Season Tickets

[London Villan]

The cricket has done that now - you have to pay a fee to be on the "priority list" and enter the ballot for tickets.

[astonvilla82]

Yeah I think some other clubs charge to get on and stay on a waiting list.
Missed opportunity , maybe they'll do this next year

According to the Web it's ranges from £50 to £100 for Manchester United waiting list

[luke95]

Buy a membership & you automatically go on a waiting list, buy 5 or more match tickets during the season & you automatically go on to the list otherwise charge a small fee(£15/20) . When its your turn & you don't take up the offer you go back to the bottom of the list .
That's how I'd do it .

[VillaTim]

Do Some clubs still penalise ST holders who don't buy Cup tickets for the home games ? We are moaning now but there's scope for this to get a whole lot worse

[Nev]

Without getting too political, it's pure capitalism. Paying to have the opportunity to pay for something.

[London Villan]

Brentford penalise you if you don't attend matches.

[artvandelay]

The cricket has done that now - you have to pay a fee to be on the "priority list" and enter the ballot for tickets.

To be fair for Edgbaston this guarantees you tickets and a £5 per ticket discount. As it cost me £20 and I intend to purchase at least 6 tickets, it's a no brainer. The ballot remains free to enter.

[NeilH]

Ajax tickets on average around 31Euros to 40Euros (Champions League games were approx 65Euros last season), Feyenoord around 29Euros to 35Euros (season ticket around 315Euros)
Bayer Leverkusen - 40Euros on average for all games (most expensive season ticket is 440Euros), Schalke around 45Euros
Royal Union St Gillis (Belgium) Cat1 games in the main stand 47Euros

I don't care what the club says, we are getting mugged and you only need to look over to the continent to see it.

[usav]

I don't care what the club says, we are getting mugged and you only need to look over to the continent to see it.

That's not really comparing apples to apples, though is it? How about comparing us to the teams that finished top 8 in the league last year, as that's where we aspire to be regularly. 

[artvandelay]

I don't care what the club says, we are getting mugged and you only need to look over to the continent to see it.

That's not really comparing apples to apples, though is it? How about comparing us to the teams that finished top 8 in the league last year, as that's where we aspire to be regularly.

We don't come across favourably there either. Looking at Man City here there's only a couple of options that are more expensive than our equivalents. Some are significantly cheaper; https://www.mancity.com/meta/media/xowh15py/gold_season_ticket_pricing_map_23-24_mobile-2.pdf

[NeilH]

I don't care what the club says, we are getting mugged and you only need to look over to the continent to see it.

That's not really comparing apples to apples, though is it? How about comparing us to the teams that finished top 8 in the league last year, as that's where we aspire to be regularly. 

I was trying to compare size of support and success - Feyenoord are Dutch champions and Champs League and have just sold all 33,000 season tickets with many on a waiting list. Ajax will be Europa League and have reached Champs League latter stages, their current waiting list for a season ticket runs into years.
Leverkusen are Conf League, but you can pick any Bundesliga club which will have the same price structure. Most Bundesliga clubs have long season ticket waiting lists.
RUSG are Belgium runners-up and sell out pretty much every home game they play, albeit at a small stadium.
My general point is that in a cost of living crisis, these prices are very hard to justify, especially when compared with equal size continental clubs with equal-sized over-subscription and support.

[Dogtanian]

Brentford penalise you if you don't attend matches.

Christ, I never go to Brentford matches unless we are playing them!

[Flin5tone]

This is on the back of sneaking into the 3rd tier European competition (not complaining at all fantastic season) but imagine of we get champions league.

It's all wrong and the club have completely lost all sense of reality

[Ads]

I'd prefer my season ticket to be cheaper, I'm glad away tickets and the European away tickets are capped. Its an expensive hobbie and our exceptionalism that we're different from others is probably part of the anger- we're not. We just had low demand and high supply. Man City are a poor example because of this.

We have to be cautious as we are not north or west London and don't have anything like the tourist draw of Man United or Liverpool.

The only way these prices stabilise or drop is if demand does. This increases the value of the season ticket and will make selling 40,000 in 2 years an absolute inevitability; one way to protect your hundred million capital works investment.

I dont buy the class issue though. Absolute bilge.

[chrisw1]

I fear for the price of season tickets next year.

For the 1888 seats on a game by game basis it's £1,394 against the current ST price of £899

For Zone 2 its' £1,004 against the current ST price of £779