25,000+

[Jace]

Why don't they move the kop and the family stand around that might help the atmosphere and help increase attendances?

[Lasty]

As much as I love lcfc. My money has to go on more important things. 30 quid + for a match day.

They can get lost for that.

I will wait for a birthday offer or some other cheap tickets. 15 quid would be decent.

They have priced many people out of the game my just lcfc but football in general.

Pretty sad really.

Absolutely spot on. I love going down the City as much as the next supporter, but 30 notes for 2nd division football?

[yorkie1999]

They have one - it's called the Family Stand.

No i meant a section that costs a fiver or a tenner to get into for every match

[Corky]

The truth is until we moved to the King Power Stadium, we would barely reach 20,000 in the 2nd division. It rose to a near full house (23,000) most games under O'Neill in the PL but we shouldn't forget that quite frankly we only have 20-30,000 core Leicester fans and there's a fair few alienated by the prices and then there's several thousand drifters. I think our current attendances are nothing to worry about.

 

Yes, we had a fantastic first season for attendances at the KP (with a new stadium and winning games) then obviously full houses in the Premier League. Since then, attendances have remained pretty stable on average, and we've fluctuated between how well/ poorly we've been doing.

 

It's more noticeable now with a bigger ground, but we'd probably get similar (or fewer) at Filbert St if we'd had the same last 10 years.

[Dan]

No i meant a section that costs a fiver or a tenner to get into for every match

 

Aye I was (half) joking. I know what you're saying but the problem is you'll get loads of people complain. I mean I'm a season ticket holder at a reasonable £283 - what incentive is there for me to get one when it can be £230 for the same, without even getting one?

 

Our structure is all wrong and there really is no way out of it other than a total revamp of the ground plan.

[Bayfox]

 

The truth is until we moved to the King Power Stadium, we would barely reach 20,000 in the 2nd division. It rose to a near full house (23,000) most games under O'Neill in the PL but we shouldn't forget that quite frankly we only have 20-30,000 core Leicester fans and there's a fair few alienated by the prices and then there's several thousand drifters. I think our current attendances are nothing to worry about.

 

Here's the crux of the problem, I reckon we only have around 14k who want to turn up week in week out, that's what we had under pleat at filbert st. Thats what we get now, the new stadium and facilities may have added a few thousand due to it attracting families. But you cant' force people to attend.

We live in a City with the most successful club rugby side, we have a high population of asians, who's 1st interest will be cricket. All off these factors dilute the potential for us too get a high percentage of the counties population to attend the football. This coupled with current high prices and the current financial climate we do well to hold the attendances at the level we do.

Let's be honest, if we get attendances in excess of 25k, a lot of the time, how many are there to see the city and how many have come for a day trip to see the opposition as well, take Man City for example. how many of the near sell out crowd came to support the club or just came to say I was there and saw megabucks man city.

[yorkie1999]

Aye I was (half) joking. I know what you're saying but the problem is you'll get loads of people complain. I mean I'm a season ticket holder at a reasonable £283 - what incentive is there for me to get one when it can be £230 for the same, without even getting one?

 

Our structure is all wrong and there really is no way out of it other than a total revamp of the ground plan.

If they had a section that was a fiver, but on a first come first served and the ticket sales were closed an hour before kick off it would mean that the incentive would still be there for a season ticket.

[Thracian]

I know every team in the championship is suffering from falling attendances but we are top of the league. As the old song goes "THIS IS THE SEASON FOR LEICESTER!" Well it could be anyway. So tell a mate, tell your mum, tell your budgie. Get them down to the KING POWER and get behind those boys in blue. I know there were many who doubted Pearson and to some degree still do (I am one of them) but we've got a chance this season. It's a competitive league the pundits always say. It's competitive because the vast majority of teams are poor is the reality. We know that but come on City. The Prem I believe is as close as its been for many a year. Remember when Brian Little came and after 5 or 6 games the attendance jumped up from 11 or 12,000 to 16, 17 18,000. We need to start loving our club again! BLUE ARMY BLUE ARMY EIEIEIO up the .... Remember when we were loud and those two chants blew the roof off the double decker.

 

Diehards on here won't be convinced because they'll follow the team to Hell and back and i've every respect for them but me, I'm all but disillusioned, didn't even dwell on the idea of buying a season ticket, and even this week's game did nothing to change my feelings.

 

I've followed the club into what is my 57th year now but the atmosphere's all but completely disappeared.

And yet, our current team is perfectly capable of inspiring atmosphere even if the forces of law and safety limitations are entirely against it.

