Putting this up now to get the discussion flowing before the results are revealed tomorrow. Should make interesting reading. The Price of Football 2014 From the cost of a ticket to replica shirts, eating pies to reading programmes, from Arsenal to Alloa to Atletico, on Wednesday BBC Sport will publish its biggest annual Price of Football study. Covering 176 clubs in British football across 11 divisions, the report looks at prices in England, from the Premier League to the Conference, and the Women's Super League 1 and 2 - as well as the top four divisions in Scotland. This year, for the first time since the study started in 2011, prices from 31 of Europe's top clubs, covering 10 different leagues, are also included, as will be the cost of an adult or junior replica shirt. On the BBC Sport website you will be able to work out your personal cost of following your team every year - including cost per home goal - on our Price of Football calculator and read the full results from all 207 clubs. You can get involved in the debate and discussion across the day on the BBC Sport Facebook page, on Twitter by using the #PriceofFootball hashtag or texting 81111. The coverage across the BBC will include: All the results for every club - and the Price of Football calculator on the BBC Sport website. Sports editor Dan Roan's interview with Minister for Sport Helen Grant on the BBC's Six O'Clock news BBC Radio 5 live's new Afternoon Edition Show, with Dan Walker and Sarah Brett, live from Manchester City's Etihad Stadium, talking to fans and the decision makers in the game. The BBC News Channel will have live reports throughout the day and a special Sportsday programme at 18.30 BST. Rolling updates, debate, discussion and reaction from across the world of football in Sportsday Live on the BBC Sport website. A report on the English fans saving money by travelling to Germany to watch football, how clubs in the north east of England are attempting to improve fans' match-day experience and what makes the pies at Morecambe so special. Additional coverage across BBC Radio 5 live's Wake Up To Money from 05.15 BST, Radio Four's You and Yours, Radio One's Newsbeat and local BBC radio stations. (reference: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29613844)
All well and good but will the powers act on any of the findings or is this just "desk top" exercise confirming what we already know is that the football supporters a cash cow for some if not all professional clubs .
Like everything else I guess..... when people stop being prepared to pay the prices asked then things will change. Same with any business. But at the moment there's no sign of that. How long is our ST waiting list again? Exactly. I'm sure someone knows the answer but how do the Germans do it? They have some of the best teams in Europe, superb stadia and are able to attract top footballers.
why bony if I am willing to pay 2000 to travel for a game and it would only be 2 or 3 a season and then let someone else use the ticket
With our replica kits from £45-60 depending on what badges and prints you want, general sale match tickets either £35 or £45 for Category B and A games respectively, season tickets hovering around the £450-£500 mark for adults, and the food in the stadium being rather costly, how are we thinking the Swans will fare against the rest in this study? Are we par for the course?
Here we go! Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29614980 Club-by-club and Cost Calculator: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29527838
Having had a quick look at the Premier League figures before I knuckle down to some work, the one thing I notice about our prices (not exclusively us) is that we don't appreciate that there are poorer and richer people in Swansea who want to watch football. For less well-off people, £35 and £45 is a huge chunk. You look at Leicester, Hull, Newcastle and West Ham and you see the cheapest ticket between £15 and £20, and the most expensive between £40 and £50. That's the right way to do it. You give the less rich people a chance to pick up tickets at rates they can afford, and make back the money on the people who can afford more expensive tickets. You see this pattern throughout Europe as well. Barcelona, Real Madrid, PSG and Bayern Munich all offer cheapest tickets of less than £20 (and Bayern aside, the rest have hugely expensive high-end tickets). These cheap tickets would have to be in the most undesirable areas of our stadium (i.e. right in the stadium corners and upper tier behind the screens). Then the ticket prices would work upwards from there as areas of the stadium become more desirable. When I was in Milan a few weekends ago, I could've gone to see AC Milan vs Juventus. There were 4 tickets in the stadium remaining - 1 for €28 (high upper tier behind goal), 2 for around €128 (main stand lower inline with penalty area), and 1 for around €330 (main stand hospitality section half way line). To just blanket the whole stadium with £35 or £45 depending on the game category is a very lazy approach from our board. Supporters pay the same and end up with worse quality seats/views. My mate could only get season tickets right next to the away fans this season. He and his girlfriend (who bought them without knowing the effect of sitting by away fans) take a lot of abuse from them and find it hard to focus on the game, yet they had to pay the same as everyone else? Those tickets should have been dirt cheap with a warning attached. We need to sort this out and start charging people for the situation/view they are buying, not just the seat.
This should be a wakeup call: Alfreton Town in the Conference: £289 Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga: £109.65 This egghead seems to think we're a 'model for other clubs': http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29621248
Surely its got a lot to do with the ground capacity as to the extent of flexibility you can apply to seat prices. Newcastle are fortunate in that they attract good gates and have a large capacity so can afford to offer cheaper seats. We dont have either of those currently so we would have to take a financial hit on reduced charges - but agree re charging top whack to get a weekly abuse from away fans.
My son's ST is right next to the away fans - yes just an aisle away. Paid a lot for it too. Most away fans are OK. Worst so far? Burnley. Best? Newcastle.
I do agree that stadium size has a direct effect on the ability for a club to charge more/less for some seats. However, you highlight Newcastle (who I mentioned in my post). But Leicester, Hull and West Ham have much smaller grounds in comparison to Newcastle yet offer comparable ticket prices (both cheapest and most expensive). How do they do it? I'd say by making a decision at board level to make football accessible to everyone, not just some. I'm going to watch the Swans vs Arsenal, paid £45 for my ticket. Honestly, it felt like I'd had my heart ripped out to pay for it. It's too much. £45 to sit in a premium seat on the half way line, yes, but to sit in the corner? You're having a laugh...
There is a waiting list of local people that's very long so no offence musty I doubt whether they'd proiritise someone who may only use the ticket 2 or 3 times a season. After all, there is nothing to compel you to give your ticket to another person for the rest of the time and we'd have an empty seat - a dangerous precedent imo. They should write to you and say that though.
He's right you know, take all those cheapest tickets from 10 teams and they won't reach the 20,000 available seats in our stadium. That's what the guy is getting at. These cheaper tickets at other clubs are almost impossible to get because the club's offer so few of them, and if you can't get one but really want a ticket to see another club then you are paying more than Swansea's £35 price tag.
From me or the club ? unlikely you'll have an explanation from them and as from me , what can I say other than to agree with Dragon's post above .
fair call Dragon however the seat could be used by someone I gave the ticket to, the club have not replied to many emails, requests I have sent them even trying to buy stuff, a disgrace
