Nice to see freeze continuing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7417641.stm

:rolleyes:

Been said before, the only answer is don't buy tickets.

This is impacting now and is going to get worse - food price rises by 10-15% over the last year, gas and electricity by god knows what %, fuel rising astronomically, many people struggling to pay off mortgages. And the new, simplified structure for rail fares seems to have given the green light to massively increase fares on many routes :angry:

So you would expect at least some people to have to give up going to matches, given the alternative option of keeping warm, keeping their house and being able to eat. Hands up anyone with a 17.5% pay rise this year?

Similar article here.

Premier League clubs hit fans with massive price rises

Football fans currently contemplating renewing season tickets at Premier League clubs are fast discovering that galloping inflation is not restricted to their local petrol station forecourts.

Indeed at a time when clubs are benefiting from unprecedented television revenues a BBC survey of season-ticket prices for middle-priced stands has found that supporters will be expected to pay an average £590 for such a seat next season, a rise of 7.2% - more than twice the rate of consumer price inflation.

After winning the FA Cup, Portsmouth have increased the cost of a mid-range seat by 17.5%. Top-priced tickets at Fratton Park now cost £925 - £13 more than the most expensive seats at Old Trafford, home of the league champions, Manchester United.

Other big rises came at Blackburn Rovers (12.9%), Tottenham Hotspur (10.7%) and Wigan Athletic (10%). A Spurs spokesman defended the decision to raise prices for White Hart Lane, saying: "In order to progress on and off the pitch we need to be able to continue to raise our level of investment in the squad and all areas of the club's operations and facilities."

At the other end of the scale, West Ham United, Manchester City and Middlesbrough all put prices up by 4% or less while Chelsea supporters have been cheered by news that the club has frozen prices at Stamford Bridge. Of the other leading clubs, Manchester United have put the price of a middle-ranked seat up by 6%, with the cost of a season ticket in the upper East Stand rising to £665. Nonetheless, when compared to typical prices in excess of £1,000 for a decent spot at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium the cost of watching Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney at Old Trafford, where full adult prices range from £912 to £494, seems relatively reasonable.

The BBC survey did not include Bolton Wanderers, Liverpool and Newcastle United, where season ticket details were still being finalised, in the survey. However Newcastle yesterday confirmed that there will be price reductions in certain areas of St James' Park, including a newly created so called "singing" or "noisy" corner in which season tickets will be available at a reduced £390 for the more vocal sort of supporter who comes equipped with powerful lungs. In exchange for such good value tickets, these "noisy" fans will be expected to lead the rest of the ground in renditions of The Blaydon Races.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/28/premierleague

The analysis of United's prices above fails to take into account the Automatic cup scheme which is compulsory for all ST holders.

Going off last seasons prices the cheapest seat in east/stretty lower of £475 with the 10 cup games was £725. Plus the number of seats at this price must be around 5% of the overall capacity. A ST in Stretford tier 2 where the majority stand was £627 but £960 overall. Most expensive seats at £836 were £1276 over the entire season.

Plus this fails to take into account the premium that the club add on for the knockout rounds of the champions league which add another £5 for knockout-round, £8 for quarter final and £10 for semi onto normal matchday price.

With Chelsea freezing prices for third year in a row and having no automatic cup scheme in place im not sure United can claim to be cheaper than Chelsea over a season anymore now.

we cant complain ours have gone down:)

ive got mine for £299 that adult price
my brother who 15 got it for 49 quid which is 2.50 a game in the premership

Mine is £214.00 which is under a tenner a game, unless I can find someone who's already renewed, in which case I can get it for £99.

Our cheapest has stayed at 299, but overall there has been qutie a big rise.

Mine is £210 in the Upper North (but I don't actually go there anymore). Around £9 a game.

£245 for 3rd division football and under 22 ticket at city and if I was an adult it would easily clear £320 it really is laughable :lol:

And the worst thing is I'm renewing it tomorrow, mainly for the priority for the sheds we'll be visiting :D

If we an kep our home crowds at over 18,000 it'll be a miracle.

Another freeze for us, mine is £650 in Matthew Harding Lower, cheapest non-family adult available

We've dropped our champions league group games to £25/£12 kids for anywhere in the ground - also all fa cup games will be £25/£12 and Carling cup games £20/£10 - pretty good value....

We've boycotted the group games over the last four years and it finally paid off... took that long for the club to realise why carling cup games were more popular than champions league ones...

My MHL season ticket is £650 for league games which per game £34 is a lot cheaper than most away grounds I went to last season

Its all well and good Chelsea singing the priase of "Freezing Prices", but when they consistently charge more than anyone else, its not exactky a bargain. Yes, Chelsea fans say its £34 in the MH Lower, but in the East lower at united it will be £25. A difference of £9 per game.

Would they do this if they didnt struggke to fill the ground though? Stamford bridge is empty/general sale reduced prices for most these games anyway.

Boycotted? Not the case, in truth you havent sold out, struggled to sell these games due to the prices and the JCL fanbase.

