The cost of Spurs

[stevenurse]

The new statistics out today are pretty damning of football in England as a whole, but the prices for spurs specifically make horrible reading.

2nd most expensive season ticket, with the cheapest being £765 and most expensive £1895. Only behind arsenal for worst value for each goal scored with every home goal costing an average of £25.50.

I know it's not fair to compare to other nations but this will certainly be a contributing factor to why the atmospheres are often terrible in the prem as opposed to someone like Dortmund who are charging less than £13 for some tickets whereas our cheapest ticket is £32.

The shame is that this won't ever change. It's a case of supply and demand. The club knows that they can almost hold fans to ransom because we love our club and will always have a blind loyalty so will therefore pay whatever it costs.

Especially with the increase in TV money, it's a real shame to see that greed prevailed instead of using it as a chance to allow fans to be made important again

 

[Mustard]

The new statistics out today are pretty damning of football in England as a whole, but the prices for spurs specifically make horrible reading.

2nd most expensive season ticket, with the cheapest being £765 and most expensive £1895. Only behind arsenal for worst value for each goal scored with every home goal costing an average of £25.50.

I know it's not fair to compare to other nations but this will certainly be a contributing factor to why the atmospheres are often terrible in the prem as opposed to someone like Dortmund who are charging less than £13 for some tickets whereas our cheapest ticket is £32.

The shame is that this won't ever change. It's a case of supply and demand. The club knows that they can almost hold fans to ransom because we love our club and will always have a blind loyalty so will therefore pay whatever it costs.

Especially with the increase in TV money, it's a real shame to see that greed prevailed instead of using it as a chance to allow fans to be made important again

The wages of the players are out of control. All the money from TV is wasted on often bang average footballers on 50k a week.

 

[Mustard]

The new statistics out today are pretty damning of football in England as a whole, but the prices for spurs specifically make horrible reading.

2nd most expensive season ticket, with the cheapest being £765 and most expensive £1895. Only behind arsenal for worst value for each goal scored with every home goal costing an average of £25.50.

I know it's not fair to compare to other nations but this will certainly be a contributing factor to why the atmospheres are often terrible in the prem as opposed to someone like Dortmund who are charging less than £13 for some tickets whereas our cheapest ticket is £32.

The shame is that this won't ever change. It's a case of supply and demand. The club knows that they can almost hold fans to ransom because we love our club and will always have a blind loyalty so will therefore pay whatever it costs.

Especially with the increase in TV money, it's a real shame to see that greed prevailed instead of using it as a chance to allow fans to be made important again

And another thing. Our season tickets are more expensive than the scum because they get more European and cup games with their season ticket.

Last time I had a season ticket it cost me 370 quid. That's what it costs for 2 or 3 games now.

 

[tototoner]

‘Price of a goal’

Based on last season's results and prices, a home goal cost about £25.50 at Tottenhamin 2013-14.

Man City £4.75
Leicester £7.61
Burnley £8.89
QPR £10.24
Everton £11.23
Stoke £12.74
Swansea £13.00
Liverpool £13.40
Chelsea £13.84
West Brom £14.54
Aston Villa £14.77
Southampton £16.25
Man Utd £18.34
Sunderland £19.05
Hull £19.25
Crystal Palace £20.00
Newcastle £23.04
West Ham £24.00
Tottenham £25.50
Arsenal £27.36

Based on cheapest season ticket cost last season and home goals scored.

 

[ginola99]

The sad truth is that the love for your football team is pretty much unconditional, and the clubs know this. The kind of prices you see in Germany will never happen in this country, well in my life time for sure.

 

[Coyboy]

At least the food and drink at WHL is worth every penny.

 

[jonnyp]

The wages of the players are out of control. All the money from TV is wasted on often bang average footballers on 50k a week.

This is the problem.

 

[Dirty Ewok]

The new statistics out today are pretty damning of football in England as a whole, but the prices for spurs specifically make horrible reading.

2nd most expensive season ticket, with the cheapest being £765 and most expensive £1895. Only behind arsenal for worst value for each goal scored with every home goal costing an average of £25.50.

I know it's not fair to compare to other nations but this will certainly be a contributing factor to why the atmospheres are often terrible in the prem as opposed to someone like Dortmund who are charging less than £13 for some tickets whereas our cheapest ticket is £32.

The shame is that this won't ever change. It's a case of supply and demand. The club knows that they can almost hold fans to ransom because we love our club and will always have a blind loyalty so will therefore pay whatever it costs.

Especially with the increase in TV money, it's a real shame to see that greed prevailed instead of using it as a chance to allow fans to be made important again

Like you said, tough to compare different countries.

Germany is helped by the 50+1 rule where virtually all the teams are operating with a massive amount of input by supporters. In those cases it becomes tough to raise ticket prices because you have to get that by the supporters who have a huge amount of input in the club's decisions.

I have to say that one of the things that i really like about a few of the clubs in Germany is that they hold seats for day before/day of sales.....the seats may be shit, but the seats are cheap and anyone can go pick up a ticket if they are willing to wait it out before the match. Makes the tickets less exclusive and keeps the atmosphere from being bogged down by people who are just at the match because it is an event.

That said.....

In the UK the player salaries are completely out of control which i think is one of the massive impacting issues with pricing. If you have to pay mediocre players £50K/wk it also means you have to pay your star players eye watering salaries and your wage bill becomes out of control and it steam-rolls from there.

