https://www.mancunianmatters.co.uk/news/09072026-the-geography-of-belonging-mapping-the-decline-of-manchester-uniteds-local-support/
A bit of a read; and yeh it's all about ManU, but a warning to fans of clubs everywhere, and a glimpse into our future?
Read the latter sections.
Longstanding ST holders, who live locally being moved to make way for corporates and seeing ticket prices increase beyond what they can afford, and giving up.
Interesting read but weird to focus on M postcodes given United’s support even pre Munich was coming form Cheshire and Lancashire. It would be like somebody focusing on B postcodes for us which u would say was similarly misleading given our traditional catchment area across the midlands.
He addressed this question:
"Finally, the 2021 study listed the overall proportion of season ticket holders resident in the North West of England, recognising ‘the dispersal of city communities and the influence of Manchester as the regional capital’. The North West in the original study is defined as encompassing the counties of Lancashire, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cumbria.
In 2025/25, the proportion of North West based season ticket holders from across those five countries had seen perhaps the biggest percentage drop of any group – from 72% in 2001, to just 52% in 2025/26."
