Ticket Prices

[jrb]

He presided over the biggest price rises, cat A went from £28 to £48 in 4 years under him, and a £10 jump in his first year.

He was all about the product and clueless about football. He may have given away free tickets now and again, but the rest of us paid for it in spades and then some.

10 consecutive season ticket price rises.

 

[cyberblue]

Totally agree Ric
We all no mates who have sacked it off
We all no families ,relatives ,nieces & nephews who would love to go but the prices are just Barmy
Some fans & families just want to go, say 3 or 4 games a season but you got to fork out £35 for a membership card before you start
Fu*king bonkers
Instead of just season ticket holders & membership card holders there should be loads of other incentives to get fans in the ground
Are crowds & fan base are brilliant but with a bit of help from the club we could be even better & more youngsters & the not so well of could watch City at the ground instead of on the telly

 

[bluesmith]

If true, which I doubt?

We haven't sold 99.9% of tickets for 99.9% of home games so far this season.

There's 2 more very important things you have to factor in for the current tickets sales.

1. Pep Guardiola
2. A trophy winning team.

Take both of them away in the future + £60+ tickets and crowds will plummet.

Why would you doubt it there was less than 50 tickets available a few weeks ago for Spurs. Liverpool and United have sold out, Chelsea was sold out months beforehand.

Cat As aren't the issue. So the price will never change.

All the rest of your post is an assumption. The fact that these games sell so quickly tells a different story.

 

[jrb]

As the cost of living has gone higher and higher, petrol, gas, electric, rent, food, essentials, City fans will make hard choices. £60+ on a single match ticket isn't happening, especially as the match is at 5.30pm on a Saturday night. Cheap beer from the supermarket and a takeaway.

 

[Corky]

Cook was there 3 years and Soriano nearly 10. Cook was still learning and listening to the match going fans, prices may have increased initially, but I believe he would have controlled it better than what it is now, we'll never know, but that's my gut feeling.

Prices went up more under Cook from 07/08 to 11/12 then they have in ten years since. They have only gone up £5 since 2014 and are pretty maxed out for PL individual games.

I think they maxed the prices out in the early years and have had nowhere to go now, bar the season tickets where they have most people dripped up over 10 payments and will continue to increase.

 

[bluesmith]

Approx 250 tickets left for Brighton a month away at nearly £50 a pop.. Yet there will be 3-5000 empty seats matchday.

 

[bluesmith]

Totally agree Ric
We all no mates who have sacked it off
We all no families ,relatives ,nieces & nephews who would love to go but the prices are just Barmy
Some fans & families just want to go, say 3 or 4 games a season but you got to fork out £35 for a membership card before you start
Fu*king bonkers
Instead of just season ticket holders & membership card holders there should be loads of other incentives to get fans in the ground
Are crowds & fan base are brilliant but with a bit of help from the club we could be even better & more youngsters & the not so well of could watch City at the ground instead of on the telly

Theres 250 seats left for a game against Brighton at £45 for the worst third tier seats! A game that we almost certainly don't know when it will be played and will almost certainly be played at night at short notice. Explain how that fits in with your narrative.

Rather than slag the club and slag the fans who go, why don't you actually understand why we have seats available the day before a match. I'll give you a clue TICKET EXCHANGE

 

[jrb]

Why would you doubt it there was less than 50 tickets available a few weeks ago for Spurs. Liverpool and United have sold out, Chelsea was sold out months beforehand.

Cat As aren't the issue. So the price will never change.

All the rest of your post is an assumption. The fact that these games sell so quickly tells a different story.

There's about 400 tickets left on the seat planner. Can't be arsed counting them. That probably doesn't include tickets sold to ticket agencies, tickets given away, etc.

Where you get 50 tickets left a few weeks ago I don't know??

United and Liverpool will always sell out. Tell us something we don't already know.

But what about the bread and butter games against Brentford, etc, with hundreds, if not thousands of empty seats and unsold tickets.

Don't forget we've got the best manager in the world, we've got one of the best teams in the world, we're current PL Champions, we're currently top of the PL, yet we've struggled to sell out all season.(bar United and Liverpool, arf!)

What story does tell you? Stop deluding yourself. Face facts. And the truth!

Good night!

 

[Katsunari Takayama]

Makes you wonder what the long term vision really is for the club. We’re pricing out a generation of fans. City fans are fucking everywhere you go now locally whereas 15 or 20 years ago despite our rhetoric we were easily outnumbered by rags. If we don’t get em into the habit of coming to the match regularly now before girls and careers and mortgages become the priority then in another 15 years when all the old timers stop going and our cycle of success has run its course we’ll be back down to 25k crowds

 

[bluesmith]

There about 400 tickets left on the seat planner. Can't be arsed counting them. That probably doesn't include tickets sold to ticket agencies, tickets given away, etc.

Where you get 50 tickets left a few weeks ago I don't know??

United and Liverpool will always sell out. Tell us something we don't already know.

But what about the bread and butter games against Brentford, etc, with hundreds, if not thousands of empty seats and unsold tickets.

Don't forget we've got the best manager in the world, we've got one of the best teams in the world, we're current PL Champions, we're currently top of the PL, yet we've struggled to sell out all season.(bar United and Liverpool, arf!)

What story does tell you? Stop deluding yourself. Face facts. And the truth!

Good night!

They are ticket exchange seats! It's not difficult

 

[cyberblue]

Theres 250 seats left for a game against Brighton at £45 for the worst third tier seats! A game that we almost certainly don't know when it will be played and will almost certainly be played at night at short notice. Explain how that fits in with your narrative.

