Seat Counters - 2024/25

[Tim of the Oak]

Hilariously you can buy two tickets on the tout sites for Forest for £27 each, plus their scalper's fee, so £70 in total, in block 322. City are charging £106 for 2 tickets in the same block. The mind boggles.
Looks like they're giving tickets to the touts very heavily discounted, but charging fans the full whack on the offical site.
A reckoning is coming for the club's ticketing tactics...and that's not bad thing.

Blues can just go on the Face Value ticket pages and get tickets sold by fellow Blues for less than the Club charges. Thousands of tickets are resold via this route for most games and particularly midweek matches.

 

[Prophet of Doom]

Hilariously you can buy two tickets on the tout sites for Forest for £27 each, plus their scalper's fee, so £70 in total, in block 322. City are charging £106 for 2 tickets in the same block. The mind boggles.
Looks like they're giving tickets to the touts very heavily discounted, but charging fans the full whack on the offical site.
A reckoning is coming for the club's ticketing tactics...and that's not bad thing.

Ahhh but Prestwich Blue is adamant that the tickets on Livefootball don’t come from City !!! Hahaha

Absolute bollocks of course. City are balls deep with these touts. Good little business model - outsource the tickets, get huge mark up on ticket revenue, and don’t get heat from supporters for charging silly money cause it’s a mystery ticket agent selling them.

Except there’s a bit of problem when the lack of engagement with supporters and the team turning shit kills demand.

The consequence is thousands of tickets appearing back on the clubs ticket site unsold the week before the game.

Shambles.

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

Website won't let me but an additional ticket even though it says season ticket holders can buy up to 3 , just keeps saying I have too many tickets allocated to me, called the club and there is no one available, so can't actually buy one even though I want to.

For the Forest game? I just checked and it’s letting me buy up to 3 extra. Don’t mean to sound pedantic but are you definitely logged in to your account?

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

Brentford up.

Brentford v Man City - Ticket Information 24/25

Brentford v Man City - Ticket Information 24/25

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Another away game which seems to be tourists galore. After Liverpool and united, I'd argue Brentford is the worst.

Probably due to the small allocation and the fact that it's in London

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

Ahhh but Prestwich Blue is adamant that the tickets on Livefootball don’t come from City !!! Hahaha

Absolute bollocks of course. City are balls deep with these touts. Good little business model - outsource the tickets, get huge mark up on ticket revenue, and don’t get heat from supporters for charging silly money cause it’s a mystery ticket agent selling them.

Except there’s a bit of problem when the lack of engagement with supporters and the team turning shit kills demand.

The consequence is thousands of tickets appearing back on the clubs ticket site unsold the week before the game.

Shambles.

Agree that they definitely do this, but I don't understand how this is legal, as surly that means they're selling away tickets for more than £30?

Why would they be daft enough to do that just for a few extra quid!

 

[Beaker]

Blues can just go on the Face Value ticket pages and get tickets sold by fellow Blues for less than the Club charges. Thousands of tickets are resold via this route for most games and particularly midweek matches.

That’s all well and good but a lot of blues don’t know about these sites. They log on the website, see the extortionate prices and log back off. There are 3,500 tickets, it will probably be more by the time the game is played, that will get left unsold. For a club of the stature that ours has become, that is farcical. The club have fucked up ticketing royally.

I think heads should roll.

 

[uwerosler28]

For the Forest game? I just checked and it’s letting me buy up to 3 extra. Don’t mean to sound pedantic but are you definitely logged in to your account?

Yes mate, rang the club and they also have no idea why the system won't let me and also can't push it through their side so I am awaiting a call back once they have spoken to the " systems team". I expect the seat I need next to mine will be gone by the time they sort it.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

That’s all well and good but a lot of blues don’t know about these sites. They log on the website, see the extortionate prices and log back off. There are 3,500 tickets, it will probably be more by the time the game is played, that will get left unsold. For a club of the stature that ours has become, that is farcical. The club have fucked up ticketing royally.

I think heads should roll.

I reckon the crowd could be under 45k. As discussed many times, it will be due to many causes including affordability and transport problems but the media will report it as Blues deserting the sinking ship.

 

[There is a Light]

Agree that they definitely do this, but I don't understand how this is legal, as surly that means they're selling away tickets for more than £30?

Why would they be daft enough to do that just for a few extra quid!

The Away Supporters Initiative isn’t law, it’s an agreement made by clubs to sell at same price. The cap is due to be reviewed next year, I can see it going up to at least £40.

 

[There is a Light]

I reckon the crowd could be under 45k. As discussed many times, it will be due to many causes including affordability and transport problems but the media will report it as Blues deserting the sinking ship.

Being honest, if I was on the fence about this one, I would be making the extra effort to get there. They need our backing and Forest are a decent team who’ll fancy their chances given our recent form. Certain fanbases will also be queuing up to say we’re deserting our team as well no doubt, I’m surprised we didn’t hear that after Feyenoord.