As long as the salaries are so high (along with other costs) i don't know that we will ever see the prices come down on tickets, and with so much money being made off TV rights i don't know that it even is a possibility anywhere in the foreseeable future.

 

[carpediem991]

The Ticket prices are not my problem. Flights and hotels are

 

[Kendall]

‘Price of a goal’

Based on last season's results and prices, a home goal cost about £25.50 at Tottenhamin 2013-14.

Man City £4.75
Leicester £7.61
Burnley £8.89
QPR £10.24
Everton £11.23
Stoke £12.74
Swansea £13.00
Liverpool £13.40
Chelsea £13.84
West Brom £14.54
Aston Villa £14.77
Southampton £16.25
Man Utd £18.34
Sunderland £19.05
Hull £19.25
Crystal Palace £20.00
Newcastle £23.04
West Ham £24.00
Tottenham £25.50
Arsenal £27.36

Based on cheapest season ticket cost last season and home goals scored.

That is putrid. I wonder what the price per goal was under AVB, surely as good a reason as any for him to go.

 

[Kendall]

The Mrs and I are going to the game on Saturday - £54 per ticket, up 80% on the price I paid for the same fixture in 2010.

 

[tommo84]

Its worth noting that the cost of the ticket and some food/drink is only about 60% of my matchday expense, with the cost of train travel from MK to Seven Sisters also being exortionate compared to other other countries.

Its not just football that does this - as a nation we are held to ransom by the private sector and taxed up to the eyeballs to pay for the public sector. Neither of which provides us with value for money, and indeed it often ends up feeling like we've paid for some essential services twice (but I digress). For as long as such extortion is acceptable in other industies (energy and transport in particular) then there's little hope of an unregulated private enterprise like a football club leading the way in bucking the trend.

I agree with what the Cheltenham chairman has said about the comparisons between League 2 clubs and Man City also: Man City are able to operate on another financial plain to everyone else.

 

[Spurslove]

The sad truth is that the love for your football team is pretty much unconditional, and the clubs know this. The kind of prices you see in Germany will never happen in this country, well in my life time for sure.

Clubs have been relying on emotional blackmailing their fans for donkey's years. I said bollocks to THFC five years ago when I decided I wasn't going to pay over £1000 for my season ticket (I'd held it for 32 years) when I can watch the vast majority of the games on my own tele.

 

[beats1]

‘Price of a goal’

Based on last season's results and prices, a home goal cost about £25.50 at Tottenhamin 2013-14.

Man City £4.75
Leicester £7.61
Burnley £8.89
QPR £10.24
Everton £11.23
Stoke £12.74
Swansea £13.00
Liverpool £13.40
Chelsea £13.84
West Brom £14.54
Aston Villa £14.77
Southampton £16.25
Man Utd £18.34
Sunderland £19.05
Hull £19.25
Crystal Palace £20.00
Newcastle £23.04
West Ham £24.00
Tottenham £25.50
Arsenal £27.36

Based on cheapest season ticket cost last season and home goals scored.

Thats a load of bollocks

Arsenal include 7 cup games in the cost of their season ticket, are the people at the bbc so inept they can consider this?

That had 13 goals and reduces the cost to £20.69

We include 2 cup games(so arsenal's is cheaper than us when you consider they get more category A games free as opposed to our qualification games which cat c games)

Though on a per game bollocks(which is wrong, since they used this years prices with last years goals), we are £21.25 per goal

BUT AT THE SAME TIME, you can argue that this silly method of finding value for money also makes us the most expensive season ticket as our cheapest season ticket, which is one they are likely used for the calculations, is one that has a restricted view so therefore they never did view all the goals hence they didn't pay to watch them so their average is higher.

Ticket prices makes me grumpy

 

[Coyboy]

This is the problem.

But as far as I understand, the TV Money and wages are a separate issue. The former pays for the latter. Why clubs make ticket prices so extortionate is to get some extra cash because they know they can, though there is clearly a limit for some clubs' fans. I believe some clubs could survive and be profitable even if the stadia were empty.

 

[robin09]

Prices will have to come down if they want to fill the new stadium.

Or alternatively, they leave them at the prices they are, and have half empty stadiums, or near completely empty stadiums for Europa and cup matches.

 

[WestBelfast Spurs]

Spurs being Spurs near cost me a son!

 

[yankspurs]

Well even though those prices are obscene, be happy your not from the states where you support multiple teams in different sports with some cheapest ticket prices worth more than that £32, even on stubhub. Its honestly ridiculous!

I tried to go to a Rangers hockey game last season, a couple hundred bucks cheapest! In the playoffs? A couple grand! Fuck that shit.

Ticket prices for sporting events are ABSURD!!!

 

[HobbitSpur]

Although I am disgusted wit the prices of tickets throughout the PL, the figures can tend to be a little misleading. It would be a fr better gauge to list the price of all ticket levels and the percentage within each category.

 

[shelfmonkey]

Well even though those prices are obscene, be happy your not from the states where you support multiple teams in different sports with some cheapest ticket prices worth more than that £32, even on stubhub. Its honestly ridiculous!

I tried to go to a Rangers hockey game last season, a couple hundred bucks cheapest! In the playoffs? A couple grand! Fuck that shit.

Ticket prices for sporting events are ABSURD!!!

That'll be the future of the Premier League!! :-/