 

Our stadium now is more like a corporate waiting room than a seething cauldron of support and expectation. On Tuesday we beat a team that were proud members of the Premiership not too long ago and yet, sitting on the row next to the top row in The Kop I heard one half-hearted chant such was the air of apathy.

 

Yet, City played some smashing football at times and at 2-0 up I really expected them to win by four or five because Blackburn were so poor I could only shake my head.

 

Yet for all our fluidity and cohesion on the ball during our better spells our approach was so typically functional and risk-free. Once we scored there was reduced numerical support for our attacks and even when we were given the cushion of a 2-0 lead from the penalty I don't think we ever went for the throat.

 

The diehards will say "a win is a win and that's what matters" but I and others who've largely shunned the ground now are, in many cases, people who want to be warmed and excited by the football and by a City team all out to score as many goals as they can.

 

With Pearson that doesn't count nearly as much as getting over the line and that means you can hope the team wins from the chair by your radio without the need to pay comparatively big bucks to go and watch because you know that, even if we win, there'll be no real effort to inspire the crowd.

 

Pearson supporters are already pointing to our position in the top two and mocking even mild critics like me. But we were in exactly the same position last season and nothing I saw on Tuesday convinces me we'll be any closer to promotion this season.

 

Yes, we're benefitting from having a settled squad and from having the bonus of Vardy playing with much more confidence, Moore seemingly adding to our solidity at the back and what seems to be fewer glaring weaknesses in the side.

 

But while we still have limitations in our set-up, philosophy and squad depth the saddest  thing to me is that we just don't seem to appreciate how good we are let alone have the character to go out and show it.

 

Even when top of the league our fans didn't get excited and that speaks volumes to me.

 

Tuesday night was a game we could and should have won by four or five goals but we actually contrived to give Blackburn a half-chance they never deserved in the end.

 

I said it last season and it's no different now...we're not ruthless. We don't go for the throat. We don't raise the crowd with a built-in sense of purpose. But that's what winners do. Given the chance they tear teams apart and Tuesday presented just such a chance.

 

In fact though, we let Blackburn off lightly with the three points serving to deflect serious criticism - as it has at other times this season.  

[Karljohn]

I hear you OP but I tried to take up a birthday offer for Blackburn, couldn't get to the fanstore as I live 25 miles away and work so I rang 3 times and guess what ? I couldn't get through. . What I did get was just shy of ten quid on my phonebill though. .

[truebluethroughandthrough]

One way I think attendances will rise is if the pricing in general is fair for a start. Why pay more to sit in l or k than the kop?

 I know it's long been a factor in pricing at stadiums but I've now sat in every stand apart from the hospitality bit, and no view is any better or worse.

So because I want to sing and support my team as best I can I have to pay more than anyone who chooses to sit  50 yards to my left??? Joke!

From next season make every seat 20 quid for every game.

Knock 60 off for STHs.

15 quid for all under22 and students and keep the kids concessions going.

What the club loses in reductions will be gained in more bums on seats and more matchday  revenue.

And then maybe we will be looking at a vast rise in attendance and atmosphere.

[Quorndon_Fox]

Maybe having a easier to use website might help or possibly a ticket line that is answered immediately when you call, heres a mad idea maybe they could have people manning the phone outside of 9am - 5pm!

 

Totally agree with some of the ideas on here. Why not stack um high and sell um cheap. Surely selling tickets at £10 / £15 / £20 for adults and £3 / £5 / £8 for kids will get people in and bums on seats. Then the focus is on the money spent around the ground, increase revenue by improving bars / catering, merch outlets, bookies on the concourse will generate much more cash on match days than charging a half empty stadium £30 a pop ever would.

[ithuriel]

People are not convinced yet, I am no longer convinced that we get promoted under Nige, we disintergrated last season and barely made the play offs and rather than expecting us to finish in the top two I'm expecting us to struggle to reach the play offs yet again.

If, if we remain in top spot for six to seven games things may change but we will not so do not expect people to start coming down in droves to watch just another season in the second tier.

Another thing that has put people off was the constant switching of matches last season to fill TV spots, any week day matches immediately mean I cant go due to work and I know a few other peeps who are the same, due to the switching I know of peeps who spent their cash watching the Speedway instead.

[Number 6]

Agree with a lot of what has been said. Think the club could try harder to fill the stadium and reward those loyal fans. However, in the last couple of years we have had interest free payments for season tickets, and tickets to extra games if you miss a game on your ST. Both of these were welcome additions.

[Guest kristianity77]

I'll admit I've not been this season yet and I didn't for the second half of last season because I can't really justify paying £30 for 90 minutes of entertainment in the current climate.  It is currently way too expensive for what it is.  What I dont get is, if a season ticket now is £283 as a poster above states which works out at just over £12 per game, why is someone who decides to go on the day having to pay 250% more just to attend the same game.  Its absurd.

