Why are tickets so expensive nowadays?

[Jones28]

3 or 4 years ago £20 for an adult ticket for Hibs vs Hearts, Aberdeen and Rantic were the usual price. I don't get why four years has bumped the prices up by £7

[Antifa Hibs]

OF and Hearts games have always been more expensive as far as I can remember.

I mind thats why Hearts only had about 1200 fans at the 6-2, as we were charging them £24 and other clubs £19-20, and that was almost 9 years ago.They boycotted that game (apperently).

How much is Hibs v Hamilton and St Mirren etc? Don't think its a £7 difference between Cat A & Cat B games, could be wrong mind you.

[MozHibs1875]

The cost of ticket prices in this country is an absolute disgrace
Considering the standard of player on show, prices should be no more than £20, and im sick of hearing the excuse about the lesser money received from tv deals.

Im no expert but I would think tckts for S.P.L games must be amongst the dearest in Europe !

[jgl07]

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The cost of ticket prices in this country is an absolute disgrace
Considering the standard of player on show, prices should be no more than £20, and im sick of hearing the excuse about the lesser money received from tv deals.

Im no expert but I would think tckts for S.P.L games must be amongst the dearest in Europe !

Try going to Chelsea!

[matty_f]

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The cost of ticket prices in this country is an absolute disgrace
Considering the standard of player on show, prices should be no more than £20, and im sick of hearing the excuse about the lesser money received from tv deals.

Im no expert but I would think tckts for S.P.L games must be amongst the dearest in Europe !

It's economics though - in order for clubs to field players of an acceptable standard, they need to pay the going rate.

In Scotland, the TV money is buttons, so the difference has to be made up through ticket sales. Gone are the days of tens of thousands of fans pouring through the turnstiles at Easter Road, so the price you and I pay reflects that.

We could get much cheaper tickets, but we'd have to watch some horrendous players!

[RIP]

Does anyone have a history of how much admission was in years gone by?

[Killiehibbie]

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The cost of ticket prices in this country is an absolute disgrace
Considering the standard of player on show, prices should be no more than £20, and im sick of hearing the excuse about the lesser money received from tv deals.

Im no expert but I would think tckts for S.P.L games must be amongst the dearest in Europe !

Tickets are expensive so they can pay average players inflated wages. What's on offer is worth about a tenner.

[Broken Gnome]

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Does anyone have a history of how much admission was in years gone by?

I remember going to a Hibs-Middlebrough pre-season friendly, must've been 1997 or 98 maybe, back then it was £6 for a kid. Well I didn't actually go, because that season they bumped it up to £7 and I was £1 short.

[Antifa Hibs]

Here's a post I made last December

(Copy n pasted it for ya)

Bored stiff here so thought i'd do a little research on SPL ticket prices on what we should be paying (Going with rate of inflation) and what we are paying today.

Rangers - Hibs - 6/4/91

Ticket price: £6.50

Going with inflation, that means today we should be paying £10.05
(Average inflation rate of 2.7%)

Hibs meet Rangers at Ibrox on 20/12/2008. Ticket price: £26.00 (Subject to £1.50 booking fee).
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Hibs - Celtic - 28/09/1991

Ticket price: £8.00

Going with inflation, that means today we should be paying £12.37
(Average inflation rate of 2.7%)

Hibs versus Celtic tomorrow at Easter Road. Ticket price: £27.00

A huge difference!
It's ****ing frightening how much we are getting ripped off.

[lyonhibs]

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3 or 4 years ago £20 for an adult ticket for Hibs vs Hearts, Aberdeen and Rantic were the usual price. I don't get why four years has bumped the prices up by £7

You are having a giraffe right??

[Woody1985]

It's simple.

Example (made up figures);

Average price per game = £25 x 12,000 fans = £300,000

Average price per game = £27 x 11,000 fans = £297,000.

The board will factor this in, they'll know the solid fan base which most of will pay an increase every year unless the standard is shocking or the price increase massively from one year to the next.

[jgl07]

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It's simple.

Example (made up figures);

Average price per game = £25 x 12,000 fans = £300,000

Average price per game = £27 x 11,000 fans = £297,000.

The board will factor this in, they'll know the solid fan base which most of will pay an increase every year unless the standard is shocking or the price increase massively from one year to the next.

Motherwell cut prices a few years back and it had no impact on attenances.

[Jack]

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Motherwell cut prices a few years back and it had no impact on attenances.

We reduced our prices this year! 2007 dont ya know!!

Estimates on here suggest we're at least 1000 down on last year (thats the same as an increased offer on Arfield). Its not all about the cost.

[Brando7]

I still defend my opinion on players earning appearance money everytime they step onto a football field

Forgive me for thinking that is what they are paid for weekly to do

It a expensive day out at the football if u include traveling to the game, few beers, programme, match ticket, some scran then traveling back home

[TamHibs]

In Holland to go see Ajax vs PSV its only 8 euros for an adult - i know what I would rather watch tbh

[sesoim]

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Try going to Chelsea!

By rights, taking into account what their team costs in wages, our tickets should only cost about £2.

