bayern Munich are subsidising their fans admission price at Arsenal in the last 16 of the European Champions League - instead of having to pay the outrageous £62 each - Bayern will sell the tickets for £37 paying the balance themselves ... as a gesture of thanks for their fans support throughout the year. Respect due methinks.
Its the last 16 of the best club competition in the sport, although it is a generous gesture, they haveto expect to pay that kind of money.
... don't agree - suspect Arsenal fans will be paying half that for the return leg ... greed, pure and simple ... OK this doen't apply to Arsenal but over pricing is one of the main reasons that there are so many empty seats on matchdays ...
Arsenal season tickets are a ridiculous price. All of my wifes family are Arsenal fans but just cant afford to go to the matches (apart from one who has paid over 2 grand for his season ticket). It aint a game for the working man any more.
But there won't be empty seats on a last 16 Champions League matchday. Supply and demand. I think the average, working man should be treated more fairly but Football is a business game now unfortunately. Bayern should be the poster club that all others look up to. They really have nailed it.
No there won't ... but why exploit your own (and other) fans by raising the prices for games not in the season ticket? Not just Bayern - German clubs in general have it sorted - Dortmund play to 80,000 home gates (I've read somewhere) ..
Arsenal ticket - £62 Bayern Munich Season Ticket (in a standing area) - £104 Says it all. £104 to see the best team in Europe is brilliant.
Arsenal always sell out of tickets and fill the ground, even at the ridiculous prices they are at the moment, they gotta pay for Ozil somehow. Its much more of a balancing act for clubs like Leicester though, but no doubt how much the tickets go up next season, if we are in the prem, it will be a struggle to get tickets.
The stadium was built with the intention (architectural infrastructure) to be able to shove in a few more rows and expand to, I think, 45,000 ... obviously it would be daft to do that if we will be coming straight back down ... but our owners are very ambitious (and committed - as the debt:equity swap shows) and regular crowds of 40,000 plus is what you need to be a viable and sustainable Prem proposition ... we live in exciting times!
They have a quaint but rather old fashioned stadium constrained by space (as the old Filbo was) by surrounding buildings etc - I do thimk they would sell another 10,000 regularly if they had the capacity tbf
That is fairly incredible. I'm a student and if I lived in Munich I'd pay that. Hell, I'd even pay that to see my local team (Wednesday).
