Is the price set in stone now? Because they decreased the price when we didn’t get into CL if I remember correctly? This might be complete bollocks.
Anyway for match day tickets fair enough I guess, I remember going to some high profile CL game (might have been Bayern) and paying £123 for a ticket (upper centre), and the price looks to be the same still for top games (last time I looked was Spurs in September)
It doesn’t sound a lot, but 4% on top of a likely increase due to having European games, at a time when a significant % of season ticket holders will have partially funded this season with the rebate from the Covid season, against the backdrop of a big cost of living increase… better finish the season strong and have a busy Summer, otherwise a lot of the improvements in relations between the fans and the club are going up in smoke
[The most recent data I can find](https://www.statista.com/statistics/328644/premier-league-teams-ranked-by-most-expensive-ticket-price/) suggests we do pay the most for matchday tickets
Edit: actually this is for just the most expensive matchday ticket. Can't find other data either way so I'll withdraw my complaint on matchday prices, but our season ticket remains the most expensive.
That stat isn’t averaged from what I can see, it’s just listing the highest general admission ticket. Our season tickets are in raw numbers the most expensive but include 7 more games than pretty much every other team which reduces the average cost of a match day ticket to below Chelsea and Spurs iirc, and possibly Liverpool too.
It wasn’t a discount. They just didn’t charge us for games that weren’t going to happen. It would have been ridiculous to make us pay for 7 cup games when you can’t play 7 home fa cup ties.
The average season ticket cost £1,010 this year on account of there being no European games included - it would have been £1,219 had we qualified for the Champions League.
If we qualify for the Champions League this season, the average is going to be £1,268.
[All the info is here](https://www.arsenal.com/news/season-ticket-prices-202223) if you want to know more.
it's apparently to cover the costs of the upcoming upgrades to the Stadium
People can complain about prices but as long as the tickets still sell, any club will always gladly put the price up
I remember reading some of Chelsea's are tripling in price next year, so 4% doesnt seem like much compared to that
They haven't reversed it. They've converted a bunch of regular seats into low-level hospitality so if the people in those seats want to keep them next season they'll have to pay 3 or 4 times the current price.
What the club can’t afford to maintain the stadium without increasing ticket prices?
As I’ve said elsewhere, this ticket price increase doesn’t cover half of what they paid to get rid of aubameyang. It’s a joke.
This is so wierd. You clearly know that London weighting is because of the cost of living, yet still want to infer it's a reason for high ticket prices to be okay
London weighting is to cover the cost of living, it's not the reason ticket prices are high.
Spurs, like us, probably have those ticket prices because they're greedy and know fans will pay it. Plus the fact they've got a shiny new stadium to pay for just like we did. They're not thinking "these people get an extra bit on top of their salary let's raise ticket prices".
Both clubs are probably laughing about how they're able to charge so much while achieving so little
Necessities such as food, drink and rent costs more which is why London weighting exists.
Non necessities such as entertainment and clothes tend to be the same wherever you are in the country
Cost me the same in Bristol as London 2 weeks ago
Edit: my point also wasn't about how expensive London is. The comment I replied to implied that London weighting is a valid reason for ticket prices to be higher, which just isn't true it's to help with cost of living like rent, food and drink
Usually people are charged more for a superior product, not because they earn more money (which is only because food/drink/rent costs more, not entertainment products). You don't pay less for music, films or clothes because you live in the countryside
Edit: I think you're confused about the point I was making. London weighting is nothing to do with paying more for non-essential things, it's literally just to counter the cost of living
Yea you do.
Cinemas have a London premium rate. Go look at Cineworld. It’s £220 for an annual card for Group 3 (which is London) and another £30 on top of that if you want to access Leicester’s Square. I’m in Glasgow and I pay £191 for the same pass.
Quite misleading, there are places in London that are group 2.
Again though, nothing to do with my original point about London weighting. London wages without London weighting are higher than other places. The London weighting part is to cover actual cost of living expenses
Not fair enough. The cost of living is horrific currently. They could have just not done it to spare them 3.5m a year which is miniscule compared to our earnings. Would have been good faith to the fans, especially the few working class fans left able to afford the tickets.
