5% Season Ticket Price Rise For 2025/26

[Utd heap]

Explain that a bit more for me please mate.

Let's use Stretford Lower as an example.

ST holder prices up £2.50 a game. £41 > £43.50.

Members prices for the section this season were £51. So £51 > £53.50.

BUT.

Members pricing next season goes into dynamic pricing.

So you can assume MINIMUM £53.50 a game for lowest category.

Highest category £66+? Who knows.

Yet if I pick up the same ticket for ANY category off a ST holder, I can get the ticket forwarded for £43.

We have also now lost another section of the ground to hospitality. So less tickets for members. More at the £199+ price point.

 

[Wednesday at Stoke]

Nice of them to wait until we won two in a row to release the hike.

 

[Gavinb33]

Was expecting worse - still not great though.

Gutted for the fans who are going to be moved from seats next to the dugout

Same was thinking anywhere between £5-10 a game so £2.50 while not ideal isn't the worst I was thinking

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

By shit..you mean interest on debt and dividends.

Interest yes. Dividends we’re banned for three years because Ratcliffe wanted it in his share purchase agreement.

 

[dave1956]

He also needs the extra funds to pay off his advertising Grenadier contract with Spurs.

 

[macheda14]

Pensioners as an age group are generally asset rich, they will be fine.

Asset rich but cash poor. What do you think they should sell or remortgage their house for a season ticket?

 

[macheda14]

He also needs the extra funds to pay off his advertising Grenadier contract with Spurs.

That will be completely separate to the club. INEOS currently won’t be taking dividends or profits from the clubs so that’s just INEOS stomaching that bill.

 

[McGrathsipan]

Let's use Stretford Lower as an example.

ST holder prices up £2.50 a game. £41 > £43.50.

Members prices for the section this season were £51. So £51 > £53.50.

BUT.

Members pricing next season goes into dynamic pricing.

So you can assume MINIMUM £53.50 a game for lowest category.

Highest category £66+? Who knows.

Yet if I pick up the same ticket for ANY category off a ST holder, I can get the ticket forwarded for £43.

We have also now lost another section of the ground to hospitality. So less tickets for members. More at the £199+ price point.

Cheers.

Seems like a loophole they'll close

 

[KStandBarmyArmy1993]

See that away end last night?
That's the culture and beating heart of the club that they're killing with this nonsense.

 

[hp88]

See that away end last night?
That's the culture and beating heart of the club that they're killing with this nonsense.

7PM on Sunday and a 100 Miles away from London, of course it was going to be one of the best away ends all season

 

[USREDEVIL]

Jimflation

 

[Valencia Shin Crosses]

How does United's ticket prices compare to the other EPL teams?

Believe it’s still pretty low compared to other big teams

 

[hp88]

To support our ongoing work to stop ticket touting (which this season has seen us take action against over 6,500 accounts), and to ensure a safe stadium for fans to enjoy the game in, we are introducing ID verification.

Ahead of renewing, Season Ticket holders will be sent a link where they will need to take a photo of some valid photo ID (e.g. passport or driving licence) and take a live photograph, before their ID is cross-referenced against the information we hold (name and date of birth).

Only once the ID check has been passed will fans be able to proceed to renew their Season Ticket.

The process, which is managed by external provider GBG, is very straight forward and quick to complete and is now used by lots of organisations. We will not store your photo or identification once the verification has been completed, and full details and privacy information will be provided prior to completion.

If the name on your Season Ticket needs updating, please email feedback@manutd.co.uk by Monday 31 March with details. Any requests after this date will not be considered.

Looks like we are having another amnesty for tickets which might have been passed down in the family.

 

[Livewire1974]

Fans forced to pay for the lavish luxury lifestyles of the Glazer vermin.

 

[Valencia Shin Crosses]

See that away end last night?
That's the culture and beating heart of the club that they're killing with this nonsense.

I’m just not sure what many of you lot expect. Globally prices have risen on fecking everything, and now you a top 3 brand in football that’s financially so far in the red that they are forced to cut every excess cost possible to stay afloat cash wise. If anything it’s a miracle that ticket prices have stayed as low as they have for this long.

