New Ticketing Approach for 2012/13

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Arsenal Football Club has announced the outcome of a major review of its ticketing approach ahead of the 2012/13 season.

The move follows extensive discussions with supporters’ groups and has led to changes designed to provide thousands of tickets at lower prices, reward season-ticket loyalty and improve the Ticket Exchange service.

Ticket prices seemingly have been reduced across the board. It gives examples of the Sunderland game,
Emirates games tickets will now be in 3 categories of match; A, B and C

Examples are given:

The Sunderland home game is considered class C and a ticket in the North Bank Lower will cost £25.50 (23% reduction on last year)

On the other hand Chelsea at home is considered class A and the same ticket will cost £62 (compared to £51 last season - a 17% increase)

Gold level season ticket prices have been frozen this season (for the fourth year out of six)

There's more info if you follow the link

What do people think?

I think it's good that there are more accessible ticket prices for some games. However will the increasing of price in the games against higher class opponents result in worse atmospheres in those games?

It's a more organic approach supply and demand. I was kind of hoping this might have some sort of refence to increasing noise in the stadium.

Guess it makes it a lot more cost effective to see the less appealing teams, although the increase on the big games by as much as 15% will be felt as well. Not a bad move anyway, just depends who they will categorise in A, B & C.

Its a 2% ticket price increase by stealth.

Crazy to think £63 will now be the cheapest ticket in the ground to see United,Spurs,Liverpool,Chelski and Man Sour Citeh. On the bright side I can't wait for the whining from the visiting fans when they are faced with these prices

I would like to have seen away fans moved to the upper tier like they are at Newcastle.

On the plus side it will make some games more accessible for ordinary fans. Just a shame they have to squeeze another few pennies out of fans. I wish they had the same Shylock touch when dealing with sponsors.

Lol, so they giveth with one hand and taketh away with the other.

To be honest, club haven't given the fans anything really. Decrease in price for lesser teams yet increase price on the bigger games (decreasing the chances of your bog standard fans getting to see the likes of Man Utd, Spurs, Chelsea etc = more tickets for our corporate friends)

So are the B category staying the same price i can't seem to find the answer?

Any changes for away games?

It's going to be expensive as there still paying off the stadium debt, highest ticket prices in the Premiership I think.

In the world I reckon... Whose are more expensive? Maybe Real or Barca?

It's going to be expensive as there still paying off the stadium debt, highest ticket prices in the Premiership I think.

So are the B category staying the same price i can't seem to find the answer?

"Prices for ‘B’ category matches will increase on average by 2%"
From Arseblog, i think it's 50p more or something.
http://news.arseblog.com/2012/07/club-a ... -category/

It's going to be expensive as there still paying off the stadium debt, highest ticket prices in the Premiership I think.

In the world I reckon... Whose are more expensive? Maybe Real or Barca?

The Spanish giants look after their members. You can watch Barca from €9. They do have a similar grading system though where tickets for their equivalent of category A matches are vastly more expensive than for ordinary games.

In Spain the season tickets are cheap, but you get clobbered for cherry picking the big matches. Thats fair in my book.

It's going to be expensive as there still paying off the stadium debt, highest ticket prices in the Premiership I think.

In the world I reckon... Whose are more expensive? Maybe Real or Barca?

This - IIRC.

As for the debt = that's got NOTHING to do with the ticket prices - 20m gate revenue from season 1 after the move covers it.

The 'real' reason for the ticket price increases is to generate EXTRA gate revenues to pay for EVERYTHING ELSE - the increased wages, the Arsenalisation of the stadium inside & out, the bronze statues, the new medical & training facilities.

That's what Self Funding means,
and increased ticket prices are the consequence of Self Funding AND the Board being too conservative/lazy/(insert adjective) to sit on their asses re our commercial revenues.

The ONLY thing that has changed as a result of the move has been our gate revenues - NOTHING else has changed in what we do or how we do it.