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Tickets at some Championship clubs have been described as “ridiculously expensive” after a Guardian survey found adult prices this season will regularly surpass £35, with Sheffield Wednesday charging £52 for certain games.
According to the study, Wednesday’s category A* matches in the south stand at Hillsborough are the most expensive seats available, excluding premium hospitality sections across the league. Eighteen of the 24 clubs in the division have priced their dearest tickets at £35 or more. Five of those clubs – Brighton, Fulham, Ipswich, Leeds and Wednesday – sell their most expensive tickets at £40 or more.
A number of clubs offer promotions and deals throughout the season. However, the cheapest standard adult ticket available at Brighton, MK Dons and Reading is £25. The best available price is at Derby, who offer £10 admissions for a small number of matches per season, while fans at Birmingham, Bolton, Blackburn, Cardiff and Charlton can buy tickets for less than £20 for some games.
The most expensive season ticket is at Fulham, who charge £839 in one stand, while Ipswich’s top price is £829, Sheffield Wednesday’s £760, QPR’s £719 and Brighton’s £715. The cheapest season ticket available at Hull City is £508, followed by £465 at Brighton and £411 at Ipswich. The cheapest season ticket in the Championship was Charlton’s early price of £175, while seven other clubs had best available options at £300 or under, including Birmingham, Blackburn, Bristol City, Fulham, Huddersfield, Preston and Wolves.
It puts the cost of following a Championship club under scrutiny, with certain supporters staging protests similar to those held against ticket prices in the Premier League. The Championship is regarded as too costly by many, with certain fans arguing that tickets should cost no more than £20-25.
The Football League said fans who purchased their club’s cheapest season ticket for the 2014-15 campaign paid an average of £15 per match but that those buying tickets for individual games did not benefit from such discounts.
The Football Supporters’ Federation, which is organising a Twenty is Plenty weekend of action for away fans in October, said: “This research proves what many fans have been telling us for years – there are some good offers available in the Championship but many ridiculously expensive tickets too. High prices aren’t just a Premier League problem. We often speak to foreign fans and journalists who are shocked that £40 tickets are commonplace in the second tier of English football. To the best of our knowledge it doesn’t happen anywhere else. Away supporters in particular are hit in the pocket as they receive no season-ticket discounts while local promotions are rarely offered to them either.
“More clubs should follow the example of Coventry City, who have promised to charge away fans visiting the Ricoh Arena no more than £20. If a League One club can do that, why not the Championship? All fans should back our Twenty’s Plenty for Away Tickets protests on 3-4 October.”
The FSF campaign is focused on reducing the prices away fans are charged. A number of Bristol City supporters boycotted their first match of the season, at Sheffield Wednesday, because of the £39 tickets in the away end and, in the Championship, supporters of clubs such as Leeds and Nottingham Forest are often charged top-category prices for away matches.
Wednesday were bought out by a Thai company headed by the businessman Dejphon Chansiri in January. After announcing the new ticket-pricing plan for the 2015-16 season – where a match grading system from G-A* is in place, with category C matches costing £43 in the south stand – Chansiri released a statement on the club’s website in response to criticism. A section said: “In the bigger picture if we are to achieve our ultimate aim of promotion, we must embark on this journey together. I will lead that journey as your chairman but I need as much help as possible along the way … as our costs increase, so too must our revenues across the business.”
Tickets at some Championship clubs have been described as “ridiculously expensive” after a Guardian survey found adult prices this season will regularly surpass £35, with Sheffield Wednesday charging £52 for certain games.
According to the study, Wednesday’s category A* matches in the south stand at Hillsborough are the most expensive seats available, excluding premium hospitality sections across the league. Eighteen of the 24 clubs in the division have priced their dearest tickets at £35 or more. Five of those clubs – Brighton, Fulham, Ipswich, Leeds and Wednesday – sell their most expensive tickets at £40 or more.
A number of clubs offer promotions and deals throughout the season. However, the cheapest standard adult ticket available at Brighton, MK Dons and Reading is £25. The best available price is at Derby, who offer £10 admissions for a small number of matches per season, while fans at Birmingham, Bolton, Blackburn, Cardiff and Charlton can buy tickets for less than £20 for some games.
The most expensive season ticket is at Fulham, who charge £839 in one stand, while Ipswich’s top price is £829, Sheffield Wednesday’s £760, QPR’s £719 and Brighton’s £715. The cheapest season ticket available at Hull City is £508, followed by £465 at Brighton and £411 at Ipswich. The cheapest season ticket in the Championship was Charlton’s early price of £175, while seven other clubs had best available options at £300 or under, including Birmingham, Blackburn, Bristol City, Fulham, Huddersfield, Preston and Wolves.
It puts the cost of following a Championship club under scrutiny, with certain supporters staging protests similar to those held against ticket prices in the Premier League. The Championship is regarded as too costly by many, with certain fans arguing that tickets should cost no more than £20-25.
The Football League said fans who purchased their club’s cheapest season ticket for the 2014-15 campaign paid an average of £15 per match but that those buying tickets for individual games did not benefit from such discounts.
The Football Supporters’ Federation, which is organising a Twenty is Plenty weekend of action for away fans in October, said: “This research proves what many fans have been telling us for years – there are some good offers available in the Championship but many ridiculously expensive tickets too. High prices aren’t just a Premier League problem. We often speak to foreign fans and journalists who are shocked that £40 tickets are commonplace in the second tier of English football. To the best of our knowledge it doesn’t happen anywhere else. Away supporters in particular are hit in the pocket as they receive no season-ticket discounts while local promotions are rarely offered to them either.
“More clubs should follow the example of Coventry City, who have promised to charge away fans visiting the Ricoh Arena no more than £20. If a League One club can do that, why not the Championship? All fans should back our Twenty’s Plenty for Away Tickets protests on 3-4 October.”
The FSF campaign is focused on reducing the prices away fans are charged. A number of Bristol City supporters boycotted their first match of the season, at Sheffield Wednesday, because of the £39 tickets in the away end and, in the Championship, supporters of clubs such as Leeds and Nottingham Forest are often charged top-category prices for away matches.
Wednesday were bought out by a Thai company headed by the businessman Dejphon Chansiri in January. After announcing the new ticket-pricing plan for the 2015-16 season – where a match grading system from G-A* is in place, with category C matches costing £43 in the south stand – Chansiri released a statement on the club’s website in response to criticism. A section said: “In the bigger picture if we are to achieve our ultimate aim of promotion, we must embark on this journey together. I will lead that journey as your chairman but I need as much help as possible along the way … as our costs increase, so too must our revenues across the business.”