That £25 ticket at OT is slightly misleading. East stand lower seats around 1500 and west stand lower around 2000 equating to under 5% of the the overall capacity.

With around 65K ST holders and only 3.5K tickets available to members for league games the majority of both stands are taken up by ST holders anyway.

The average price of a ticket now at Old Trafford must be up around £38-39.

oh piss off tufty! why do you feel the need to jump on any comment like this every time!?! everybody here knows that the £25 seats at united are bollocks! there's about 10 of them and you can't get one because they're all taken. I'm fairly convinced they're only that price so that Gill (or mouthpieces like you) can spout this crap PR line of "well, the cheapest seats at OT are only £25"

Half a dozen people pay £25 at OT so it's good value? don't talk tenche. The rest of us are paying ever increasing prices and the average price of a ticket is nearer to £40 than anything.

It's £26 a game now anyway - but Tufty I have to agree with the others we have very few at this price.

The next price band up is now £33 that £7 more expensive per game which for the area it's located is disgusting - after that it's £35 a game.

It's simply not cheap anymore

Pre-Glazer the cheapest seat now at £26 was the cost of a mid-range seat in Stretford tier 2.

In 3 years a seat in Stretford tier 2 has gone up over 25% from £26 to £35. Some tickets that were £27 in North/South stand at end of 05/06 season are now nearer to £45.

With the automatic cup scheme and based on a successful season nearly every ST is around £1000.

We've seen a huge turnover in ST holders with thousands forced out by prices and replaced by those who can pay. There were £15K new ST holders in 2006 alone.

Many of these new ST holders are accustomed to £30+ tickets as many of them have probably never paid the affordable prices we had pre-Glazer mainly due to a lack of availability of ST/LMTB in the previous years.

This "still cheaper than Chelsea" line that Gill and even Fergie likes to pursue is simply to mask the exploitation of United supporters by the Glazer family by shifting the blame.

The tickets have gone up in order for the Glazer family to meet the debt repayments that they inflicted on the club. Tickets prices would not have risen to these unprecedented levels otherwise.

Prices are going to just keep going up and up. In a few years we will have £50+ match tickets in North/South stands and £40 tickets in the Stretford end.

Ours are up by around 5%, one of the lowest increases despite us already being one of the cheapest teams to watch in the league. After 2 years of frozen prices a 5% increase isn't bad at all

Whats evident, is there are a few mongs in here who cannot read

read it again mong brain. Its comparing the £34 price with the £25 at old Trafford. A comparison of the 2 clubs lowest prices.

In the 8years pre-lazer, ST prices had gone up 98%, so its not just a Glazer issue. And its not just a United issue, as this report shows. So dont spout rubbish about affordable oprices pre-Glazer. Take your Glazer blinkers off for once.

Again, look at the facts before spoting such rubbish. facts prove they did go up pre-glazer NT2 in 1996 was £14, NT2 in 2005 pre Glazer was £27. Do the Glazers put up prices at Sunderland et al?

I have been one of the biggest critics of ticket prices and have probably done more actions than most the mongs on here, who spout unfactual rubbish.

I bet none of you moan about the soaring cost or petrol, fuel costs or mortage repayments. Items that are more necessity than luxury.
Football has always been about people who can afford it, its no different now and thats the sad thing. Until all football fans unite, nothing will be done - but football fans wont stay away to make the point, the clubs know that.
And when the majority of Utds big games are over subscribed by over 20,000 its even harder for United fans to make that protest.
I give up preaching at Wembley and Fulham when people simply replied "Im not bothered, I only go 2 games a year etc".

Most of that's illegible but anyway.

The £26 seat at Old Trafford accounts for around 3500 out of 76000 seats. If you are going to talk it up then you at least need to state that in reality you can will not get hold of a ST in that section and there are few members tickets available.

United's ticket prices have never in the past risen at at the rate they have under Glazer ownership. NT2 rose from £14 in 1996 to £27 in 2005 according to your figures. Under Glazer ownership it has risen £15 in just 3 years to £42.

Any clued up United suporter wil tell you that tickets were more affordable pre than post the Glazer takeover.

From what i can make out you are a big critic of Arsenal and Chelsea's prices but a staunch defender of any Glazer price increase. If i was being kind I would say it is just blind loyalty but it's as if you have some sort of agenda regarding the Glazer's.

From what i can make out you are anti-MUST, anti-IMUSA and very pro-Glazer.

Any criticism of their ownership is seized upon and either branded as treacherous towards United or blamed on another club's actions. In all seriousness are you on their payroll?

And from what i gather, your either illigitimate, sorry illiterate, or that blinkered you read things out of conteXt.

Nobody is denying that, as prices have continued to rise under the Glazers, as they did for the years before.
Prices were also more affordable pre-premiership.

Nobodies denying that prices have risen throughout history - but come on it's obvious that across the board prices have increased far more year on year under the short Glazer regime then they have under previous ones.

