Cheap, affordable football.

[mowgli77]

As some will be aware season tickets at Bradford City were £138 this year, working out at around £6 a game for 23 home games. We got around 9,000 adult season ticket holders and a few thousand kids with season tickets. Crowds have been around 13-14,000 each home game.

We have just announced next years prices and they have gone up........

.....by a whopping £12. It will be £150 for a season ticket and no doubt we will once again be playing in league two. The extra incentive is that if we get 9,000 adult season ticket holders again every season ticket holder will be given an additional season ticket for FREE.

There may be a problem here with people paying £75 each hoping to get two season tickets and we may not hit that 9,000 target. £150 is peanuts for 23 games of football, whatever level it is at. If we manage to hit that 9,000 and can bring another 9,000 with us every game we will be looking at around 20,000 + each home game for League Two which is pretty exceptional.

Mike Parry from Talksport was on ITV Soccer Night last night and he feels that lower league football needs to be regionalised and that a club can not afford to offer such cheap prices and survive financially. Obviously there is money to be made from merchandise and food etc on match days so do you think many other clubs would follow suit and do you think £150 for a season ticket is a good step for football that others would benefit from trying.

I'm realistic to know that if we were paying around £300 for a season ticket we would have crowds of around 6,000 every game so is it better to have less season ticket holders at massive prices or vice versa?

[Matt]

Quality move from Bradford...

I'll still be stumping up £380 for a season of shit footy whilst being told to sit down by a jobsworth steward for the whole match.....pisses me right off.

[mowgli77]

The 2nd season ticket does not have to be used by the same person each game either which would be ok if you had friends visit regularly. I expected more of an increase in price. £12 increase works out around 50p per game I think. I think Kev pays about same as you to watch Luton and they will be in our league next year. I wonder if we'll still be charging the away fans £20 on the turnstiles? It's also currently £20 for home fans on match day, meaning you have to be mad or skint not to get a season ticket.

[AJ]

Of course getting 2 people through the gate paying a tenner each is better than a single person paying twenty quid.

Better for the team in terms of support, better atmosphere, and you make money in parking and catering charges anyway.

[Valiant23]

Originally Posted by mowgli77

The 2nd season ticket does not have to be used by the same person each game either which would be ok if you had friends visit regularly. I expected more of an increase in price. £12 increase works out around 50p per game I think. I think Kev pays about same as you to watch Luton and they will be in our league next year. I wonder if we'll still be charging the away fans £20 on the turnstiles? It's also currently £20 for home fans on match day, meaning you have to be mad or skint not to get a season ticket.

Its a superb idea and at that price its affordable. In fact its that cheap you'd have to be a fool not to buy one.

The only problem is that Bradford are a sleeping giant, certainly at L2 level and so they probably have 20,000 'fans'.

We'd do well to get 8,000.

[kevshat]

Originally Posted by mowgli77

The 2nd season ticket does not have to be used by the same person each game either which would be ok if you had friends visit regularly. I expected more of an increase in price. £12 increase works out around 50p per game I think. I think Kev pays about same as you to watch Luton and they will be in our league next year. I wonder if we'll still be charging the away fans £20 on the turnstiles? It's also currently £20 for home fans on match day, meaning you have to be mad or skint not to get a season ticket.

Shame they didn't do that this year, I could've avoided paying £20 to watch two thirds of a match then . Seriously though, it's an excellent offer and that day I was there with you it was a decent atmosphere despite not being the best game we'll have seen all season .

I paid £396 for my season ticket this season and can't see me paying much less next season given our financial status but who knows, when we finally move into a new ground, if I'm still alive, I might see us doing the same thing as Bradford.

[davidmphill]

Great thinking on behalf of Bradford, makes no sense to play in half full grounds. If only many other clubs would follow suit.

[aliando]

well, they do say you get what you pay for....