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Season Tickets !!!! - Baggie_One - 10-05-2018
https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/west-bromwich-albion/2018/05/10/west-brom-slash-season-ticket-prices-following-relegation-from-the-premier-league/
The Baggies have announced drastic reductions which will see adult season ticket-holders in all areas of the ground make a saving of £70 compared to last summer’s prices - and up to £51 in the early bird window.
Adult tickets in the Birmingham Road and Smethwick Ends for the 2018/19 Championship campaign now start at £329, or the equivalent of £14.31 per game.
In a bid to bring in younger fans, the club has extended its under-11 price category to all areas of The Hawthorns, with tickets costing just £49.
The under-17 category, in which tickets are priced £99, has meanwhile been extended to under-18. Seniors can pick up their season ticket for as little as £269.
Read more at https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/west-bromwich-albion/2018/05/10/west-brom-slash-season-ticket-prices-following-relegation-from-the-premier-league/#FQkMoZBkmrw0Xkif.99
RE: Season Tickets !!!! - Beefy 1965 - 10-05-2018
Making all the right noises
Good start so far
Lowest price for 10 years !!!
Full story on #wba 2018/19 season ticket prices. Adult tickets in Birmingham Road and Smethwick Ends now just £329 as Baggies seek to re-engage with fans.... https://t.co/OikEZGrjKg
RE: Season Tickets !!!! - talkSAFT - 10-05-2018
(10-05-2018, 12:39)Baggie_One Wrote: https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/west-bromwich-albion/2018/05/10/west-brom-slash-season-ticket-prices-following-relegation-from-the-premier-league/
The Baggies have announced drastic reductions which will see adult season ticket-holders in all areas of the ground make a saving of £70 compared to last summer’s prices - and up to £51 in the early bird window.
Adult tickets in the Birmingham Road and Smethwick Ends for the 2018/19 Championship campaign now start at £329, or the equivalent of £14.31 per game.
In a bid to bring in younger fans, the club has extended its under-11 price category to all areas of The Hawthorns, with tickets costing just £49.
The under-17 category, in which tickets are priced £99, has meanwhile been extended to under-18. Seniors can pick up their season ticket for as little as £269.
Read more at https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/west-bromwich-albion/2018/05/10/west-brom-slash-season-ticket-prices-following-relegation-from-the-premier-league/#FQkMoZBkmrw0Xkif.99
Wow. That's good value. I remember talking to an Arsenal fan about 8 years ago, who asked how much my ticket was. I said about £300, and he stared in disbelief. Arsenal prices were £900 cheapest - back then!
RE: Season Tickets !!!! - Zinman - 10-05-2018
Great news but it presents me with a dilemma. There is a strong possibility that I will be moving overseas before the end of next season but having given up my season ticket after 18 months of Pulis, I really feel ready to return. So should I:
1. Not bother with a season ticket, go on a match by match basis, safe in the knowledge that, if we do a Sunderland or my move happens early, I'll have saved my money or
2. Buy the ticket and, if the move happens early, donate it to a worthy cause (see below) or
3. Buy the ticket and do everything in my power to delay the move until the end of the season (risking (another) costly divorce)?
(Note: anyone suggesting option 2 will automatically be disqualified from being the worthy cause.)
RE: Season Tickets !!!! - St Charles Owl - 10-05-2018
By comparison, here are our Early-bird ST prices for next season, 2nd phase just gone on sale and are higher than these obviously:
![[Image: st-early-bird-prices.jpg]](https://www.swfc.co.uk/siteassets/image/random-things/st-early-bird-prices.jpg)
RE: Season Tickets !!!! - Beefy 1965 - 11-05-2018
Blimey SCO they seem quite a lot !!!
Zinman your going nowhere you have a Job on the prediction league and are under contract.
If you choose to leave you will owe me and Bomber thousands !!!
You have been warned
RE: Season Tickets !!!! - St Charles Owl - 11-05-2018
(11-05-2018, 00:06)Beefy 1965 Wrote: Blimey SCO they seem quite a lot !!!
They are high, one of the highest in the division as you will find when you come to S6 next season, I think we charged Villa fans over 40 pounds when they came to Hillsborough. Unfortunately ticket sales are by far the largest chunk of our revenue so they have to be high to keep us within FFP without the tv money that the PL gets. You will find similar situations at other Championship clubs who are trying to compete with ex-PL teams on parachute payments. We sold 23k STs this season at similar prices and apparently are running at about that level again next season.
