Priced out

[Neil_LCFC]

Matchday Ticket Prices Not family stands which are cheaper.

These are the cheapest walk up prices for an adult this season at the following teams.

I couldn't find the prices for the missing teams as they were hidden behind a having to login online ticketing system.

I can now understand Derby losing 5000 fans plus ours & Ipswich's disappointing crowds.

There is a huge difference throughout the division for watching the same standard of football. We are definately one of the most expensive to watch that's for sure.

Maybe someone could fill in the missing teams for me.

Cat A B C D

Leicester £30 £28

Hull £25 £23

QPR £35 £30 £25 £20

Burnley £26

Pompey £20

Forest £28

Leeds £29 £24 £18

S****horpe £21 £20

Doncaster £25 £22 £15

Ipswich £30.50 £28.50 £27.50

Barnsley £25 £22 £15

Derby £34 £31 £28

Watford £27 ?

Swansea £25 £20

Palace £25

Reading £27

Mboro £25 £23

Bristol City £25

Sheff UTD £30 £22 £10

Preston £25 £22

[vim23]

This season i have decided that the club will get no additional money from me. I don't buy the overpriced food, the overpriced merchandise and i now take a flask to the game. I've paid my season ticket and that's enough. It's just way too expensive.

[cambridgefox]

My view is of someone who has a 180 mile round trip,my costs are high before ive got to the match.if i go on my own my fuel on its own is £20 before food and drinks,thus each game costs me £60 at least.To be honest a fiver off a game wouldnt make that much difference!So i tend to pick the more attractive games.i do go to 8 or so games a season,and i know many of you goto away games and would have these costs too.forgive me for being a part timer,but when the kids want to go too, i shit myself as this is then a £100 day!

[Nationwider]

I had a lift to the game on Saturday that would have saved me £40 in petrol, but I passed as I still didn't want to pay £30 to watch a Championship match against a two-bit outfit like Boro out of principle. Extortionate.

The travel costs and time involved mean I bowed out of watching City a year or two ago.

Can't say I miss the Walkers either.

[john_lcfc]

With the Reading game being on the tv, what sort of crowd is expected?

18,000?

Shambles.

I hope are attendances are terrible so the club realises, price matters!!

[volpeazzurro]

I had a lift to the game on Saturday that would have saved me £40 in petrol, but I passed as I still didn't want to pay £30 to watch a Championship match against a two-bit outfit like Boro out of principle. Extortionate.

The travel costs and time involved mean I bowed out of watching City a year or two ago.

Can't say I miss the Walkers either.

There seems to be a growing disenchantment with City and perhaps football in general. My first match was aginst Manure in 1969 and I had season tickets throughout most of the 80's and 90's. After about a four year break (kids arrived), I discovered family season tickets etc. We eventually moved our season tickets to the West stand to be nearer the action etc. When we got promoted back to the Championship I stopped because all of a sudden we got told we couldn't be guarenteed our seats unless we renewed before the end of the season! (lets think about that one, lets pay for a new season ticket before we've seen all the matches from this one, how do you pay for away tickets still left this season, wheres the money coming from) The reason MM stated was to give money to NP for players. Does this man think we are all stupid? Plus 'out of the mouth of babes' my young son said that it was getting a bit boring as on television the players passed the ball to each other, whereas Leicester just kept kicking it up in the air! Lets face it folks, he was right, the club want champagne money to watch mainly beer standard football played by overpaid mediocre players. I like many others previously felt I belonged to something down there but I think now that supporters in general are treated with contempt. So what happened last season? Well as the kids didn't want to go anymore I thought I'd go to a few games with mates etc. The reality was I went to two home matches and one away in total plus listened to a few on the radio. Did I miss it? Not really, I wasn't going to pay £30 for a ticket to watch mainly dour poor matches. Whereas I used to be bursting for the new season to start and get back down to watch the City and reading every hint of a transfer rumour, I guess I just found other things to do (as did three other mates I used to go down with). If City continue to go down this t'reating the supporters like idiots' route then it will perhaps end in tears. Once you loose the habit of going it takes quite a bit to get you bothered again. On the other hand to do fancy popping down to see what Sousa is doing with them, I'll perhaps wait for a cheaper match eh!