We have already sold the most season tickets in our entire 120 year history thanks to a price reduction of £86!

Bloody hope so at that price.

I thought Barnet put up their season tickets <_<

£380-£510 for 3rd division football

was only £360-£440 for 2nd division football last year.

Glad I am banned.

:blink: Our dearest season ticket is only 510.

Also, 400 pound more to watch football at Fratton Park than Villa Park is laughable, Fratton is a sh!thole

I take you point but id still rather be playing at Fratton Park than some shiny new soulless bowl on the outskirts of town. Its one of the few old, traditional grounds left and ill be gutted when/if we leave. The club use the excuse that because our capacity is so low they have to charge more to make money to help us compete. Regardless of the fact that s/t income is only a very small part of overall income.

Anyway winning the FA Cup makes it a lot easier to bump seaon ticket prices up 17% as any dissenting voices are told its a necessity if we want more success. Individual tickets in most parts of the ground will be £40+ next season and I reckon away ones will be about £36. In my view thats ridiculously high - as with most people it will be a case of pick and chose with mainly away games for me next season.

Traditional ground or not 36 quid to visit Fratton Park is a joke.

Will you have lots of empty seats next season you reckon? I noticed you didn't sell out every game last season and that was with 'reasonable' prices

I don't think we have any of their fans on here to speak for their selfs, but I have heard QPR have hiked theirs up a bit. Up to 60% in places from what I heard. And look how rich their owners are. It is not like they are short on cash.

I agree - £36 is taking the piss. We'll have empty seats again, mainly for the Sky games. In a way im glad we dont sell-out every game as the people filling the seats would be the jcl's anyway. I gave up my s/t last year - mainly because of all the games being moved by Sky. It cost £39 to go in the North Lower last season - daylight robbery even though it was our best season ever. Hopefully we'll get a 3.00 Saturday kick off at Villa Park next season for a change....

As for QPR - it seems with Chelsea the richer the owner the bigger the price hike.

I know yeah, two 12.45 kick offs and one monday night game at 8pm isn't it so far? Something like that.

I wouldn't hold your breath though, 2 teams going for Europe again next season and are likely to be near each other in the league so they'll probably move it again

You say it like their doing you a favour, £650 is an obscene amount to pay to watch Football.

I know the argument is well if you want to see the best players you have to pay the best prices but it was Club Owners/Chairman who decided to start paying players these daft wages not us fans. All this TV money is going straight into the players pockets and I don't blame them for taking it but sometimes I really do wish the bubble would burst

No, we froze them. Then we decided to have a little discount (but you have to buy before June the 15th or something).

Mine cost £199 instead of £285.

At Anfield they have gone up the usual £40/£50 a season, as they have done every single season since 1994.

This year's prices:

Kop - £650
Everywhere else - £700

I've reluctantly decided to renew again this year, as I know if I don't, then some other "new fan" is all too willing to step into my shoes. I was considering loaning it out to a mate for the season, but I just can't miss home games. Missed one in 20 years and I just can't do it, so continue to be taken for a mug.

I refuse to travel to away grounds now with expensive tickets. The likes of Derby, Birmingham and Fulham charging £40-£45 is an absolute joke.

But no matter how much moaning everyone does, and no matter how many articles are published in the press or rants made on SSN - nothing will ever be done about it until fans nationwide get together and refuse to pay it. Boycotts nationwide. Otherwise they'll never take note.

yawn yawn yawn... do some research before opening your gob - I can see why even your own fans think you're a twat

we have 6,900 seats in the MHL and 1,000 in the shed lower at £34 quid a game - now considering that we paid £37 at OT £36 at liverpool, £46 at arse, spurs, west ham, fulham, brum, derby I'd call that a bargain.....

If you say so...

I paid £45 at Stamford Bridge this season in the away end, yet for a better spec seat at OT, I paid £25 this season, thats nearly half the price.
The away end at OT is a much better location than the MH lower and shed lower.
The away end at OT is one of the better away areas for location.

Ye but you get treated like tenche in your away end by the stewards.

Wales 'season ticket' prices are as follows:

http://www.faw.org.uk/ticket-information/home_match_tickets (click on the pdf at the bottom)

Five WC qualifying games at the Millennium Stadium are between £60 and £100 for adults and only £20 for kids. So an adult and a kid can watch Germany, Russia, Finland, Azerbaijan and Liechtenstein for only £80.

Individual match prices vary from £15-30 adults for the Germany and Russia games and from £15-20 for the others. Kids can watch all games for £5.

I think these are excellent prices, and hopefully Wales can get close to selling out the Millennium again, as they did for every game in the euro 2004 qualifiers. At prices like that, I'd like to think that some neutrals from across the border would come to see some value international football.

Problem with the Wales prices is that from memory they don't discount much for the rubbish games. With those prices it would hopefully be over half full or even going on 40-50k for the big games, but I still can't see it getting more full than the 25,000 that were at the last two matches I went to when the Azeris roll into town.