Rather than slag the club and slag the fans who go, why don't you actually understand why we have seats available the day before a match. I'll give you a clue TICKET EXCHANGE

I have never slagged any City fan of in my posts ( why you say that )
I only praise City fans young & old who attend the games & .

Theres 250 seats left for a game against Brighton at £45 for the worst third tier seats! A game that we almost certainly don't know when it will be played and will almost certainly be played at night at short notice. Explain how that fits in with your narrative.

Rather than slag the club and slag the fans who go, why don't you actually understand why we have seats available the day before a match. I'll give you a clue TICKET EXCHANGE

You think what you like ,say it enough times you might even believe it

 

[bluesmith]

I have never slagged any City fan of in my posts ( why you say that )
I only praise City fans young & old who attend the games & .

You think what you like ,say it enough times you might even believe it

Lol. The irony.

Please explain why their are only 250 seats left for Brighton at £45+ on a date which we almost certainly don't know if the club have their pricing so wrong and we have so few fans who can afford it?

I'd love tickets to be cheap enough for everyone to afford games but we are a business and as long as we are near enough sold out every single game its quite clear they won't be changing price anytime soon.

 

[Hoghead]

As the cost of living has gone higher and higher, petrol, gas, electric, rent, food, essentials, City fans will make hard choices. £60+ on a single match ticket isn't happening, especially as the match is at 5.30pm on a Saturday night. Cheap beer from the supermarket and a takeaway.

I've already blown our budget on that tonight.
It'll be homebrew and stew on Saturday evening.

 

[Corky]

There about 400 tickets left on the seat planner. Can't be arsed counting them. That probably doesn't include tickets sold to ticket agencies, tickets given away, etc.

Where you get 50 tickets left a few weeks ago I don't know??

United and Liverpool will always sell out. Tell us something we don't already know.

But what about the bread and butter games against Brentford, etc, with hundreds, if not thousands of empty seats and unsold tickets.

Don't forget we've got the best manager in the world, we've got one of the best teams in the world, we're current PL Champions, we're currently top of the PL, yet we've struggled to sell out all season.(bar United and Liverpool, arf!)

What story does tell you? Stop deluding yourself. Face facts. And the truth!

Good night!

It was a low number until a week ago all stands sold out bar family and 3rd tiers.

More have gone on every day than been sold this week, probably due to the weather. There will be more put on tomorrow morning too no doubt.

It they there were a lot of club tickets for sale left they have reduced them every match this season without fail, including Arsenal from £63 to £50.

 

[paulchapo]

Are you sure that many families used to go in the old days. Coming from Wythenshawe where people did not have a lot of money everyone in my class would support City or United but I can rarely remember any of them actually going to a game. Certainly apart from the odd one off game my Dad (who when single had been a regular supporter) only started to go again with me when I started work.

I grew up in Benchill and everyone I know went to games. We might have missed the odd one but we got to the majority. We had our spends ( Pocket money) and a lot of us did paper/milk rounds or a bit of caddying at Northendon or Didsbury golf course to top it up.

It cost me 2/6d to get into the scoreboard and 3 shilling to get into the Kippax. Those old enough will remember there was a transfer gate where you could pay to go from the scoreboard into the Kippax, it was 6d. Me and my mate would get to Maine Road as soon as the turnstiles opened. We'd pay into the scoreboard, walk right to the corner, jump over the wall and into the Kippax so saving 6d. In those days you just paid at the turnstile so it made going to a game easy as there was no membership, tickets etcetera. The only all ticket games were the derby and some cup games

Football at the moment is riding the cash cow to the max but there are signs it's waning. Inflation and energy rises are going to have a huge impact. £63 is Wembley cup final prices, for a league game it's ludicrous. I tell you football is a habit. Once you miss a few games the pull lessens. What's the match day experience? High admission prices, overcrowded inadequate transport, shit weather 90% of the time, queuing to show passes, and get searched. Once in the ground poor food and drink on offer and slow service means many don't bother. Streaming and more football on TV or in the pub means you can watch in the warmth and comfort at a fraction of the price ( If you pay) and no hassle. Clubs need to be very careful it's not always going to be happy days and covid showed what matches without fans was like, garbage

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

There were reasons away tickets were capped at £30 and all of them were based around it being ‘because it was the right thing to do’. Therefore why isn’t the same logic applied to home supporters?

 

[yatesy94.]

Buying a ticket off a friend for face value of his season ticket. £60+ vs Spurs...don't make me laugh not doing it anymore. Nevermind the metaverse be real trendsetters and cap the prices to £30 like did for away tickets + watch how quickly the emptihad jibes disappear.

 

[jrb]

They are ticket exchange seats! It's not difficult

You don't know that. You're assuming that. You like the word assumption.

The fact the club reduces ticket prices as a game gets closer for certain games, tells us everything.

United and Liverpool will ways sell out, so you can stop using those games as examples.

 

[Beaker]

Buying a ticket off a friend for face value of his season ticket. £60+ vs Spurs...don't make me laugh not doing it anymore. Nevermind the metaverse be real trendsetters and cap the prices to £30 like did for away tickets + watch how quickly the emptihad jibes disappear.

Will never happen, City shamefully were one of the clubs that voted against the £30 cap on away tickets.

 

[blueparrot]

You don't know that. You're assuming that. You like the word assumption.

The fact the club reduces ticket prices as a game gets closer for certain games, tells us everything.

United and Liverpool will ways sell out, so you can stop using those games as examples.

Aren’t you assuming they aren’t ? I was planning to go to Brentford until I realised it was midweek, thats what put me off, the travelling for a night game.