Cheers.

[Vestan Pance]

I'm lucky enough to be able to afford the prices but I simply refuse to pay them. I'm going to watch the team where my family come from (Mansfield) £15 and a few local aways too. If City was £20 on the gate i'd be there no question, but £30! no.

[ian_marshall]

I agree with everyone of this forum, the prices at city these days are scandalous and I really feel for those who aren't in a position to afford season tickets. Unfortunately I think the situation will only get worse. I've seen the posts about the implications of reducing the ticket prices and the additional bums on seats required to achieve existing levels of revenue, however everyone seems to be overlooking the clubs aspirations of becoming a Premier League club.

I can imagine Mandaric and the new owners planning at least a 20% increase in season ticket prices should the club be promoted, as they know that tickets for Premier League fixtures will be in demand from the closet City supporters who creep out the woodwork whenever there's the first sign of success and the general footie fan who isn't interested in Leicester but wants to watch Premier League stars week in, week out.

For this reason alone ticket prices won't be reduced as they'll have their sights set on a value they feel is representative of Premier League football. Hypothetically speaking, if they were to reduce ticket prices by say 20% this season, and promotion was achieved, next seasons prices would likely increase by 40% to achieve the value the owners desire for top flight football in the city. However, the owners would have to be foolish to do this as it would represent a major PR disaster for them and give the media an absolute field day, hence the reason why tickets this season won't decease in value. Essentially ticket prices this season provide a benchmark/platform for next seasons prices.

[Leicester_Loyal]

Does anyone actually think prices will come down soon? I'd love to see a £5 reduction, but can't see it happening unless the stadium gets less than half its capacity full.

[Narborough_fox]

Got FourFourTwo and was reading that the highest Leicester ticket was 11th out of the 92 football football clubs. Ipswich were 4th!

I can see why people have stopped going the prices are ridiculous.

[Leicester_Loyal]

Naroborugh, can you give us the top 10 please

[fleckneymike]

eh?

So why couldnt they drop the prices? £10 less and they would only need to shift 3,500 more? I reckon they could shift that many at least.

They possibly could but why would you?

Like I've posted before if you can make the same amount of money selling less you do, that's how business works.

They throw in some 'fans fixtures' as loss leaders once or twice a season but these have no real impact on long term ticket sales.

I don't disagree that prices are high but I think it's a non issue for the club as they know they are guaranteed a certain income level under the current pricing structure.

[markbsac]

i love leicester and ive been going since a 6 year old in 1969...im due to be made redundant...........so i think it will be radio leicester commentary from now on..........its just too expensive !

[Narborough_fox]

No Leicester were 19th my apologies, highest season ticket price of £590

Arsenal £1825

Spurs £1695

Chelsea £1210

Ipswich £1001

Newcastle £975

Man Utd £931

Fulham £890

West Ham £850

Liverpool £785

QPR £699

Cheapest Premier League ticket Wigan £295

This list is the most expensive Season ticket list.

[Vestan Pance]

i love leicester and ive been going since a 6 year old in 1969...im due to be made redundant...........so i think it will be radio leicester commentary from now on..........its just too expensive !

Sorry to hear that. Keep an eye out for the live streaming links, very useful

[Spiritwalker]

I'm not sure whether everyone one here is being thick or just doesn't understand business.

As a business the club wants as much money as they possibly can get up front - start of the year. To encourage people to give up their money up front they will make the matchday prices noticably higher and the worse option.

The benefits of having this money up front means that it can be invested throughout the year and my guess is that the club probably make more money from doing this than they do from the individual ticket sales throughout the year.