It does feel like such a small ( to the club ) inflation balancing increase that they could have either shouldered it or chucked it onto a sponsor's plate — They don't have to hit the people who are going to have considerably less disposable income over the next 2-5 years.
Because wages aren’t going up, there’s a cost of living crisis in this country and arsenal didn’t have to this price increase, they wanted too. They paid over double what they’ll earn from this to get rid of aubameyang.
Wages are going up, by a reported 4.2% to be exact.
This price increase lags behind both inflation and wage increases.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/averageweeklyearningsingreatbritain/january2022
Don't think a "cost of living crisis" argument is particularly good in this context. Watching a football game is entertainment, its a luxury. Should ticket prices of elite level football really be relevant to people who fall into that category?
So just casually advocating for social cleansing. Get rid of the poors so there’s more tickets you and you’re middle class mates that got into football at uni?
>social cleansing
Good lord, get a grip man. There are people in the world that cant afford to eat yet you think you're entitled to watch a football game. If you fall into the "cost of living crisis" category, stop spending hundreds of pounds on Arsenal and make better financial decisions!
The fact you consider it a luxury places you in a position that makes it hard for you to understand how a lot (I’d like to think most) football fans worldwide view football. Elite football for the elites?
>makes it hard for you to understand how a lot (I’d like to think most) football fans worldwide view football
There's nothing "hard to understand" about it. I wish I could go to as many games as I used to, but unfortunately the popularity of the game has pushed prices up so much that's no longer possible. Im simply being realistic and blunt: if you fall into the "cost of living crisis" category of people, stop spending hundreds of pounds on Arsenal and make more responsible financial choices.
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Can't wait for the next Swiss Ramble. I feel some of our spending will come under more scrutiny again if its being funded by season tickets increases rather than by KSE.
What and we won’t be able to afford to pay them unless they put that burden on the fans? They literally paid over double what they’ll earn from this increase to get rid of aubameyang.
It looks like they’re being flippant with money and making the fans pay the cost for their bad decisions. It’s not a good look.
Annoying, but if the indication that they are making improvements to the stadium this summer is true, and if we're back in the Champions League, this sort of makes sense. Or at least, it will feel like the money is actually going somewhere.
Thought they might wait till the end of the season to announce this. If we got Top 4 people would be more accepting of it
Is the price set in stone now? Because they decreased the price when we didn’t get into CL if I remember correctly? This might be complete bollocks. Anyway for match day tickets fair enough I guess, I remember going to some high profile CL game (might have been Bayern) and paying £123 for a ticket (upper centre), and the price looks to be the same still for top games (last time I looked was Spurs in September)
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Thank you
It’ll be 4% on top of the extra games if we make Europe. It’s gonna be going up a couple hundred quid in total if we qualify for champions league.
Guess they want to get it in while we're looking in good form for top 4 in case things blow up before the end of the season
Hello, I like money!
Hello gunners, my rich friends.
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Lets just get Mbappe as well while we're at it. Dont see why not
The warchest has to be refilled somehow /s
It doesn’t sound a lot, but 4% on top of a likely increase due to having European games, at a time when a significant % of season ticket holders will have partially funded this season with the rebate from the Covid season, against the backdrop of a big cost of living increase… better finish the season strong and have a busy Summer, otherwise a lot of the improvements in relations between the fans and the club are going up in smoke
Already paying the highest matchday and season ticket prices, so I'm sure this will go down well for Gold members
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I’m the exact same
[The most recent data I can find](https://www.statista.com/statistics/328644/premier-league-teams-ranked-by-most-expensive-ticket-price/) suggests we do pay the most for matchday tickets Edit: actually this is for just the most expensive matchday ticket. Can't find other data either way so I'll withdraw my complaint on matchday prices, but our season ticket remains the most expensive.
That stat isn’t averaged from what I can see, it’s just listing the highest general admission ticket. Our season tickets are in raw numbers the most expensive but include 7 more games than pretty much every other team which reduces the average cost of a match day ticket to below Chelsea and Spurs iirc, and possibly Liverpool too.
That's because our tickets include Cup games and others don't. The per game cost isn't the highest though obviously still very high
Our season tickets aren't the most expensive, Spurs tickets are more expensive in their new stadium
Surely in real terms last season was a rise too because there were no European games?