RE: Season Tickets !!!! - Beefy 1965 - 11-05-2018
(11-05-2018, 00:29)St Charles Owl Wrote:(11-05-2018, 00:06)Beefy 1965 Wrote: Blimey SCO they seem quite a lot !!!
They are high, one of the highest in the division as you will find when you come to S6 next season, I think we charged Villa fans over 40 pounds when they came to Hillsborough. Unfortunately ticket sales are by far the largest chunk of our revenue so they have to be high to keep us within FFP without the tv money that the PL gets. You will find similar situations at other Championship clubs who are trying to compete with ex-PL teams on parachute payments. We sold 23k STs this season at similar prices and apparently are running at about that level again next season.
Where as I suppose with our parachute payments we can keep ours low ?
RE: Season Tickets !!!! - St Charles Owl - 11-05-2018
(11-05-2018, 00:48)Beefy 1965 Wrote:(11-05-2018, 00:29)St Charles Owl Wrote:(11-05-2018, 00:06)Beefy 1965 Wrote: Blimey SCO they seem quite a lot !!!
They are high, one of the highest in the division as you will find when you come to S6 next season, I think we charged Villa fans over 40 pounds when they came to Hillsborough. Unfortunately ticket sales are by far the largest chunk of our revenue so they have to be high to keep us within FFP without the tv money that the PL gets. You will find similar situations at other Championship clubs who are trying to compete with ex-PL teams on parachute payments. We sold 23k STs this season at similar prices and apparently are running at about that level again next season.
Where as I suppose with our parachute payments we can keep ours low ?
Yes, I believe our ticket revenue in our most recent accounts was about 17m against a total turnover of 23.4m, so it accounts for 73% of our revenue. After everything else is added in we still made a loss of nearly 21m!!! Now our owner can afford that easily but when you add in the previous years loss of just under 10m then you can see how we are struggling to keep within the maximum losses of 39m over a three season span.
Compare that to you next season receiving a parachute payment of about 60m from the PL (2.5 times our total revenue!!) and then add onto that the 25m+ or so you should get from ticket sales and commercial activities and you can see how the PL TV money and how it is distributed completely skews the Championship in the favor of the relegated clubs. Also remember you will get a further 40m in year 2 and approx 20m in year three after your relegation. Of course as we have seen this does not guarantee promotion for any team that gets relegated but it does allow you to pay more in transfer fees and players wages which restricts the players we can sign as we cannot offer those same numbers or it forces us to pay over what we are technically allowed to spend to compete for these players (see Wolves 53m tranfers this season). This in turn has seen the tranfer fees in the Championship go up a lot over recent years and for sure the wage expectations have gone up even more.
Our chairman is a billionaire, but due to FFP he is restricted to approx 37m budget each season (24m revenue and 13m loss), still approx half of the parachute payment you will get next season, and therefore we can only compete at the top end of the division for 2-3 years tops, then we have to reboot, sell players, have a season or two in the bottom half and then try to go again for a couple of season, all the time while more teams come down with parachute payments.
Essentially "20 quid is enough" cannot apply outside the PL because the clubs simply cannot afford to keep their prices that low, whereas in the PL it should be 20 quid as the ticket revenue is only a small part of the total revenue. Here is a decent article from a few months ago about the effects the parachute payments are having, bear in mind this quotes last seasons parachute payment figures not the dramatically increased ones for this season:
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/premier-league-parachute-payments-exclusive-study-football-league-finance-money-a8255976.html
RE: Season Tickets !!!! - 4evaabaggie - 11-05-2018
Very good thread SCO, and a good article, " do not blow your long term sustainability to achieve your short term goals " a comment a lot of clubs should learn ..... Albion have, as far as I can tell, always lived by that rule, that's why we can not compete with clubs that overspend, have short term success then fail because there's always another club prepared to fill the void short term .... we play pretty much by the rules so our transfer targets go elsewhere ...... unfortunately we will now be the financial powerhouse and your transfer targets will come to us ....... all caused by the greed league, I hate it, oh for a level playing field .... a lot of lovely community based clubs will struggle and may go under because of the FA's gentleman's club of six ....... the working mans game, not anymore, at the prices you had to charge vile in order to survive a family (2 + 2) footy away day is going to cost around £300 when you add travel and food/drink costs.