Having this money up front also means that if they want to play around with debt (personal/club/whatever) they are working on the basis of guaranteed revenue and not forecasted, which gives you many more options when it comes to the banks. It also means that your club value will be higher, which in this time of shareholders and buy outs is probably one of the most important things to the chairman

I'm sorry for being so thick and not understanding business, maybe if the club raised matchday tickets

to £60 and only sold 4,000 they would make even more money. Then again maybe you and the club

are missing the point, short term profits at the expense of hard pressed loyal fans may not be in the

clubs long term interest.

[ian_marshall]

No Leicester were 19th my apologies, highest season ticket price of £590

Arsenal £1825

Spurs £1695

Chelsea £1210

Ipswich £1001

Newcastle £975

Man Utd £931

Fulham £890

West Ham £850

Liverpool £785

QPR £699

Cheapest Premier League ticket Wigan £295

This list is the most expensive Season ticket list.

This sounds about right. A friend of mine goes to watch Arsenal ocassionally and I'm sure he said a couple of seasons back that tickets for some games were priced at £80. I couldn't believe how much they'd increased since their move to the Emirates, unbelievable!

[Leicester_Loyal]

Cheers Narborough, thanks for that list.

[unreachable]

Does anyone actually think prices will come down soon? I'd love to see a £5 reduction, but can't see it happening unless the stadium gets less than half its capacity full.

Why? You already have a season ticket for this season.

[markbsac]

im really pissed off ...i never thought i would see the day when leicester city priced me out of going to see my beloved team.....nearly 40 years ive been going ......now i will have to go to the odd game as a luxury...i rem as a kid cueing up on matchday outside sk4 ..i think i paid 50p ...but the atmosphere a packed ground all standing...being crushed againt barriers when the crowd serged.......its all over aint it.....i will always be a fan of my loved leicester city....blue army

[fleckneymike]

I'm sorry for being so thick and not understanding business, maybe if the club raised matchday tickets

to £60 and only sold 4,000 they would make even more money. Then again maybe you and the club

are missing the point, short term profits at the expense of hard pressed loyal fans may not be in the

clubs long term interest.

If you can't afford to go I'd say you're not the sort of fan the club wants (I hasten to add I think that's a horrible attitude but it's one I think ours have unfortunately), these are still relative boom times for clubs with average attendances still on the rise so until there is a slump there will be no change.

The pricing structure at Leicester (or most clubs for that matter) is aimed squarely at the middle class, that's currently where the money is and business will always chase the money. The average age of football fans is now somewhere around 40-50 who are generally the most affluent members of society so pricing structures reflect that.

[Neil_LCFC]

I don't disagree that prices are high but I think it's a non issue for the club as they know they are guaranteed a certain income level under the current pricing structure.

Or they think they are guaranteed an income on an average gate of say 24000 but they could be in for a rude awakening if it is more like 20000. which is quite possible unless we get around the playoffs from early on. People won't pay £30 on the gate to watch a bottom half championship side leaving 14000 season ticket holders & 1000 away fans plus a couple of thousand others rattling around a half empty ground.

[Leicester_Loyal]

Why? You already have a season ticket for this season.

You remember too much

I just would love to be at a match with 32,000 fans. I hope it happens with the current prices, but can only see it happening against Forest or Derby.

Also a few of my friends would go, they don't atm because we've just finished school and they don't have any money. I'm ok though, because I have a job.

[J.Lisemore]

You remember too much

I just would love to be at a match with 32,000 fans. I hope it happens with the current prices, but can only see it happening against Forest or Derby.

Also a few of my friends would go, they don't atm because we've just finished school and they don't have any money. I'm ok though, because I have a job.

You might be waiting a long time at this rate.

[fleckneymike]

Or they think they are guaranteed an income on an average gate of say 24000 but they could be in for a rude awakening if it is more like 20000. which is quite possible unless we get around the playoffs from early on. People won't pay £30 on the gate to watch a bottom half championship side leaving 14000 season ticket holders & 1000 away fans plus a couple of thousand others rattling around a half empty ground.

Well it's normally 21,000 for most home games, it's only the Forest, Derby and Leeds games which will draw big games.

The pricing structure for ST's and match day tickets is worked out pre season and it isn't going to change during this season.