Ticket Prices

[jrb]

My season ticket in SSL1 works out at £35 a match. Not the cheapest, but certainly affordable for City fans looking for a match ticket if I couldn’t go or if I could’t be be arsed going.

 

[jrb]

Without season tickets I doubt we would get much over 20k charging £42+ for Brentford on a cold Tuesday evening.

It would be like when we charged £25 for Arsenal reserves in the league cup in 2004, which is £41 in real terms, and got 21k and loads pulled out the cup scheme on the back of it.

Are you being serious?

We wouldn’t get over 20,000 if season tickets were abolished and those seats were on open sale priced at previous season ticket prices. See above, £35!

 

[franksinatra]

And they can still do that. They just buy their seats as soon as they go on sale. The vast majority of fans will still get their seats each game.

The club could give current season ticket holders a 48 window to buy their seats first. After that they go on open sale. There are many ways this can be done.

How many times have people on here complained about season ticket holders seats being left empty because they were £299 and the season ticket holder couldn’t be arsed going to certain matches. There are 1000’s of City fans who would buy a seat at season ticket prices if they were on open sale.

They days of City rewarding loyalty are long over. Fans have been moved all over the stadium to make way for new hospitality areas. Away points have been abolished. Platinum and cup schemes have been introduced to drive revenue, not to reward loyalty. PL Season ticket holders pick and choose their cup schemes and cup matches.

All season tickets do is guarantee revenue before the start of the new season for the club, which is banked. Once the season starts the club doesn’t care if those season ticket seats are filled or not as the money is already in the bank.

I still think for me having more flexible purchasing options could be a possible would way forward.

There will be many blues buying season tickets knowing full well they cannot for example make most midweek games. Before events in life take over that is almost a guaranteed empty seats.

If you could load up your season ticket at the start of the season with the matches you can attend. It would hoghlight to the club those matches were less subscribed which could then be reflected in the ticket prices to reflect demand.

Further more you could also have more season ticket holders, by virtue of some will not want to go every match and therefore more availability of tickets.

If the club gave me the option I would drop the Season ticket for 19 matches and purchase a lesser number of games. As it stands the matches I cannot go appear on ticket exchange, at a ridiculous price, and dont sell.

 

[jrb]

I still think for me having more flexible purchasing options could be a possible would way forward.

There will be many blues buying season tickets knowing full well they cannot for example make most midweek games. Before events in life take over that is almost a guaranteed empty seats.

If you could load up your season ticket at the start of the season with the matches you can attend. It would hoghlight to the club those matches were less subscribed which could then be reflected in the ticket prices to reflect demand.

Further more you could also have more season ticket holders, by virtue of some will not want to go every match and therefore more availability of tickets.

If the club gave me the option I would drop the Season ticket for 19 matches and purchase a lesser number of games. As it stands the matches I cannot go appear on ticket exchange, at a ridiculous price, and dont sell.

TBH, like many City fans, I have missed matches due to work, ill health, personal issues, and I went through a brief phase of being disillusioned with football. Many fans have. I never went to those games. My seat remained empty.

I don’t use the ticket exchange as I don’t agree with how the club run it, and what they make from it. It benefits the club, not the fans. It’s skewed in the clubs favour. I’d be happy to give my empty seat away, or sell it for £20, but the club won’t let me do that.

 

[Corky]

Are you being serious?

We wouldn’t get over 20,000 if season tickets were abolished, and those seats were on open sale priced at previous season ticket prices. See above, £35!

Why are you assuming the club will cut prices? Even at £35 most would be forking out £70 or more just on tickets, and if you can pick and chose you don't chose Brentford on a week night in Feb. Most will just fuck it off and wait for a weekend game.

21,708 v Arsenal and that is with cup scheme automatic purchases.

13,912 v Brum under Keegan before cup scheme incentives.

The fan base has grown since the Keegan era, but we haven't had a game where everyone needs to actually purchase a ticket a match day prices in almost 20 years. The last one was a big FA Game v Liverpool when they brought 5k and 23k home fans.

 

[jrb]

Why are you assuming the club will cut prices? Even at £35 most would be forking out £70 or more just on tickets, and if you can pick and chose you don't chose Brentford on a week night in Feb. Most will just fuck it off and wait for a weekend game.

21,708 v Arsenal and that is with cup scheme automatic purchases.

13,912 v Brum under Keegan before cup scheme incentives.

