£85 for a ticket

Callumcafc

That’s the cheapest adult ticket option at Aston Villa if you want to watch Champions League football this season.

Great deal if you’re a season ticket holder, only £70 per match.

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2024/september/04/champions-league-ticket-details/

stoneroses19

They can charge a maximum of £50 per ticket for away fans. Unfair on the home fans then, surely they could have arranged £50 for all seats.  

stoneroses19

Looking at the four English sides for champions league, it's a varied ticket range. 

Liverpool's home ticket from £30 to £61
Man City from £37 to £62
Arsenal from £74 to £106 (ticket included for season ticket holders)
Aston Villa from £70 to £97

eastterrace6168

Won’t be troubling us for a while…😏

charltonkeston

Not only do these clubs get a large fortune from tv rights & prize money in the EPL they get an enormous amount for appearing in the Champions league and the also want to gouge their own fan base. I suppose the charge what they know fans will pay to see their clubs play.
Hopefully its something that we won't have to worry about ever.

Off_it

Is that the "surge" price?

Sheepie1985

Just buy an away ticket, they're capped at £50 at all games

Chris_from_Sidcup

Ticket prices have become crazy in recent seasons. It wasn't so long ago that i remember reading that PL clubs made so much money from tv and sponsorships that ticket money was practically irrelevant.

Yet in recent years prices have hyper-inflated and clubs would now rather sell out the ground to 50k tourists paying way over the odds matchday prices than have 50k local season ticket holders.

Blucher

I think the broadcasting deals have tended to flatline over the last couple of years, so Premier League clubs are now looking to squeeze their supporters more aggressively. There are also now more American owners, some of whom are looking to make a substantial turn on their investment. As Kieran Maguire says, these individuals look at football through a financial - as opposed to an emotional - lens.

They probably don’t care about a number of supporters falling by the wayside, as they feel these ‘legacy fans’ can be replaced by more lucrative tourist fans.

ShootersHillGuru

Blucher said:

I think the broadcasting deals have tended to flatline over the last couple of years, so Premier League clubs are now looking to squeeze their supporters more aggressively. There are also now more American owners, some of whom are looking to make a substantial turn on their investment. As Kieran Maguire says, these individuals look at football through a financial - as opposed to an emotional - lens.

They probably don’t care about a number of supporters falling by the wayside, as they feel these ‘legacy fans’ can be replaced by more lucrative tourist fans.

I hope they fall on their arses.

JohnBoyUK

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

Ticket prices have become crazy in recent seasons. It wasn't so long ago that i remember reading that PL clubs made so much money from tv and sponsorships that ticket money was practically irrelevant.

Yet in recent years prices have hyper-inflated and clubs would now rather sell out the ground to 50k tourists paying way over the odds matchday prices than have 50k local season ticket holders.

When you factor in Spurs earn £5m pure profit from every home game... then add in the NFL, Rugby, Boxing, Concerts...

FWIW, my Cat A safe-standing ticket for the NLD the Sunday after next is £84.  Over a season, that works out at just shy of £1,600.  Behind the goal, pretty much level with the penalty area line.  Absolutely nothing special about it at all.

If I dont pay it, someone else will.  I don't bloody like it but I want to watch my team and it just isn't the same watching at home on TV.

Chizz

I'd pay double that to see Charlton in the Champions League.  

Valiantphil

Villa avoided a (probable) 10’point deduction for FFP with the last minute sale of a player to Italy (?) on deadline day. 
They are skint - from a FFP viewpoint. 

jimmymelrose

People making money out of other people's addictive habit. 
It’s hard to quit, eh?

In today’s society the only ways to combat this are:

1. Argue that the ticket prices are bad for the mental health of fans who can’t afford to feed their addiction.

2. Argue that the American owners are legacyfanophobic. Creating a ’phobia’ out of something  can illegitimise anything.

3. For fans of the respective clubs to go on a hunger strike or just simply block the roads.

4. For everyone to cancel their subscriptions for pay to watch TV football (what I call Consumer Voting - the only true democracy we have).

Of course, the easiest solution - being that it is within everyone’s power - is the one that our incohesive society would never do.