[sesoim]

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In Holland to go see Ajax vs PSV its only 8 euros for an adult - i know what I would rather watch tbh

That's the annoying thing - why do we charge so much compared to other similar countrie? I think it is because we are next door to England and the Premiership. What they pay for players and charge for tickets should be irrelevant to us, but it seems to be used as an excuse by our teams to charge more. Also, we were forced to pay millions rebuilding our stadiums because of the Taylor report. I know it was for good reasons, but Scottish football has went downhill badly since the late-80s.

[matty_f]

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That's the annoying thing - why do we charge so much compared to other similar countrie? I think it is because we are next door to England and the Premiership. What they pay for players and charge for tickets should be irrelevant to us, but it seems to be used as an excuse by our teams to charge more. Also, we were forced to pay millions rebuilding our stadiums because of the Taylor report. I know it was for good reasons, but Scottish football has went downhill badly since the late-80s.

What countries are you referring to? Without knowing which ones you mean, I'd say that the biggest difference is likely to be in how much tv money clubs get, and how much money we have to pay the players.

We do suffer because of the money in the English game. If that wasn't there the market for players would be much cheaper, particularly for home-grown players. Just now, to try and keep our best players from heading South, we have to pay comparable wages with some English clubs.

That's what drives the prices up.

[Boozy14]

I was really annoyed last wed at the CIS game against BRECHIN im a season ticket holder just paid short of 400 pound for my ST and i still had to pay £15 to get in,surely £10 for adults and £5 for kids would be better for a game like that,would do other people think????

[sesoim]

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It's simple.

Example (made up figures);

Average price per game = £25 x 12,000 fans = £300,000

Average price per game = £27 x 11,000 fans = £297,000.

The board will factor this in, they'll know the solid fan base which most of will pay an increase every year unless the standard is shocking or the price increase massively from one year to the next.

Probably the only way we could really increase the crowd significantly (ie get 30,000+ turning up every week) would be if we built a huge new stadium, signed loads of good players and put the season tickets down to under £200 for a while, to gradually entice more fans along. Obviously that isn't feasible unless a billionaire buys us, so all the board can really do is tinker.

The damage has been done, the prices went up far too much (for a number of reasons) from the mid-80s through to now and a lot of fans have been lost permanently as a result.

[Joy Zipper]

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The cost of ticket prices in this country is an absolute disgrace
Considering the standard of player on show, prices should be no more than £20, and im sick of hearing the excuse about the lesser money received from tv deals.

Im no expert but I would think tckts for S.P.L games must be amongst the dearest in Europe !

I paid 65 Euro for a seat up in the gods at Barcelona in April this year. It was worth it though, they beat Seville 4-0.

[Steve-O]

I pay the equivalent of 11 quid a game over here for Wellington Phoenix, and with the quality on offer on the park, that's about the right price IMO.

A-League is nae SPL, but I definitely don't think an SPL game is worth double that price a lot of the time

[James70]

I can remember going to Old Trafford in the 1960s watching Best, Law and Charlton. Cost me 1/6d (7.5p) to get in and 6d (2.5p) for a programme. Adding a train fare of around a shilling, it didn't make too much of a dent in my paper round income of 15 shillings (75p) a week!

[scott7_0(Prague)]

Tell me about it, I pay around 27GBP for my season ticket at Sparta, great seats on the half way line upper tier.

For the European qualifiers we paid 3.50GBP for our seats in the Champions League qualifiers and got in for free for the UEFA qualifier, all domestic cups are for free as well.

So when I am back in Edinburgh and attending a Hibs game it breaks my heart and pocket to attend all for the love though!!!!

[Ray_]

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I can remember going to Old Trafford in the 1960s watching Best, Law and Charlton. Cost me 1/6d (7.5p) to get in and 6d (2.5p) for a programme. Adding a train fare of around a shilling, it didn't make too much of a dent in my paper round income of 15 shillings (75p) a week!

It only cost about 30p to watch TT's.

[Phil MaGlass]

I paid 16 euro to watch Schalke v PSG
16 euro Ajax v Ado.

Scottish prices dont add up.

[Joe Baker II]

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It's economics though - in order for clubs to field players of an acceptable standard, they need to pay the going rate.

In Scotland, the TV money is buttons, so the difference has to be made up through ticket sales. Gone are the days of tens of thousands of fans pouring through the turnstiles at Easter Road, so the price you and I pay reflects that.

We could get much cheaper tickets, but we'd have to watch some horrendous players!

I do not see how this explains the levlels of increase referred to earlier in the thread - none of the circumstances you describe are unique to 2009. Even in the 1950s to say we had tens of thousands of fans pouring in exaggerates the reality of that era.

[Craig_in_Prague]

3.70 for a pie and bovril as well

[Joe Baker II]

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Motherwell cut prices a few years back and it had no impact on attenances.

Be careful of Petrie - style propaganda being repated until people believe it, this is not correct, Motherwell's crowds rose when they reduced prices, their gross income may have dropped but that is a different point.

[Steve-O]

Blame Bosman...gave the power to players = wages through the roof = money has to come from somewhere = daft fans like us paying stupid amounts to watch about 70% sheeeite gamees.