Seat Counters - 2024/25

Gray said:
Boycott level 2.
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Fans have been doing that for years. I believe that the Level 2 allocation was originally part of the Club Wembley Hospitality scheme but that has shrunk over the years.

My seat is in the front row of L5 immediately above level 2 and I paid £125. I don't mind paying £125 for a final seat but that is because I have been brainwashed. We have sleepwalked into a world where clubs routinely charge £70 plus for match-day seats.

Fan should push for a cap on pricing for domestic games including finals through the new regulator.
 
fathellensbellend said:
The allocation has increased slightly again, those prices are shameful, shame it's too late I would chuck in a tenner on a just giving to help others get down there for an affordable price, I always want the best for City always want our stadium/end packed out but 285 notes, ridiculous
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Someone could donate 10 grand and it would still only buy 35 tickets - absolutely disgusting pricing. For once in a lifetime like a CL final perhaps, but they’re really taking the piss for a domestic cup final. If this is the way it’s going to be we really best get used to Wembley allocations not selling.
 
fathellensbellend said:
The prices are poverty shaming, as a fan of you are priced out of the showpiece events what's the point, I bet there are loads hovering over the tickets and cannot justify it, the club should be stepping in, it makes me angry, despicable from the FA
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Is it not too late for City to take a chunk of those Level 2 tickets for the players and families, and swap them for some of the cheaper ones they’ve allocated to them? Even if they’ve got £175 tickets currently for the players and families, it’s still better to get them on sale to fans than the £255/£285 tickets.
 
johnevans said:
Your mention of your 6 year old and the cost of modern day tickets reminded me of this, my most treasured City possession, which I've had for more than 60 years now.

I went to that game in the p*ssing rain with The Old Man and my uncles, standing on the windswept Scoreboard End as we lost to The Robins 2-1 (Mike Summerbee scored for them) in front of our lowest ever Maine Road crowd of 8015.

Some 30 years before in 1934, my Dad and uncles also stood on the Scoreboard End as part of the highest ever crowd in England (84000+) to watch City beat Stoke (including the 17 year old 'wunderkind' Stanley Matthews) on the way to winning our 2nd FA Cup. My Dad then left early with his pal Jimmy Mylchreest to pick up their Manchester Chronicle 'Football Greens' at the Boundary Lane press works to sell the football results to the departing crowd on Lloyd Street!

Their Dad (my Grandad) followed City at Hyde Road from the moment he arrived in Manchester from N Wales looking for work, having lost his job as a miner at the Point of Ayr colliery.

My kids and Grandkids have had the 'City gene' passed onto them too.

All that support down the years, all those links in our family to the ups and downs of our club, turning up no matter how good or bad we (and the weather!) might be!

I know times/the economy/life has moved on (improved?!) from the days when my Grandad first came to Manchester. But the prices for Wembley, the new stand/season ticket issue and the like are throwing up things that are not only testing the loyalty of City fans (and, of course, those loyal supporters of every other club up and down the country too) but also in danger of causing generational links with the club(s) to be cut.

My wife and I have got our tickets for next Saturday at Wembley. Like you with your child, I'd love to take my Grandkids along with us.. but those prices are ridiculous. The clubs and authorities want us there in the grounds as the backdrop to the product they so lucratively sell to TV audiences around the world, yet they barely give thought to OUR needs as supporters of our clubs, whether it's pricing, kick-off times, travel requirements or whatever..

This is what the FA, City and all the other clubs are messing about with right now. My advice would be to think carefully about what you do, boards of management and footballing authorities.. otherwise you risk having our football heritage not being passed on from one generation to the next..
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Lovely stories mate and so true.

What is particularly shameful is that the FA Cup revenue is shite compared to the PL and CL. It can't compete at all. But it has a long and prestigious history and is losing its appeal.

City do the right thing with low prices for home games against lower league opposition. The chance for fans to pass on those memories to their kids. Making a final was just a dream when I was a kid. Those families who took their kids to the Salford game should have the opportunity to now go to the final which is something they'll never forget, especially if we win! As others have said, the club should at least have syphoned the most expensive to players/staff so more cheaper seats were available.

