets (3 tickets total)."

That was only 5 days before the game though, same for Red Star 8 days before.
 

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