Should City Follow West Ham and Reduce Season Ticket Prices

[terraloon]

Re: Should City Follow West Ham and Reduce Season Ticket Pri

The first thing is that at this point in time it is not a given that they will be in the PL for season 2016/17

The second thing is that there are rumblings that there is a potential issue around the process and indeed the rent that they will be paying at the new stadium . It seems that just as night follows day any reduction in season ticket prices will lead to the claim that their charges have come about through state aid

i read somewhere that the general view is that in London if clubs want to increase income at their stadiums the way to do it is to limit the number of season tickets as football tourists pay more for their tickets, eat and drink more at the stadiums and spend a lot more at the club shops

I am a season ticket holder at Chelsea and my ticket costs £900 I sit right on halfway 29 rows back so the view is excellent The cost hasn't risen for 4 years. It's still a lot of money as it equates to £48 a game however we don't have to buy tickets for cup games etc so yes I wish It were cheaper but at the end of the day I have the option of not paying.

As an aside I am off to Arsenal on Sunday and have paid £64 for a ticket. The highest I have ever paid to watch a game of football.

 

[marco]

Re: Should City Follow West Ham and Reduce Season Ticket Pri

i think just over £700 at city is not to bad but its still a strain on the household budget with the cost of living etc, but at city we do have an aging support,the majority of fans are in the 35-55 bracket and we need to do more to get the teenagers back, the club are engaged with the fans to create atmosphere but i think they have totally messed up with there pricing structure, for eg if i had kept my seat for next season and paid over £700 just two rows in front of me the seat is half that price (new front 3 rows) and the seat to my left in the next block is £100 cheaper 'how can that be, its within a one metre radius' i think what city should have done is to have shifted the away fans into 109/110/111 and above 'like at arsenal' and have had a singing end and all complete 3 tiers at £300 then they could have increased the corporate capacity on level 2

 

[jonmcity]

Re: Should City Follow West Ham and Reduce Season Ticket Pri

I would love to see £25 tickets for adults and £10 for concessions in a 100K stadium. Wont happen though

 

[supercity88]

Re: Should City Follow West Ham and Reduce Season Ticket Pri

I've been trying to kid myself for a long time on this. It's time to accept that the club doesn't really care about its loyal fans at all. When we brought Ferran to the club we hired someone that turned Barca into a global force that had an extremely high revenue. Barcelona became a tourist attraction and the club lapped it up. The fans of clubs at the top in La Liga are wired differently anyway. They want to win and they aren't too concerned by the atmosphere etc. Football over there is about having a meal and a few drinks and then watching a game that entertains.

Had we brought in someone with connections to the Bundesliga then I'd expect things to be different. Football in this country is about community. It's about coming together and feeling a part of something. Singing songs, having a few drinks and then having a few more. The result is important but the day out more so. The club should rip off tourists and make money from those that have it. Tickets should be cheap for the majority. We may have the cheapest season tickets but there aren't very many of them. The best thing about that West Ham pricing is that they've recognised they need to make it accessible for families. Get the next generation of fans in and allow families to watch games together rather than price them out whilst they make a mint from tv.

 

[Dynamo11]

Re: Should City Follow West Ham and Reduce Season Ticket Pri

My season ticket did go down though, incidentally West Ham did this not just because of the new TV money but because of the move to a larger stadium. There's a reason all the new season tickets for the expansion are mostly on the cheap end. If we moved to a 100,000 seater then tickets could be priced cheaper because there'd be less of a demand and higher gates to make up the shortfall

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

Re: Should City Follow West Ham and Reduce Season Ticket Pri

Not a chance a reduction will happen. A price freeze as a token gesture next season before another few hikes is my prediction. The club couldn't care less about long standing fans no matter how much some want to believe it.

Just posted this on another thread. It is relevant here as well.

As part of the stadium expansion, City have introduced c4500 season tickets in the price range £290-£380.

Looking at the stadium as a whole there are now 178 sections of which 37 are for the new seats (incredible value) and 43 sections where the price is the same or lower than last season. 56 of the remaining 98 sections show price increases of no more than £20 from last season.

Playing devil's advocate, is your solution to keep moving further back to worse seats to keep it 'affordable'?

Or to the front 3 rows at pitchside :)

Yep, I accept the cheaper seats are not the best. Having said that the thing that has really surprised me with the relocation is that everyone bangs on about cost YET the £299s are still available. So is view more important than cost?

The £380 seats are effectively all gone, presumably the view is good, yet even then it took a few days for them to shift.

 

[dubblue]

Re: Should City Follow West Ham and Reduce Season Ticket Pri

Not a chance a reduction will happen. A price freeze as a token gesture next season before another few hikes is my prediction. The club couldn't care less about long standing fans no matter how much some want to believe it.

you really have got no idea.

in answer to the op yes we should reduce the prices. missed a big PR moment here city.

Bizarre first line.

That aside the increases over the last 4/5 years have been disgraceful.

 

[Bill]

Re: Should City Follow West Ham and Reduce Season Ticket Pri

The first thing is that at this point in time it is not a given that they will be in the PL for season 2016/17

The second thing is that there are rumblings that there is a potential issue around the process and indeed the rent that they will be paying at the new stadium . It seems that just as night follows day any reduction in season ticket prices will lead to the claim that their charges have come about through state aid

i read somewhere that the general view is that in London if clubs want to increase income at their stadiums the way to do it is to limit the number of season tickets as football tourists pay more for their tickets, eat and drink more at the stadiums and spend a lot more at the club shops

I am a season ticket holder at Chelsea and my ticket costs £900 I sit right on halfway 29 rows back so the view is excellent The cost hasn't risen for 4 years. It's still a lot of money as it equates to £48 a game however we don't have to buy tickets for cup games etc so yes I wish It were cheaper but at the end of the day I have the option of not paying.

As an aside I am off to Arsenal on Sunday and have paid £64 for a ticket. The highest I have ever paid to watch a game of football.

I think you've been lucky. barca away was 74 quid, I think ajax away was the same. its getting stupid now. I was sorely tempted to sell my barca ticket as the view is shit and in reality I was only there for the crac.

 

[Dodge]

Re: Should City Follow West Ham and Reduce Season Ticket Pri

Anyone who thinks this is an act of benevolence by the Baroness and the Porn King are sadly mistaken.

 

[Blue Theatre]

Re: Should City Follow West Ham and Reduce Season Ticket Pri

I don't think the West Ham deal is as good as they're trying to portray it ... all they are saying is that when they move to a massive new stadium and have to find 20,000 more fans overnight, then they'll make some seats cheaper. Bit of a no-brainer.
In the meantime, they're actually increasing their prices.

Also, currently their cheapest seats are over £600 when ours are £299. And we're watching Sergio and David Silva when they are watching Andy Carroll and Mark Noble.

However, I do think that getting the next generation coming into your ground is vital to the future, so City should be selling children's seasoncards and matchday tickets as cheaply as possible, even 'at a loss' ... because it will reap dividends later when those children support City for the next 60 years, and their children, and their children's children, etc.