Prices need to be much less in general but a £10-20 discount on tickets at the top end is absurd. Maybe an adult might bite the bullet and fork out £250 but not when their kid(s) cost nearly the same again! I've got three kids, I've taken my daughter before too but as she's not that interested she doesn't even enter my thinking on this which is also a real shame. If I did buy for my lad, I'd still have to deal with letting her down as well! And my youngest boy is 3 so I better start saving now.
 
dickie davies said:
Decisions decisions
Should I take my wife and two kids to the cup final at £250 each a ticket, or watch it on telly and book a week holiday somewhere!
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Im taking my lad for the first time and mrs is coming too. Luckily got some cheaper tickets otherwise like you say it’s a few days away somewhere. Footballs gone mental and I hope the bubble bursts sooner rather than later. Maybe if people stopped point scoring over empty seats and questioned why they’re empty we might actually get somewhere..
 
dickie davies said:
Decisions decisions
Should I take my wife and two kids to the cup final at £250 each a ticket, or watch it on telly and book a week holiday somewhere!
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I buckled and went for a £125 ticket (plus £45 for a coach seat) but you're absolutely spot on.

6 FA Cup Finals in 15 Seasons but this was the nearest that I've been to not bothering.
 
There’s no way the FA could ever justify those kids prices, they’re a disgrace, I can’t believe there’s not been a campaign calling them out from the off. City need to step in and subsidise a family ticket, which would highlight the issue, but they’re more afraid they’ll be looking in the mirror
 
Marvin. said:
Fans have been doing that for years. I believe that the Level 2 allocation was originally part of the Club Wembley Hospitality scheme but that has shrunk over the years.

My seat is in the front row of L5 immediately above level 2 and I paid £125. I don't mind paying £125 for a final seat but that is because I have been brainwashed. We have sleepwalked into a world where clubs routinely charge £70 plus for match-day seats.

Fan should push for a cap on pricing for domestic games including finals through the new regulator.
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Maybe read the current bill, they will have zero powers to do so.
 
supercity88 said:
Kids prices are ridiculous too. They shouldn't be knocking so little off for a kid from those higher priced seats - £10-20. As I said before, paying out so much for my 6 year old just isn't justifiable. There should be a cap.

A bit like with City's lack of new season tickets, the FA Cup will die if the next generation aren't coming and watching it. Compared to the prestige it had when I was young it's already declined considerably. If they capped an U18 ticket anywhere in the ground or if bought with an adult ticket that would help things shift too.
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I reckon Wembley/ FA, took a decision years ago that the cost and the hassle of monitoring who is using concession tickets just wasn’t worth it. So there answer was to make concession discounts so insignificant that it barely makes any difference to their profits, how many buy them.
 
johnevans said:
Your mention of your 6 year old and the cost of modern day tickets reminded me of this, my most treasured City possession, which I've had for more than 60 years now.

I went to that game in the p*ssing rain with The Old Man and my uncles, standing on the windswept Scoreboard End as we lost to The Robins 2-1 (Mike Summerbee scored for them) in front of our lowest ever Maine Road crowd of 8015.

Some 30 years before in 1934, my Dad and uncles also stood on the Scoreboard End as part of the highest ever crowd in England (84000+) to watch City beat Stoke (including the 17 year old 'wunderkind' Stanley Matthews) on the way to winning our 2nd FA Cup. My Dad then left early with his pal Jimmy Mylchreest to pick up their Manchester Chronicle 'Football Greens' at the Boundary Lane press works to sell the football results to the departing crowd on Lloyd Street!

Their Dad (my Grandad) followed City at Hyde Road from the moment he arrived in Manchester from N Wales looking for work, having lost his job as a miner at the Point of Ayr colliery.

My kids and Grandkids have had the 'City gene' passed onto them too.

All that support down the years, all those links in our family to the ups and downs of our club, turning up no matter how good or bad we (and the weather!) might be!

I know times/the economy/life has moved on (improved?!) from the days when my Grandad first came to Manchester. But the prices for Wembley, the new stand/season ticket issue and the like are throwing up things that are not only testing the loyalty of City fans (and, of course, those loyal supporters of every other club up and down the country too) but also in danger of causing generational links with the club(s) to be cut.