The fan base has grown since the Keegan era, but we haven't had a game where everyone needs to actually purchase a ticket a match day prices in almost 20 years. The last one was a big FA Game v Liverpool when they brought 5k and 23k home fans.

So 2 adult tickets for £70 is unreasonable? The current alternative is currently £84 for Brentford in SL1. Not a huge saving, but still £14 cheaper.

I’ve just revisited the seat planner. There are still 102 seats available in 327 priced at £65 for an adult for the Chelsea match. 36 seats have been sold since I last had a look this Afternoon.

Just like Burnley and Barnsley in the FA Cup, we’ll probably get close to or over 50,000 for Fulham, because of the cheap ticket prices.

If Brentford on a week night in February was also priced cheaply or correctly, we’d get a much bigger crowd, instead of…….

 

[LongsightM13]

Does anyone remember that fat cockney/southern **** with the sudehead who used to always rock up in the away pub without a ticket, but then always tried to lowball:chisel fellow blues?
Pre the £30 cap he’d turn up at say Fulham or Birmingham where they’d charged us £45 and refuse to pay more than a fiver or a tenner for a spare?
I had two spares at West Brom one afternoon because my two mates’ (brothers) dad had died the night before.
The **** waddles over and tries his usual cheapskate trick, tenner the pair and not a penny more.
I got my lighter out and set fire to them in front of the cheap ****, wished him good luck, told him to fuck off and gave the two lads face value when I got home.
Their dad would have approved

 

[Shirley]

So 2 adult tickets for £70 is unreasonable? The current alternative is currently £84 for Brentford in SL1. Not a huge saving, but still £14 cheaper.

I’ve just revisited the seat planner. There are still 102 seats available in 327 priced at £65 for an adult for the Chelsea match. 36 seats have been sold since I last had a look this Afternoon.

Just like Burnley and Barnsley in the FA Cup, we’ll probably get close to or over 50,000 for Fulham, because of the cheap ticket prices.

If Brentford on a week night in February was also priced cheaply or correctly, we’d get a much bigger crowd, instead of…….

City fans are notorious for buying tickets at the last minute, it will sell out I reckon.
Totally agree with you regarding ticket prices, last time I was home vs Arsenal it cost me £93 for a senior and junior, bought them because there were no upgrades for that game.

 

[Corky]

So 2 adult tickets for £70 is unreasonable? The current alternative is currently £84 for Brentford in SL1. Not a huge saving, but still £14 cheaper.

I’ve just revisited the seat planner. There are still 102 seats available in 327 priced at £65 for an adult for the Chelsea match. 36 seats have been sold since I last had a look this Afternoon.

Just like Burnley and Barnsley in the FA Cup, we’ll probably get close to or over 50,000 for Fulham, because of the cheap ticket prices.

If Brentford on a week night in February was also priced cheaply or correctly, we’d get a much bigger crowd, instead of…….

As I said at £42+.

Currently the median ST PPM is just over £39 but with platinum it is almost £42.

Even when matches are massively discounted, like £9 for Fulham in the LC with £1 under 18s, that was built on a solid foundation of automatic cup scheme sales, was at half term and we got 35k. There isn't the demand at any price for some games, and scrapping season tickets is guaranteed to reduce revenue significantly and the club will never do it.

City sold out the Chelsea game a month ago and there are just ticket exchange resales and a clump that have just been released in one block now, which like every game get reduced to £30 nearer to the kick off if there are any left. In terms of maximising revenue the pricing is actually working even if we do end up with 20 tickets unsold, and I don't agree with the horrific prices, but if it my job and bonus on the line I would do the same or find another job quickly.

 

[East Level 2]

a lot of the seats are not sold. There are literally rows of seats that the club keep back/ give to corporate packages that don’t sell. They are unavailable to the public

So why the he'll don't the club release these 24/48 hours before the game? The corporates have reduced pressure to sell, the club make a few Bob extra and more fans get to see the game.
And why are we pushing corporate travel companies if there really are loads of City fans who want those seats?

 

[cityzen81]

I'm just hoping that the Fulham game doesn't get picked for TV and stays at 3pm on the Saturday. Last time we played them in the Cup it was 1pm on a Sunday live on BBC1. If we go with similar pricing - think it was £15 for me - the place will be packed to the rafters with local families and kids who have been dying to see the Blues live. The club might finally see the local potential out there and I'm sure the souvenir and pie shops will do well on the day. I've always felt a bit sad when you see all the families that come out for our victory parades in town, knowing that a lot of them probably just can't afford to go. Get the pricing right and just get them in!