Chris_from_Sidcup

Valiantphil said:

Villa avoided a (probable) 10’point deduction for FFP with the last minute sale of a player to Italy (?) on deadline day. 
They are skint - from a FFP viewpoint. 

They fixed that and then spent almost 150m on players this summer.

Off_it

jimmymelrose said:

People making money out of other people's addictive habit. 
It’s hard to quit, eh?

In today’s society the only ways to combat this are:

1. Argue that the ticket prices are bad for the mental health of fans who can’t afford to feed their addiction.

2. Argue that the American owners are legacyfanophobic. Creating a ’phobia’ out of something  can illegitimise anything.

3. For fans of the respective clubs to go on a hunger strike or just simply block the roads.

4. For everyone to cancel their subscriptions for pay to watch TV football (what I call Consumer Voting - the only true democracy we have).

Of course, the easiest solution - being that it is within everyone’s power - is the one that our incohesive society would never do.

Wow. 

Is it a family thing?

I used to have you down as the "sensible one" (relatively speaking)

Callumcafc

https://x.com/johntownley11/status/1832051035340406946?s=46&t=ynww82GMl7VKBjthBflU0g

#AVFC have increased the price of disabled matchday parking spaces outside the North Stand by a whopping 100%, from £190 to £380.

Disabled fans were given no prior warning when asked on the week before the first home game of the season to pay double to keep their spot.

stoneroses19

Callumcafc said:

https://x.com/johntownley11/status/1832051035340406946?s=46&t=ynww82GMl7VKBjthBflU0g

#AVFC have increased the price of disabled matchday parking spaces outside the North Stand by a whopping 100%, from £190 to £380.

Disabled fans were given no prior warning when asked on the week before the first home game of the season to pay double to keep their spot.

They've already changed it back to last season price and issued an apology. 

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2024/september/06/amendments-made-for-relevant-supporters/

Cloudworm

Yeah, but the more money you pump into sports the better they get .... Yeah? 👍 

Braziliance

The pricing is steep, but I've got to be honest, if Charlton had players like Ollie Watkins, Onana and Tielemans, and I was watching my team against huge historical clubs like Juventus and Bayern, I'd get over it pretty quickly. 

I'd find a way to make the money. I'm willing to pay 30 quid for tickets watching mostly, pants players week in week out, against the likes of Stevenage and Northampton, not including travel expenses. I don't even want to think how much I'd be willing to part with to watch Charlton in Aston Villas position currently.

Wheresmeticket

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

Ticket prices have become crazy in recent seasons. It wasn't so long ago that i remember reading that PL clubs made so much money from tv and sponsorships that ticket money was practically irrelevant.

Yet in recent years prices have hyper-inflated and clubs would now rather sell out the ground to 50k tourists paying way over the odds matchday prices than have 50k local season ticket holders.

You've got to find some strategy for keeping the riff-raff away.

jimmymelrose

Off_it said:

jimmymelrose said:

People making money out of other people's addictive habit. 
It’s hard to quit, eh?

In today’s society the only ways to combat this are:

1. Argue that the ticket prices are bad for the mental health of fans who can’t afford to feed their addiction.

2. Argue that the American owners are legacyfanophobic. Creating a ’phobia’ out of something  can illegitimise anything.

3. For fans of the respective clubs to go on a hunger strike or just simply block the roads.

4. For everyone to cancel their subscriptions for pay to watch TV football (what I call Consumer Voting - the only true democracy we have).

Of course, the easiest solution - being that it is within everyone’s power - is the one that our incohesive society would never do.

Wow. 

Is it a family thing?

I used to have you down as the "sensible one" (relatively speaking)

Sorry, I’ve got older since you met me / knew me I guess. I’m just sick of modern day football and often society per se. I feel like a stranger in my own country and a stranger in my adopted one too. Having two teenage kids who show you social media all the time doesn’t help. My nine year old daughter has the thinking of a typical nine year old but sometimes I think ’yeah, why not, we should do it her innocent, naive way, can’t be any more stupid than the world being run by the politician and media control freaks we have’.

And bollox to all foreign owners in football and in any given country generally. My nine year old would say that all the players, managers and owners have to live at the training ground or stadium together. Sounds mad but less mad than what we have. 

Covered End

If I emigrated I think I'd feel like a stranger in both countries (to begin with).