My wife and I have got our tickets for next Saturday at Wembley. Like you with your child, I'd love to take my Grandkids along with us.. but those prices are ridiculous. The clubs and authorities want us there in the grounds as the backdrop to the product they so lucratively sell to TV audiences around the world, yet they barely give thought to OUR needs as supporters of our clubs, whether it's pricing, kick-off times, travel requirements or whatever..

This is what the FA, City and all the other clubs are messing about with right now. My advice would be to think carefully about what you do, boards of management and footballing authorities.. otherwise you risk having our football heritage not being passed on from one generation to the next..
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Hope the FA moneybags corporate lawyers are reading your post about not taking the grandkids and hang their heads in shame. They should be running competitions to find families like yours and have them front and centre on telly on Final day to celebrate what supporting a club actually means to people.
 
Marvin. said:
Fans have been doing that for years. I believe that the Level 2 allocation was originally part of the Club Wembley Hospitality scheme but that has shrunk over the years.

My seat is in the front row of L5 immediately above level 2 and I paid £125. I don't mind paying £125 for a final seat but that is because I have been brainwashed. We have sleepwalked into a world where clubs routinely charge £70 plus for match-day seats.

Fan should push for a cap on pricing for domestic games including finals through the new regulator.
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That’s correct regarding Level 2. When the new Wembley opened in 2007 virtually all of Level 2 was sold as Club Wembley memberships to a combination of predominantly corporate clients along with a few wealthy private individuals. The memberships were for 10 years and covered pretty much all football at the stadium (England games, both domestic cup finals, FA Cup semi finals, playoff finals and Community Shield) as well as priority access to buying tickets for other events (NFL games, concerts etc). In the grand scheme of things, these were realistically priced and were a worthwhile purchase for someone with adequate disposable income. I’m guessing that was partly down to the FA needing a quick influx of cash to cover the spiralling costs of the stadium.
From memory though I’m happy to be corrected, Level 2 tickets weren’t part of club allocations for finals back then - I don’t recall them being available when we played Stoke and Wigan in the FA Cup or Sunderland in the League Cup final.
When the 10 year Club Wembley memberships came to an end in 2017, the prices for renewals were hiked by a lot and a considerable amount of members declined to renew. Since then those tickets have been sold on a match by match basis though the pricing definitely leaves a lot to be desired.
 
What is the current criteria for buying because I don't think I met the last one but it is allowing me to buy?
 
There is a Light said:
Someone could donate 10 grand and it would still only buy 35 tickets - absolutely disgusting pricing. For once in a lifetime like a CL final perhaps, but they’re really taking the piss for a domestic cup final. If this is the way it’s going to be we really best get used to Wembley allocations not selling.
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You would think the players would buy 1000 tickets (about 0.5 x days wage) between squad and means test applicants ..long standing St's oaps kids etc ..that would help
 
Marvin. said:
L1: 332
L5: 1
L2: 598 + 967

Total: 333 normal, 1565 L2 = 1898.

There is a good chance that the normal seating will sell out over the weekend leaving level 2 for Monday.
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I can't see that.
There seems to be real resistance to the £175 price, never mind the Level 2 prices.
Everyone eligible has had the ability to buy the £175s and not enough are prepared.
The Level 1s will go when they allow people to buy additional seats.
I am a ST holder living in London. I know two London Blues who are waiting for such so that I can buy tickets for them.
The £175 price, and even the Club Wembley price is less of an issue for them because they don't have logistics costs. (Lets face it - prices are just higher down here anyway).

I reckon by Tuesday, the £175s will all have gone and there might be some £250s and £285s left.

A potential 'good' thing to come out of this disgrace is Palace are struggling to shift their higher priced tickets. Their fans are in the same boat as the two people I mention.
If there are empty seats in both ends - concentrated in Level 2 - even the most one-eyed propagandist will see the issue is the prices.
The usual suspects will ignore this - but they are clowns who should be ignored anyway.
 
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