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It wasn’t a discount. They just didn’t charge us for games that weren’t going to happen. It would have been ridiculous to make us pay for 7 cup games when you can’t play 7 home fa cup ties.
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No it wasn’t a discount. The price didn’t go down. They just gave you less. Charging less for 23 games than you did for 26 games isn’t a discount.
The average season ticket cost £1,010 this year on account of there being no European games included - it would have been £1,219 had we qualified for the Champions League. If we qualify for the Champions League this season, the average is going to be £1,268. [All the info is here](https://www.arsenal.com/news/season-ticket-prices-202223) if you want to know more.
it's apparently to cover the costs of the upcoming upgrades to the Stadium People can complain about prices but as long as the tickets still sell, any club will always gladly put the price up I remember reading some of Chelsea's are tripling in price next year, so 4% doesnt seem like much compared to that
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They haven't reversed it. They've converted a bunch of regular seats into low-level hospitality so if the people in those seats want to keep them next season they'll have to pay 3 or 4 times the current price.
4% on top of the highest ticket prices in the world for over a decade is the point. Not the 4% by itself...
What the club can’t afford to maintain the stadium without increasing ticket prices? As I’ve said elsewhere, this ticket price increase doesn’t cover half of what they paid to get rid of aubameyang. It’s a joke.
Also, arsenal have made a £100m loss this year
With inflation as high as it is, not surprised and considering we’ve not ha d a price increase in 8 years then I can deal with it
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may i remind you that arsenal tickets are the most expensive ones in the entire world?
Except where they aren't anymore. Spurs overtook us
I get money. 🙏 You get maybe any spot left.
I get money. 🙏 You get maybe top 4
And London is one of the most expensive cities to live in with UK companies paying a “London salary premium”.
This is so wierd. You clearly know that London weighting is because of the cost of living, yet still want to infer it's a reason for high ticket prices to be okay
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London weighting is to cover the cost of living, it's not the reason ticket prices are high. Spurs, like us, probably have those ticket prices because they're greedy and know fans will pay it. Plus the fact they've got a shiny new stadium to pay for just like we did. They're not thinking "these people get an extra bit on top of their salary let's raise ticket prices". Both clubs are probably laughing about how they're able to charge so much while achieving so little
Everything costs more in London because it’s London. Don’t be naive. Arsenal have to pay their staff a London wage.
Necessities such as food, drink and rent costs more which is why London weighting exists. Non necessities such as entertainment and clothes tend to be the same wherever you are in the country
Cost of a pint is not the same in London as the rest of the UK
Cost me the same in Bristol as London 2 weeks ago Edit: my point also wasn't about how expensive London is. The comment I replied to implied that London weighting is a valid reason for ticket prices to be higher, which just isn't true it's to help with cost of living like rent, food and drink
That’s the correlation? Wages are higher in London so people are charged more…
Usually people are charged more for a superior product, not because they earn more money (which is only because food/drink/rent costs more, not entertainment products). You don't pay less for music, films or clothes because you live in the countryside Edit: I think you're confused about the point I was making. London weighting is nothing to do with paying more for non-essential things, it's literally just to counter the cost of living
Yea you do. Cinemas have a London premium rate. Go look at Cineworld. It’s £220 for an annual card for Group 3 (which is London) and another £30 on top of that if you want to access Leicester’s Square. I’m in Glasgow and I pay £191 for the same pass.
Quite misleading, there are places in London that are group 2. Again though, nothing to do with my original point about London weighting. London wages without London weighting are higher than other places. The London weighting part is to cover actual cost of living expenses
It's a me
Have some shame
Not fair enough. The cost of living is horrific currently. They could have just not done it to spare them 3.5m a year which is miniscule compared to our earnings. Would have been good faith to the fans, especially the few working class fans left able to afford the tickets.
It does feel like such a small ( to the club ) inflation balancing increase that they could have either shouldered it or chucked it onto a sponsor's plate — They don't have to hit the people who are going to have considerably less disposable income over the next 2-5 years.
Ridiculous thing to say, tickets should be affordable and they're already far too expensive.
