Premier League clubs reveal cost of a day at the game

Blackburn Rovers marketing manager Simon Williams believes the club's commitment to making football affordable has helped them produce the best value matchday offer in the Premier League.

A survey by BBC Sport showed Rovers offer better value deals for adults without season tickets, than the rest of the top flight.

Rovers offer £10 adult tickets for several games a season - meaning fans can enjoy the match, a pie, a programme and a cup of tea for just £17.50. That's in comparison to Liverpool, where the cheapest day out available is £46.95.

"We made a conscious business four years ago to put bums on seats at Ewood Park through cheap season tickets and £10 tickets for certain category games," said Williams.

"And this has been a great success with the fans, pushing our average home attendance up by several thousand to 25,000. That's fantastic considering the town has a population of 130,000.

"The players have gone on record to say how much the atmosphere in the stadium has improved and how it drives them on. So it does make a difference."

Unsurprisingly, clubs in London are generally more expensive, with Arsenal (£100), Chelsea (£87) and Tottenham (£80) having the highest cost of matchday tickets in the country. However, Chelsea's cheapest ticket is £23.50. Champions Manchester United and cross-city rivals City compare relatively well - United's cheapest day out is £35.60 while City's cheapest ticket is £25.

Newcastle United were the only club of the 104 surveyed in England, Wales and Scotland not to disclose their matchday prices.

In a statement, the Premier League said it did not interfere with prices, but made clear that games are expected across the division were expected to be 92 per cent full this season.

The statement said: "Individual Premier League clubs decide at what level to price their match tickets. What it clear is that they all work extremely hard to fill their grounds with varied pricing pitched at fans with different budgets and needs."

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Bloody lot of Corporate's Arsenal are

It be nice to see how much it cost in non monopoly money.

Fuck, nearly $80 to see shitty Liverpool?

Anfield's got good atmosphere though. Or so I've heard.

No surprise seeing Liverpool overpricing their adult league match tickets.

Ché Guayaba wrote:It be nice to see how much it cost in non monopoly money.

Fuck, nearly $80 to see shitty Liverpool?

1 cent per hoof I think.

Ché Guayaba wrote:Fuck, nearly $80 to see shitty Liverpool?

To be honest it's not much better here. It'll cost you at least $150 to watch the fucking Lakers.

You know how many Dodger or Chivas USA games I can go to for $150? Fuck the Lakers.

Quite proud that both my teams are the cheapest in the Prem and 2nd cheapest in League One

I'm not quite understanding why the cheapest day out is taking in to account the program, tea and pie. Thought those were optional.

Bogdan wrote:I'm not quite understanding why the cheapest day out is taking in to account the program, tea and pie. Thought those were optional.

A match simply ain't the same without your half-time pie

I'm not happy if i don't get a pie and a programme i have like 6 boxes full of matchday programmes

I thought Liverpool were notoriously cheap when it came to tickets. Looks like the benevolent new owners aren't so benevolent after all. whenever I go to a match I don't bother with the programme or a pie though, waste of money, I can go two hours without eating something.

I don't bother too much with programmes unless it's a big game, I've still got the programmes from when Oldham beat both City & Everton as well as a couple when we've beat UTD etc

Only thing I buy at OT is a programme, or a burger outside. Funny how Blackburn are cheapest but still dont fill their stadium..

VivaRonaldo wrote:Only thing I buy at OT is a programme, or a burger outside. Funny how Blackburn are cheapest but still dont fill their stadium..

Yeah well were a small town so it's always going to be like that.

Same could be said for Wigan.

Pilkz wrote:

VivaRonaldo wrote:Only thing I buy at OT is a programme, or a burger outside. Funny how Blackburn are cheapest but still dont fill their stadium..

Yeah well were a small town so it's always going to be like that.

Same could be said for Wigan.

True, true. Wigan is terrible to see.

VivaRonaldo wrote:Only thing I buy at OT is a programme, or a burger outside. Funny how Blackburn are cheapest but still dont fill their stadium..

They get about 1/4 of the population of Blackburn which is pretty impressive

With all the shit happening at the min i haven't renewed my season ticket and the sales have gone down from last years by miles even though the prices were raised by a £10

I have never actually had a half-time pie, it's not really something they do over here.

Cheltenham have the joint second most expensive pie in England .

Because you are all poshers

Ché Guayaba wrote:To be honest it's not much better here. It'll cost you at least $150 to watch the fucking Lakers.

You know how many Dodger or Chivas USA games I can go to for $150? Fuck the Lakers.

That's right it is all about the Heat. (Overpriced but not to the point of LA's inflation rate)

The funny thing is that in Peru, the best seats at most teams not named Universitario cost you about S./ 25or about $10. Granted, a couple of clubs owe two months wages to their players, but the people get to enjoy.

Radford11 wrote:Because you are all poshers

I wouldn't say a half-time burger is posh.

I meant why Cheltenham's prices are so high

Radford11 wrote:I meant why Cheltenham's prices are so high

Oh... right.

Well yes, I would agree that Cheltenham is full of "poshers".

Rumour has it that they all simultaneously raise their glass of Pims and shout "Hurrah!" when they score. I wouldn't know becuase they don't seem to score against us

Radford11 wrote:Rumour has it that they all simultaneously raise their glass of Pims and shout "Hurrah!" when they score. I wouldn't know becuase they don't seem to score against us

I hear their home matches kick-off at Pim's o'clock.

Radford11 wrote:Rumour has it that they all simultaneously raise their glass of Pims and shout "Hurrah!" when they score. I wouldn't know becuase they don't seem to score against us

Haha, we did that in our 3-2 defeat against you Radford . You will hear lots of chants of "Hurrah!" when we finally, finally, finally beat you

We're not all rich bastards over here though .