Has your season ticket gone up and ......

[madcyril]

.....will you be renewing?

There's been a lot of press recently on the costs of attending football games and I believe one paper is/was running a campaign to keep freeze ST prices or even drop them.

Interesting little piece here on Virgin Money regarding prem teams.

Welcome views from fans of teams from all leagues.

[Lawrenzini]

Can't believe that 10% of Wigan fans are not renewing due to cost. Wigan season tickets are around £350, that's significantly less than a 12 month sky subscription.

[madcyril]

Originally Posted by Lawrenzini

Can't believe that 10% of Wigan fans are not renewing due to cost. Wigan season tickets are around £350, that's significantly less than a 12 month sky subscription.

I was under the impression Wigan had dropped there prices for next season.

I have posted before that tickets at OT are going up(no confirmation still )as much as 14 %.I have 2 seats which may have gone nearly 9%.Cup games are extra and this year we are obliged to be part of the Automatic Cup Scheme renewal which could add between £2-300 on top.The choice to attend cup games has been removed(well not removed,you pay whether you can attend or not)which for many including myself is the killer.

[MedMick]

My Arsenal season ticket has stayed the same price for the last 3 years. I havent renewed yet, but i have until 1st june to do so. The price is way too high, but im luck enough that i can easily resell my ticket on. Thanks to the new ground, we have a block of about 20 seats. Price of my ticket is £1295!!!!!! but we get 7 cup games in that (not including carling cup) so it works out about £50 /game. For once, you northerners are the lucky ones ....

[Sicknote10]

£260 for a season ticket at Woking, no change from last year
£100 for my consessions one

[madcyril]

Originally Posted by MedMick

My Arsenal season ticket has stayed the same price for the last 3 years. I havent renewed yet, but i have until 1st june to do so. The price is way too high, but im luck enough that i can easily resell my ticket on. Thanks to the new ground, we have a block of about 20 seats. Price of my ticket is £1295!!!!!! but we get 7 cup games in that (not including carling cup) so it works out about £50 /game

OMFG

£1295.I'm more shocked that you was paying that 3yrs ago.How does that price compare to other seats.Mine(I think)will be £722,if I include 7 cup games that would rise to £988 each.My seats were the second most expensive last year(not including the suits) but I believe they have split up the stands for next year to include another price band which if true would make my seats the third most expensive.

[Orson]

Derby may seem like good value then (no need to add any jokes thankyou!)

I'm in the cheapest category, but I wouldn't want to swap my seat anyway, as I'm 3 rows from the front, about halfway between the penalty area and the halfway line. Yes, I get the sun in my face (on the rare occasion it shines) , but very rarely do I get wet if it rains, as the roof just covers me.

And I've renewed mine for next season (premiership or not ) at a cost of £270, with my daughters concession being £110.

Although it should be noted that this doesn't include any cup games, which being Derby, doesn't make much of a difference anyway

[overkill]

Good shout Cyril, and if that report is correct, then it's further proof of what some of us have been saying for years. The clubs are pricing fans out of the game, and slowly but surely they are starting to vote with their feet.

Add in the poor product that is modern English football, the cost of getting to the stadia, and/or parking hassles, and the debit side of the margin is starting to heavily outweigh the positives.

If we get another awful season (I still want to know what Hansen was smoking when he said last season was 'fantastic') like the last one, the same faces once again dominating everything, and the trickle may become a flood.

.........unless clubs start slashing wages, and cutting back season ticket and entrance prices.

[madcyril]

Originally Posted by overkill

unless clubs start slashing wages, and cutting back season ticket and entrance prices

Not while TV is throwing huge sums of money at the league.

If that happens at Utd in my lifetime I'll show my a*se in Piccadily train staion.

[WelshBluebird]

This season will be the first time I've had a season ticket, and the only reason I am getting one is cos Cardiff had a special offer for about a month.

Usually (as I'm not able to go to all home matches) the price of a season ticket isn't worth it as it would cost me more than buying the individual tickets for each game, but this season Cardiff had an offer for a month or so offering season tickets for a cheaper price.

Where I usually go, it was about £80 cheaper than usual. So that means it will be a fair bit cheaper than buying the individual tickets for each game, and I also get advantage of being able to get cup tickets first.

[MedMick]

Originally Posted by madcyril

£1295.I'm more shocked that you was paying that 3yrs ago.How does that price compare to other seats.Mine(I think)will be £722,if I include 7 cup games that would rise to £988 each.My seats were the second most expensive last year(not including the suits) but I believe they have split up the stands for next year to include another price band which if true would make my seats the third most expensive.

Most expensive season tickets are the middle teir in the emirates. (the bit thats empty at the start of the second half due to free drinks!). They had to cough up upto £20000! for a 5 year season ticket(no season ticket waiting list to jump through). Trouble is ive been a season ticket holder since mid eighties and if i give it up now, i have to join the back of the queue which i believe (but not sure) is about 7 year waiting list. Other implications being that i wont get cup final tickets, but that is now a lottery with 44,000 season ticket holders(double what we had at highbury)

[overkill]

Originally Posted by madcyril

Not while TV is throwing huge sums of money at the league.

If that happens at Utd in my lifetime I'll show my a*se in Piccadily train staion.

Agree on both counts. As long as Sky and others keep feeding the sharks (players, agents, the FA) then they will continue to gobble it all up - without having to work for it. As long as they do, the fans won't see any reductions in real terms. Ever.

[Sonic67]

If you are a fan of a big club there might be a point but if you are a Wigan fan do you really want to see your team lose every week and hold on for a draw?

It's tricky. Albion might go up. In the Championship we won a lot of matches and scored plenty of goals. In the premiership it's a good season if you stay out the bottom three.

In the cup matches it will be a second team that's played until we get kicked out and if you are lucky we might pull off a stunning victory against a big club.

[BrianC]

Villa have been advertising that they have cut prices this year by 5% but in reality they are the same price as they were last year if you purchased really early (as nobody was going to renew with DOL and HDE still at the club) - it was a genuine discount last season however. We haven't had any price rises for several years now, but I expect some will come if and when we move into Europe.

Seems weird that they try to justify price rises with increased success as getting into Europe or later stages of cups or higher up the league results in more entry and prize money, and more matches again resulting in more income. Raising prices on top is doubling their money.

Cheapest adult season ticket at Villa is £300 in the North Stand or the Family Stand, an U12 is £105 in the same stands. Most expensive is £475 for adults and £125 for U12s, both for seats either side of the half way line. U12s is where you really get a return on your season ticket, where I now sit (moved back to the Holte now my son is older) it costs an average of £15 a game, yet his season ticket is £125, we only have to go to 8 games for the season ticket to pay off (with mine its 10 games), this year we went to 16 home games.

We don't get cup games included (not that the FA grants us many home cup games) but you can elect to automatically reserve them under a free scheme. There is a similar scheme for away tickets as well, but I think you pay £10 to join that, and you have to be a member of both schemes to get away cup tickets. I'm only signed up for the cup games scheme as we can only afford the time to go to a handful of away matches, plus I don't like paying out some of the other teams high prices that we get charged.

Edit: What other benefits do you get with your season ticket?

We get 10% off in the shop, free entry to home reserves matches, a quarterly magazine, entry to the Holte suite (should be changing to the newly refurbished Holte hotel) and U12s get free membership to the Villa kids fan club. The last one was worth a free Villa tracksuit (£40) in vouchers for my lad this season.