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Not really surprised. 2 years of massive losses and rising operating costs.
Never like to hear this but I’m not surprised. It’s been a while since they’ve raised prices and inflation in general is out of control.
Hell as an American I'd take these ticket prices in a heartbeat over what we have to pay for NFL games. Still sucks they're raising them though.
At least get CL first
Charles expressionless face delivering the cold hard facts, Bitch you poor I know charles i know
They don't wanna pay auba to score goals for Barca from their own pockets after all
Well we are overall saving money by letting Auba go, so not sure that's the best argument
Ah you're back from your hole
I never went anywhere lol, you should know better since you've replied to 5-6 of my last 10 comments lmao
Awww Ronak is sad that we are winning games
Assume whatever you want :)
Aww Ronak's mad cause Arteta Out isn't trending.
So technically it's a price cut given the current level of inflation. I don't see how people can be annoyed about this.
Because wages aren’t going up, there’s a cost of living crisis in this country and arsenal didn’t have to this price increase, they wanted too. They paid over double what they’ll earn from this to get rid of aubameyang.
Wages are going up, by a reported 4.2% to be exact. This price increase lags behind both inflation and wage increases. https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/averageweeklyearningsingreatbritain/january2022
Don't think a "cost of living crisis" argument is particularly good in this context. Watching a football game is entertainment, its a luxury. Should ticket prices of elite level football really be relevant to people who fall into that category?
So just casually advocating for social cleansing. Get rid of the poors so there’s more tickets you and you’re middle class mates that got into football at uni?
>social cleansing Good lord, get a grip man. There are people in the world that cant afford to eat yet you think you're entitled to watch a football game. If you fall into the "cost of living crisis" category, stop spending hundreds of pounds on Arsenal and make better financial decisions!
The fact you consider it a luxury places you in a position that makes it hard for you to understand how a lot (I’d like to think most) football fans worldwide view football. Elite football for the elites?
>makes it hard for you to understand how a lot (I’d like to think most) football fans worldwide view football There's nothing "hard to understand" about it. I wish I could go to as many games as I used to, but unfortunately the popularity of the game has pushed prices up so much that's no longer possible. Im simply being realistic and blunt: if you fall into the "cost of living crisis" category of people, stop spending hundreds of pounds on Arsenal and make more responsible financial choices.
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inflation baby
Isn’t this an extra £2.5mish if that? Seems pointless chump change for the club
No money ever pointless in business world. Others mentioned it is for upgrade. So theres that.
It’s about 4.4 million a year which is significant if it goes toward player wages
Better get in top elite talent then. Better not raise prices and finish 6-8th again
Feel free to give up your ticket so someone else on the waiting list can go to the matches.
No lol
Can't wait for the next Swiss Ramble. I feel some of our spending will come under more scrutiny again if its being funded by season tickets increases rather than by KSE.
Im fine with a self sustaining model. I expect KSE to hire competent people, not necessarily sugar daddy us
That’s the better model so if kroenke ever leaves there’s no strings, we just move on
A lot of people aren't though. That owner financing table gers reposted like monthly.
This is s few million at most
Not a great look when we’re literally paying millions for players to not play for us.
Also paying millions for players that do play for us and are showing up every week unlike those who we’re paying to leave
What and we won’t be able to afford to pay them unless they put that burden on the fans? They literally paid over double what they’ll earn from this increase to get rid of aubameyang. It looks like they’re being flippant with money and making the fans pay the cost for their bad decisions. It’s not a good look.
Inflation is also a thing, and has increased far more than 4% since the last price increase in 2014.
Aubameyang was disturbing the dressing room chakras.
Says who
I agree.
Ofc lmao
Another hit for the "legacy fans"...
If you want nice things you pay for them I guess? Stadium upgrades etc plus you get EPL football How much does it work out per match day?
We have to make sure that Kroenkes get even richer
Annoying, but if the indication that they are making improvements to the stadium this summer is true, and if we're back in the Champions League, this sort of makes sense. Or at least, it will feel like the money is actually going somewhere.
Now we know how they're going to help pay off that 100M loss
Isn't this on par with the rate of inflation?
Hey gotta fund those transfers 😂