Ticket sales

[Brauny Blue]

If Leicesters average attendance is somewhere between 20-22000 this season, should the club review its policy of ticket sales? The club obviously needs every penny it can get,but with 10000+ empty seats are they getting the best out of the Walkers stadium? It would be unfair on season ticket holders if they keep reducing match day tickets, because they have already spent good money on their original ticket. Given that the team will still be in the championship next season, should they reduce the cost of season tickets thus allowing the club more scope to offer cheaper match day tickets? The support is out there and it would be nice to get that average attendance upto 28000+. Do you think the club have got it about right as it stands, or could they do more? At Birmingham on Saturday it was evident that many of the home fans were boycotting because of their clubs pricing policy. Up and down the country many ex premier lge teams have low average attendances. It seems to me that too many of them are asking the fans to pay for their clubs failure in the top flight.

 

[MHS]

£15 is a fair price for a matchday ticket IMO.

£180-200 for season tickets.

 

[Jeff]

If Leicesters average attendance is somewhere between 20-22000 this season, should the club review its policy of ticket sales? The club obviously needs every penny it can get,but with 10000+ empty seats are they getting the best out of the Walkers stadium? It would be unfair on season ticket holders if they keep reducing match day tickets, because they have already spent good money on their original ticket. Given that the team will still be in the championship next season, should they reduce the cost of season tickets thus allowing the club more scope to offer cheaper match day tickets? The support is out there and it would be nice to get that average attendance upto 28000+. Do you think the club have got it about right as it stands, or could they do more? At Birmingham on Saturday it was evident that many of the home fans were boycotting because of their clubs pricing policy. Up and down the country many ex premier lge teams have low average attendances. It seems to me that too many of them are asking the fans to pay for their clubs failure in the top flight.

Even when prices have been reduced to £10 (or less than £5 for the Macclesfield match) fans aren't coming back in the numbers required.
We got a few more to the Colchester match by giving thousands of tickets away, but in reality whatever the price the only way the crowds will return to the levels of a few years ago is if we are regularly winning matches, or if we're in the Premiership.

 

[Willlow]

Even when prices have been reduced to £10 (or less than £5 for the Macclesfield match) fans aren't coming back in the numbers required.
We got a few more to the Colchester match by giving thousands of tickets away, but in reality whatever the price the only way the crowds will return to the levels of a few years ago is if we are regularly winning matches, or if we're in the Premiership.

Sadly I agree the only way attendances will go up is if we go on a winning run :icon_redf

 

[Brauny Blue]

Even when prices have been reduced to £10 (or less than £5 for the Macclesfield match) fans aren't coming back in the numbers required.
We got a few more to the Colchester match by giving thousands of tickets away, but in reality whatever the price the only way the crowds will return to the levels of a few years ago is if we are regularly winning matches, or if we're in the Premiership.

To be fair the team are not giving out too many good vibes at the moment. When the die hards are saying ' dull ' 'worst ever ' 'tacticall inept' it dosent inspire the less committed to attend. The Colchester game probaly added 4000 a so to the attendance, and they are not a team thats going to set the pulses racing. If they done it for more medium sized clubs like Ipswich, Stoke etc then imo you would get a decent attendance down the Walkers.

 

[DesertFox]

The thing is, do we want to attract new fans or fans who are a bit unsure to watch the sort of dross we're putting out at the moment? They'd never come back!

 

[barcelonafox]

They are certtainly trying to get more bums on seats. I had a call the other day asking me why i hadn't renewed my season ticket this year.

Explained that Barcelona to leicester for home games was further than some of the away games!!!

Joking apart, i think they are trying hard to get more people into the stadium, but have a problem in that they cannot penalise the season ticket holders who pay up front, and at the same time cannot really afford to reduce the price of the season ticket as they need the revenue.

15000 @ 350 = 5.25 million revenue

To reduce the average price to say 200 as suggested means selling 26250 tickets.

Is this likely???

 

[Leesoh]

It doesn't inspire much confidence in those running the club.

 

[Hazzman]

Although there are people like me who would go down more, I dont think it would make that great of an effect, when the team started to display effort and suggest good football at home, people will come. Even if we have a brief fliration with the play-offs. We began to get decent crowds tail-end of last season, simply playing well despite position.

