The cost of going to the match - BBC

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A lack of narrative potentially renders it less so though. I assume the ticket prices are cheapest/dearest? And we're only doing 2 x Cat C games this season? If so, we're only cheap on 2 out of 23 occasions.Without any indication of availability of the cheapest tickets the whole premise is flawed imho.

Though the guy at Compass can certainly breathe a little easier.

And for grade 3 football, everybody is taking the piss.
 
raul said:
A lack of narrative potentially renders it less so though. I assume the ticket prices are cheapest/dearest? And we're only doing 2 x Cat C games this season? If so, we're only cheap on 2 out of 23 occasions.Without any indication of availability of the cheapest tickets the whole premise is flawed imho.

Though the guy at Compass can certainly breathe a little easier.

And for grade 3 football, everybody is taking the piss.
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I'll reserve judgement on that til i've sampled the quality of yeovil's pies.
 
loooks fookin cheap ................. compaired to a day shoppin wi our gert ! :eek:
 
This is the third tier of English football. And we look at £31.00 for a ticket for a "catagory A" game (I assume this is what it means). How the fuck can any game be classed as a catagory A game at this level?

We were paying £25 to see Man United and Arsenal play 5 years ago and now we are paying £31.00 to see (potentially) Huddersfield Town et al. FFS its an embarrasment.
 
£40 to see orient, jesus christ.
intresting that wendy are among the most expensive with lowest tickets at £18.
i agree with bladesway, apart from maybe wendy game surely all others are cat C at best, and tbh after the shite served up last season they should be paying us to watch such as stevenage, yoevil etc.
im pretty sure some of these prices are of a similar level to championship and even premiership prices which is scandalous could even be criminal, i personally wouldnt pay the same for a clapped out ford focus as i would a ferrari and huddersfield are by no stretch of the imagination a ferrari :)

MunXy
 
I expect we'll be Cat A for most away games this season. Could turn out to be an expensive one.
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14366574.stm

Interesting in that it's something debated a lot on here :)

Only 11 out of the 104 clubs in England and Scotland will offer adults the chance to enjoy a day at the football for less than £20 during the new season.

A survey by the BBC Sport website of every club in the four English divisions and Scottish Premier League showed that fans in the north west have some of the cheapest deals available for matchday tickets.

Clubs were asked for their cheapest and most expensive possible matchday adult tickets, as well as the prices for a cup of tea, a programme, and a pie in order to work out the price of enjoying a day at the football for fans without season tickets.

In the Premier League Blackburn Rovers offered the best deal at £17.50, while Watford's £17.30 represented the best deal in the Championship. Rochdale and Preston in League One and Rotherham and Torquay in League Two also came in cheapest in their divisions, while Inverness are the best value for money in the Scottish Premier League.

This weekend sees the start of the Football League season in England - a competition which attracted more than 16m fans across its three divisions last season.

John Nagle, head of communications at the Football League, said: "Football League clubs are working extremely hard to attract the next generation of fans through a variety of innovative marketing initiatives. As a result, crowds in recent seasons have been at their highest levels for 50 years."

"Much of the focus is on improving the matchday experience for supporters, particularly families. This has seen the League introduce a programme of 'mystery shopper' visits to matches in order to assess the experience and the introduction of the Family Excellence Award, to reward those clubs that are offering a particularly outstanding day out."

Despite the high attendance figures - an average of 352,260 fans attended Football League fixtures each weekend last season - the chairman of the Football Supporters' Federation Malcolm Clarke says clubs must work harder to ensure football does not become too expensive for ordinary fans.

"This is an industry that has more money going into it at the top of the game through media rights than it's ever had before," said Clarke.

"It's important that football continues to be attractive to the whole cross-section of society, so it doesn't just become something only middle-class and upper-class families can afford."

But despite the prices demand remains strong. Arsenal have the most expensive ticket in domestic football at £100 for one of five category A games for the new season - representing just 1% of tickets available. More than 60,000 fans turned out to watch them draw 2-2 with Boca Juniors in a friendly at the Emirates Stadium last weekend.

And a spokesman for the Premier League pointed out that fans are not being turned off by the expense.

"With Premier League grounds over 92% full on average in each of the last three seasons, fans are clearly enjoying the football, and the overall matchday experiences, that are on offer," said a Premier League statement.

"It is also worth taking into account that fans want to watch games featuring top talent in safe stadia; our clubs have invested more than £2bn in facilities and continue to invest heavily in developing and acquiring the best possible players to make the whole fan experience as good as possible."

But football matches compare favourably with other live sport. The cheapest day out at Super League side Hull FC is £27, while an equivalent day watching England's four-day victory over India at Trent Bridge would have cost at least £41.10.

Newcastle United were the only club out of the 104 surveyed who did not reveal their prices.
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Highbury_Blade said:
It please me that we're one of the few that can boast that our cheapest day out is under £20. Very disappointed with the state of football that league 1 and 2 clubs are taking the piss somewhat.
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I don't think it's a matter of them taking the piss, I think its a matter of them having to cover their costs more. League 1 and 2 clubs don't make enough money on tv rights and sponsorship deals like the Prem and Championship, so their only alternative is to charge more. The state of football at the top level is what mainly makes this like it is.
 
Flatulent_Bob said:
Do we know which of our home games are Cat A, B, C?
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It used to tell you on the fixture list but it doesn't this year (nor does it on the pocket size fixture lists).

Brentford and Walsall are cat B according to the ticket details on site.
 
Price of football - from the BBC

It's a very comprehensive breakdown of all the clubs prices
We don;'t look too bad TBH

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14366574.stm

Only 11 out of the 104 clubs in England and Scotland will offer adults the chance to enjoy a day at the football for less than £20 during the new season.

A survey by the BBC Sport website of every club in the four English divisions and Scottish Premier League showed that fans in the north west have some of the cheapest deals available for matchday tickets.
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and the League 1 table
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14367610.stm
 

raul said:
A lack of narrative potentially renders it less so though. I assume the ticket prices are cheapest/dearest? And we're only doing 2 x Cat C games this season? If so, we're only cheap on 2 out of 23 occasions.Without any indication of availability of the cheapest tickets the whole premise is flawed imho.

Though the guy at Compass can certainly breathe a little easier.

And for grade 3 football, everybody is taking the piss.
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Skimmed the figures and unless there's more to them they seem meaningless.

Unless they compare average ticket prices over a season then the table means nowt.

Club A's cheapest seats maybe £10 but for only two games per season and at all other games £25.

Club B's cheap seats may be £15 for 10 games per season with it's most expensive £20.

This 'reasearch' would show club A as the 'cheap club' despite club B being far cheaper.

Still, I guess the masses will get taken in by it.
 
Tuns said:
Skimmed the figures and unless there's more to them they seem meaningless.

Unless they compare average ticket prices over a season then the table means nowt.

Club A's cheapest seats maybe £10 but for only two games per season and at all other games £25.

Club B's cheap seats may be £15 for 10 games per season with it's most expensive £20.

This 'reasearch' would show club A as the 'cheap club' despite club B being far cheaper.

Still, I guess Micalijo will get taken in by it.
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Fixed, given he'll be along anyway.....
 
Someone has pointed out on SF, our lowest ticket price is actually £13, so the article is wrong for us, so I wonder how many more they have wrong.
 
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