 

I totally understand that whoever decides to pay upfront for the entire year should get a better deal, but that hike in price for people who cannot afford a season ticket or just simply won't buy one because they cannot commit to all the home games is ridiculous.

 

For me, everybody that is stayaway at the moment will have a bite point where they would go, providing the prices for games were right.  I think its also getting to the point now where people who probably can afford to shell £30 for a game aren't doing on principle (I know a few personally that won't go because they say its overpriced.)

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

I know every team in the championship is suffering from falling attendances but we are top of the league. As the old song goes "THIS IS THE SEASON FOR LEICESTER!" Well it could be anyway. So tell a mate, tell your mum, tell your budgie. Get them down to the KING POWER and get behind those boys in blue. I know there were many who doubted Pearson and to some degree still do (I am one of them) but we've got a chance this season. It's a competitive league the pundits always say. It's competitive because the vast majority of teams are poor is the reality. We know that but come on City. The Prem I believe is as close as its been for many a year. Remember when Brian Little came and after 5 or 6 games the attendance jumped up from 11 or 12,000 to 16, 17 18,000. We need to start loving our club again! BLUE ARMY BLUE ARMY EIEIEIO up the .... Remember when we were loud and those two chants blew the roof off the double decker.

Very funny. Next joke please.

[Kitchandro]

No i meant a section that costs a fiver or a tenner to get into for every match

 

The family stand is usually full nowadays. The Kop on the other hand has a depressing amount of empty seats.

[Fox42]

Isn't that how much Wasyl thought the maximum capacity of our stadium is?

[Jace]

Just having an online ticket system that works would be a huge step in the right direction to increase ticket sales. Not sure how the club expects to sell tickets when the majority of people who try are unable to do so.

[Spiritwalker]

I usually go to 10+ home games and a couple of aways.

I haven't been this season yet because the thought of

parting with £30 fills me with dread.

What I need is a young boy (preferably under 8) to accompany

me to some games.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

I usually go to between 6 and 10 home games and 1 or 2 if I'm lucky away but I haven't been yet this season. Partly because of shifts I'm doing at present, partly because I have an 8 month old daughter that because my wife works shifts also I need to look after etc etc and partly because like a lot of others I'm struggling to justify spending 30 squiddlers a ticket when I can barely afford the mortgage on the house I've just moved to

[Kitchandro]

I usually go to 10+ home games and a couple of aways.

I haven't been this season yet because the thought of

parting with £30 fills me with dread.

What I need is a young boy (preferably under 8) to accompany

me to some games.

 

 

 

You better hope no forum members are part of Letzgo Hunting.

[deanolegend1989]

Tryed recently to get tickets for the Wigan game. The online system didnt let me so decided I wouldnt bother...I mean living down south in Brighton its alot for travel and somewhere to stay etc..its not good value. around £20 a game would be about fair and would probably see us get up to 23-25k most weeks.

[MattyFromLE]

The internet booking system is a bit clunky - I always ring them! I think people forget that at Filbert Street we weren't selling out in the Premier League all those years ago. 21k isn't bad in this league. Although, I'd love nothing more than English football to imitate German prices for games - would mean a lot more full stadiums.

[Neil_LCFC]

Season ticket prices are reasonable and can work out from around £17 a game which is fine if you can make or want to make every game.

 It then gets ridiculous if someone decides on the saturday morning that they fancy popping down the footy they are hit with £31 for a ticket which is the £29 plus the crazy 2 quid extra for paying on the day.

This means you can have 2 people sat next to each other one paying £17 for the game as a season ticket holder and the walk up fan £31,

 This is far too large a difference and £31 for 2nd division football is a scandal  that is before we even start on the platinum price fiasco.,

The walk up crowd has virtually disappeared, priced out of going to the games it should be £25 maximum anywhere in the ground with no platinum  games whilst we are in this division.

[pleatout]

 

There will be many who can remember attendances of around 9000 at the old Filbert Street when walk up prices were considered ok.

 From memory just under 6000,  v Shrewsbury, february night and it was freezing!

 

few months [seasons?] before 30,000 v Shrewsbury for the 6th round game.  Where were the 24,000?  Same place they are now.

 

I've got no issues with those that pick and choose thier games for whatever reason, finance, entertainment value, work, kids etc etc.  I do have an issue with those that will only turn up when we've been promoted.  Remember they haven't come to see Leicester, they've come to see United,  man City, Arsenal, Chelsea or who ever.  Do they really want to pay £30+ to see us stuffed out of sight?

 

I'd sooner see a performance like the Wigan game every week than 0-5 against Bolton.