Just been reading on the average price for a match day out, and it creates some surprise figures. What the survey adds together is the difference in who you watch. The figures represent a cost of a ticket, a programme, a cup of tea, and a pie. Tried to find this years costs, these figures were based on 2012 The most expensive is Chelsea at 49.60 followed by Liverpool 47.30 West Ham 44.50 Swansea 42.80 Everton 38.90 Spurs 41.20 United 38.60 Spurs 41.20 City 35.00 Arsenal 34.30 Newcastle 23.00 What is surprising is that the so called "elite" are not the most expensive, and the Geordies, who are fanatical about their team, get the best value for money. Please, no more comments about the Glaziers and prices, this is meant as a genuine comparison on costs for ALL teams. no disrespect meant to West Ham, But it seems in London you get a better deal at Arsenal and Spurs
I assume the prices are based on the cheapest tickets available. The last time I went it cost 50 odd quid. And that was without a programme. Although the 'triple deal' of pie crisps and a pint for 6 quid did seem reasonable at the time.
Ok. No comment about the GGs. What is surprising is how the RS take advantage of their fans. The cost of living difference between London and the north and north west is quite significant. Yet a day out at the RS cost nearly 50% more than a day out at Arsenal. Pure greed!!
Purley, I was looking for the average price, and used the cheapest figures to compare. Apologies for the mix up
The cheapest match tickets at Arsenal are £26 The list is totally wrong though as the cheapest tickets at Citeh are £58
I think you and PPLF are confusing overall ticket prices with the away ticket prices. Pretty sure Arsenal away tickets are £62 whilst City's are £56 - they obviously save the most expensive ones for the away fans. But then the cheapest tickets they sell to home supporters are around £26 a pop. Bit worrying to see clubs exploiting the away fans more than the home ones, but I guess they don't mind if the away fans don't show up. I wonder if City fans will protest as much about their own away ticket prices as they did about the Arsenal ones? Full list of most expensive and least expensive tickets for last season is here: http://www.theguardian.com/news/dat...ier-league-ticket-prices-club-charge-the-most Unfortunately it doesn't show how many of each ticket there are, or the average price (I'm guessing Arsenal don't have many of those £126 monsters ). It doesn't make it clear if these prices cover the 'bands' that some clubs used to bump up prices for the big games. But it does show an interesting spread - Newcastle look great value at just £15 for the cheapest ticket, but then their most expensive ticket is the most pricey outside London. And I'm guessing Arsenal don't have that many of those £26 tickets, given their cheapest season ticket is £985, which works out at over £50 per home game...
Arsenal grade their games as A,B, & C.The cheapest tickets for an A game are £64,for a B game £36.50 and C is £26.Away fans pay the same as us.The £126 tickets are only available for cat A of which there are 5 games and there's only a couple of hundred of them. When you say our cheapest season ticket is £985 and works out at £50 game,i hope you have divided the figure by 26 as 7 cup credits are included in the figure.If we don't play 7 cup games the money is taken off the price of the following season's season ticket. On a game by game basis our cheapest season ticket is cheaper than Liverpool's cheapest season ticket and our dearest is cheaper than Tottenhams dearest.
Still seems like your ST holders are getting ripped off. £985 for 26 games works out at about £38 per game. Given you only have five category A games, a holder of the lowest cost ST ends up paying more than someone who just buys the cheapest tickets if most off the games are category B games. That said, the fans still seem to be willing to pay these prices, regardless of their protests, so I guess high prices will continue at grounds for as long as the fans keep stumping up the cash year after year...
This. People keep complaining about the amount of money being pumped into football and how ridiculous the spending is getting, but the problem is, most clubs are spending that much money, and paying players that much money, because of the amount of money they are turning over (obviously certain clubs like Chelsea and City in the past have been different with their rich owners). But at the end of the day, if people are still paying these escalated ticket prices to subsidise these clubs and enable their ridiculous spending, then it will continue. I know TV money is huge these days for football clubs, but still, boycotting games would really hit them where it hurt and give them something to think about. The problem we would then face is players wanting to turn their back on the PL if they think they can earn more money abroad, which is why this would need to be done on a global scale...which would be next to impossible to arrange, so basically we're fuxx0red
Going by last season there were 5 A's,8 B's & 6 C's for league games also the cup games against Spurs & Bayern Munich were designated as category A.
ChristianSmith, with reference to the dippers being the second highest, I believe the all in price includes a 50% reduction on a book about coming second.
