Bayern Munich face Arsenal at the Emirates in the first-leg of the Champions' League last-16 tie on 19 February. Ticket prices are £62!!!!! and BM have bought 2,974 tickets to sell to their fans at £37. Good juju.... http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/09/bayern-munich-subsidise-arsenal-ticket-cost
Arsenal ticket - £62 Bayern Munich Season Ticket (in a standing area) - £104 Says it all. £104 to see the best team in Europe for a season.
I heard/read/saw something a couple of months ago that suggested the cheap German tickets are actually a bit misleading. It was something like they do have cheap tickets, but they're in a **** area and there's only a very small handful of them with basically all the tickets being priced the same as they are in England & Wales. I'll try to find it.
Bayern Munich season tickets go from £104 per season for the cheapest safe standing to £540 per season for the best seats(standard prices, these don't include corporate seats).
I can't find the article, but the average bundesliga ticket is only £4.76 cheaper than the average premier league ticket - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24086153 Matchday tickets for Bayern Munich v Borussia Dortmund start at £198. Although Bayern Munich refunded every ticket last season due to a lack of competition - http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/socce...ch-refund-price-tickets-season-203135227.html We really need to introduce safe standing, then we'd be able to sell cheaper tickets as we'd be packing far more fans in to the same space.
According to that article the average Bundesliga ticket is £4.76 cheaper than the average cheapest Prem ticket.
From what I can make out, the cheap tickets are all season tickets in the standing area with a huge queue to get one. Matchday tickets for Bayern Munich this season started from the cheapest price of £57.82 from their official ticket merchant Viagogo. They are all sold out on there now. I can't navigate BvB's official ticket site as it's in German, but off Viagogo their cheapest matchday ticket this season is £33.03 on there which is actually their next home game against FC Augsburg. So for the big two, unless you're a lifelong season ticket holder who can actually get in the cheap standing area, turning up for a game isn't cheap at all. Although the other clubs all have very good matchday ticket prices, presumably as there isn't the same mass demand as the big 2, and you can probably buy a matchday ticket in the standing areas. The cheapest match day ticket in Bundesliga is £9.91 at FC Nurnberg.
The anti name change gang will manipulate any news to support the view that they should have power and influence in running the club.
These things are all cherry picked. As you say there are cheap prices in standing areas. The standing areas so many of our delicate fans think would be too dangerous for some reqson despite the whole capacity of the KC safely standing behind one end at Dortmund. Not to mention drinks being sold and smoking allowed, or fans with large flags on long poles and horns and other things to help generate an atmosphere all things forbidden in our sanitised grounds. Things that would make those delicate fans and the SAG, police and others who are frightened off any shows of passion or spontaneity. Some people want the cheap tickets and atmosphere without actually having the things that make them possible. It is worth noting that clubs like Bayern only make season tickets available to a small percentage of fans so that they build up their fanbase by making tickets available to a wider public and enabling younger fans to see games, unlike here where the top clubs ha e waiting lists for season tickets meaning many never get a chance other than an odd cup game to see thier local team.Tickets away from the cheap standing ones at Bayern vary from 35euros behind the goal to 70 euros and corporate tickets are eye watering. Hamburgs seats are 35-76 euros for non season pass holders. Another forgotten thing is that clubs had to agree to so many cheap seats as a trade off for grounds being upgrqded for the World Cup at public expense, unlike this country where all but ourselves, Swansea and Leicester haven't had public money, local or national, spent on building or improving stadiums and clubs have to recover fhe costs. Tickets in Germany cover travel as well. But that means that a portion of the ticket price goes to subsidise travel costs whether you make use of transport or not. Everything is not as simple as saying isn't the German system wonderful and ours is crap. Also worth reflecting that Bayern havescored a double whammy here for little cost. Subsidise the tickets for what to them is peanuts and look the good guys and at the same time make Arsenal look like prats. Of course the main cost if you are a Bayern fan is not the ticket but the travelling. Not that Bayern fans were put off by either as they had 18,000 applications. The most surprising thing is that Arsenal have had to let them have less than 3,000 tickets. Talking of ticket prices, the cheapest, yes,cheapest, ticket on sale for non club members for their game agains Man City is £93.
Well done to Bayern Munich . I know a lot of people in this country don't particularly like the Germans but you have to give them a bit of credit when they get something right Arsenal can **** off
It doesn't say it all. We don't have standing areas where drinks are sold and smoking permitted, large flags are allowed, musical instruments, smoke flares etc. Too many of our fans would want the cheap,tickets but object to everyhing else, smoke is dangerous, flags spoiling the view etc...Not to mention our ground has nowhete to fit 15,000 to 25,000 standing fans like Bayern, Borussia Dortmund and others.You aren't comparing like to like. Away from the standing areas prices aren't as good. Look at the top end figures and it is a different picture. Hertha Berlin €89 Stuttgart €86.50 Hamburg €84 Eintracht Frankfurt €77 Bayer Leverkusen €76 Bayern Munich Cherry picking is wonderful,maybe we should quote the price for a kid in the South Stand, £23 for a season and use that as a comparison to costs in Germany?
That and being in a city of 1,500,000 and seen as representing a rich state with 12 million inhabitants. Not to mention receiving state aid for the stadium in a way which wouldn't be allowed here.