Think we are gonna end up playing Fulham on the Sunday with a 2pm KO. The Rags are at home in the cup too and play the following Tues so no chance they will be playing the Sun

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Yes it can be difficult getting to go to and from midweek games but I think most of the ideas being suggested could result in low crowds. We’ve got a hardcore of about 30k that go to every home game. Some of the Blues will drift away as they get older and hopefully are replaced by other Blues.

Pep shared his frustrations at lower midweek attendances and praised the virtually full crowd against Leeds. We need more of the latter and less of the former.

Danny Wilson and co have made a few gaffs with regards to attendances at mid week games. This includes removing the ten extra ticket points people got for bringing more fans to Cup games. The Big Bang introduction of mobile ticketing, as well as having bad luck with Covid. Small improvements could be reintroduced, including resurrecting the few points for buying extra seats. The priority should be home fans rather than being preoccupied with our away following (we get enough benefits with £30 away tickets).

The bundle ticket idea might well be worth a go as long as the games contained both midweek and weekend games and high profile and less profile games. I know that’s not what many of the contributors want but we need to avoid decimating the midweek support. The weekday only (and priority for your seats) cards / bundles could be worth a go in an expanded North Stand (when it eventually happens).

The Ticket Exchange and Facebook pages resell approximately 5K of tickets for every home game. That figure probably doubles with Blues sharing amongst friends and family. Most fans can resell their tickets for most games and I don’t share the obsession with empty seats. Every ground has had them in recent times.

I agree that match day ticket prices should be lower, particularly for the lower profile games. I think the £30 tickets sell pretty well. The tickets will be cheap for Fulham at home in the Cup but those games don’t float everyone’s boat.

I’ve said this before, but I would encourage Blues faced with unaffordable ticket prices to join their local Supporters Club Branch. For example, we have 150 members and some of the Blues are away for games so tickets are made available at lower prices or for free.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

It won’t matter. If you buy a season ticket, you will still go without a season ticket, as long as the prices are equal to season ticket prices. Having a season ticket does not make you go to the match, as this and other seasons have shown. What it will stop is people buying season tickets and specific seats, whether they go to the matches or not. At least City fans who can’t get a season ticket as they sell out apparently, will have a chance to get a ticket at season ticket prices if they are on open sale.

Trust me, when you have something that you take for granted, and you no longer have it, and somebody else has it, your old seat, that makes you want to go more. I would hate anyone to have my seat on a match day. And if it was sold before I bought it, I would buy another seat instead

What City will be doing is opening up 35,000-40,000 seats(season tickets) at season ticket prices for any City fan to buy.

Yes, it’s a lottery, but if you buy a ticket earlier enough, you will always get a ticket. Not sure, can’t be arsed because it’s Brentford, you don’t go, but another City fan will.

That sounds absolutely terrible. I struggle to get confirmation of which of my adult kids is coming to a game with me until a few days beforehand, due to their work or studying commitments. Now I'd be saying I couldn't guarantee decent seats or whether we'd be sat together. They'd give up and I probably would too. Plus a lot of people seem to like being sat near people they know.

 

[Corky]

Brentford tickets have been reduced, £25 now behind goal (£42 originally) and £10 for U18.

All other areas reduced, £30 down the sides bar tier 2.

 

[blue44]

Brentford tickets have been reduced, £25 now behind goal (£42 originally) and £10 for U18.

All other areas reduced, £30 down the sides bar tier 2.

what about the people who booked,paid before this anouncement ?
all for it by the way !

 

[Northerndave]

what about the people who booked,paid before this anouncement ?
all for it by the way !

Bit like why on the Cup Scheme for the FA Cup I;m paying £15 for my seat as a ST and Cup Scheme member.

But a Student can walk in off the street and get a ticket for a tenner?

 

[its a Barm]

Slightly of topic do any of your guys know what day the Derby is to take place we have a 30th birthday party on rhe sunday, or when it's announced.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Well done City on reducing the ticket prices for Brentford.

 

[blue corby]

Well done City on reducing the ticket prices for Brentford.

Yes well done for reducing them , but shows they were to expensive in the first place .

 

[UUJblue]

Slightly of topic do any of your guys know what day the Derby is to take place we have a 30th birthday party on rhe sunday, or when it's announced.

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