 

[fosseboy83]

for me its the fact im skint, that why im not down everyweek, £25 is ridiculas (sp:icon_sad: ) especially as i cant get a season ticket as im going on long jollys in jan/feb

 

[Jeff]

£25 is ridiculas (sp:icon_sad: )

Kop tickets are £22 maximum, or £20 for members.

 

[wooo]

i think or tickets or cheaper then nearly all of the championship, even if they or cheaper i bet still the attendance is the same people just dont stop moaning about it, get over it

 

[foxpodder]

To be fair the season tickets aren't too bad (especially with the 15% discount for buying early). But if you have paid out for the season you don't want it devalued by too many give aways. So I would suggest that the club should give season ticket holders 3 or 4 vouchers for an additional free ticket so they can bring someone to the match of their choice. They could block out some games such as Derby and Cov?

Foxpodder

 

[Boy Genius]

i think or tickets or cheaper then nearly all of the championship, even if they or cheaper i bet still the attendance is the same people just dont stop moaning about it, get over it

feckin hell thats hard to read...............you pissed up?

 

[NN Fox]

It's all down to how well we are playing. Last seaon at Filbo we couldn't fill the ground 'cos we were going down. First season at Walkers, ground full every week, we went up!

 

[alex]

Happy days NN...

 

[bocadillo]

To be fair the season tickets aren't too bad (especially with the 15% discount for buying early). But if you have paid out for the season you don't want it devalued by too many give aways. So I would suggest that the club should give season ticket holders 3 or 4 vouchers for an additional free ticket so they can bring someone to the match of their choice. They could block out some games such as Derby and Cov?

Foxpodder

Only 5% this season!

I've got to say though that I think this stuff about the season-ticket being 'devalued by too many give aways' is a load of tosh - just something for people to moan about when they have nothing better to do. Even if a non-ST holder were to take every offer that was thrown at him, he would still have nowhere near the value that a ST holder has. And on top of that, there are giveaways for ST holders as well.

Once the season ticket is paid for, I don't think most holders really bother too much how much others are paying to get in. And if a couple of thousand extra people can be persuaded to come in to swell the atmosphere, it's all for the good IMHO.

 

[Melton Fox]

I'm not bothered about the price of season tickets (within reason) nor the giveaways that "devalue" them.

The advantage for me is that I'm too lazy and unmotivated to buy a ticket prior to each game, with an ST I don't have to

A free ticket wouldn't encourage me to go to a game

 

[PFKAKTF FOX]

I agree with MK, it is what is being served up on the pitch that will effect attendances the most, although current pricing policy certainly does not help.

At present you could make the tickets £5 and it would not have a significant increase in crowds, if performances and more importantly results start to take a turn for the better than I suspect the crowds will start to return.

I think it is important that the club get the pricing structure correct, IMO a simple and A and B pricing policy would suffice.

My idea would be :

Category A games would be priced at £18 and would be no more than half a dozen matches, these games would include the three recently relegated teams plus the local derbies against Cov and Derby with one other selected game by the club.

Category B games would be all other fixtures and they would be priced at £15.

As for season tickets I would look at making a slight reduction with prices set at between £250 to £275.

My policy would be based on trying to fill the stadium, an empty seat cannot buy merchandise and I would be looking to maximise matchday revenue.

 

[Real Sharapova]

I agree with MK, it is what is being served up on the pitch that will effect attendances the most, although current pricing policy certainly does not help.

At present you could make the tickets £5 and it would not have a significant increase in crowds, if performances and more importantly results start to take a turn for the better than I suspect the crowds will start to return.

I think it is important that the club get the pricing structure correct, IMO a simple and A and B pricing policy would suffice.

My idea would be :

Category A games would be priced at £18 and would be no more than half a dozen matches, these games would include the three recently relegated teams plus the local derbies against Cov and Derby with one other selected game by the club.

Category B games would be all other fixtures and they would be priced at £15.

As for season tickets I would look at making a slight reduction with prices set at between £250 to £275.

My policy would be based on trying to fill the stadium, an empty seat cannot buy merchandise and I would be looking to maximise matchday revenue.

Nice idea, but overall I don't think it would work. Ticket revenues are in effect almost 100% profit. The spend in other areas to make up, say , a loss of £10,000 in ticket revenue would, at a guess, have to be in excess of £50,000.Can't see that happening. As has been stated before, where the club has reduced prices ( Macclesfield ) it has had no discernable effect on attendance.