 

[Plant0x84]

See that away end last night?
That's the culture and beating heart of the club that they're killing with this nonsense.

Does season ticket price affect the away support?

 

[JB7]

How does United's ticket prices compare to the other EPL teams?

24/25 pricing:

Club	Least Expensive Match Ticket (£)	Most Expensive Match Ticket (£)
Arsenal	30.30	141
Aston Villa	44.50	92
Bournemouth	30	49
Brentford	30	65
Brighton	33	78
Chelsea	53	75
Crystal Palace	48	58
Everton	55	55
Fulham	50	160
Ipswich Town	32	48
Leicester City	33	72
Liverpool	39	61
Manchester City	43	67.50
Manchester United	41	66
Newcastle United	32	70
Nottingham Forest	45	60
Southampton	25	70
Tottenham Hotspur	38	109
West Ham United	30	105
Wolves	26.50	71

Club	Least Expensive Season Ticket (£)	Most Expensive Season Ticket (£)
Arsenal	1,073	2,050.50
Aston Villa	640	944
Bournemouth	633	875
Brentford	495	598
Brighton	595	860
Chelsea	787.50	1,015
Crystal Palace	545	895
Everton	650	740
Fulham	619	3,000+
Ipswich Town	381	903
Leicester City	404	1,289
Liverpool	713	904
Manchester City	425	1,122
Manchester United	579	1,057
Newcastle United	662	1,163
Nottingham Forest	550	850
Southampton	499	899
Tottenham Hotspur	856	2,367
West Ham United	345	1,720
Wolves	525	939

According to the BBC, United's "average gate yield per fan" is £58.93 which is the fourth highest in the league.

Liverpool, Brentford and Wolves have confirmed price freezes for 25/26; although I do want to say that Wolves should receive no credit for doing so after their disgraceful rises last season of circa 20%.

 

[Rood]

Overpriced bottles of carling is the only beer they offer iirc.

Carling, Madri & John Smiths nowadays - not that I really want to drink any of them but it's actually pretty cheap to drink in the ground at £3.80 a pint/bottle

No doubt this will go up too though

 

[Rood]

Madness if it's now £70 for city at home if I buy it from Utd. But £43 if I buy it off a ST holder.

Details of the pricing categories is going to be the most interesting part

 

[ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg]

Fans forced to pay for the lavish luxury lifestyles of the Glazer vermin.

Paying the lavish lifestyle of some vastly overpaid footballers as well.

 

[Rood]

Was expecting worse - still not great though.

Gutted for the fans who are going to be moved from seats next to the dugout

Same was thinking anywhere between £5-10 a game so £2.50 while not ideal isn't the worst I was thinking

I'm sure they wanted to do more but the PR disaster of the £66, pressure from fan groups and protests forced a push back

 

[Ole'sgunnarwin]

24/25 pricing:

Club	Least Expensive Match Ticket (£)	Most Expensive Match Ticket (£)
Arsenal	30.30	141
Aston Villa	44.50	92
Bournemouth	30	49
Brentford	30	65
Brighton	33	78
Chelsea	53	75
Crystal Palace	48	58
Everton	55	55
Fulham	50	160
Ipswich Town	32	48
Leicester City	33	72
Liverpool	39	61
Manchester City	43	67.50
Manchester United	41	66
Newcastle United	32	70
Nottingham Forest	45	60
Southampton	25	70
Tottenham Hotspur	38	109
West Ham United	30	105
Wolves	26.50	71

Club	Least Expensive Season Ticket (£)	Most Expensive Season Ticket (£)
Arsenal	1,073	2,050.50
Aston Villa	640	944
Bournemouth	633	875
Brentford	495	598
Brighton	595	860
Chelsea	787.50	1,015
Crystal Palace	545	895
Everton	650	740
Fulham	619	3,000+
Ipswich Town	381	903
Leicester City	404	1,289
Liverpool	713	904
Manchester City	425	1,122
Manchester United	579	1,057
Newcastle United	662	1,163
Nottingham Forest	550	850
Southampton	499	899
Tottenham Hotspur	856	2,367
West Ham United	345	1,720
Wolves	525	939

According to the BBC, United's "average gate yield per fan" is £58.93 which is the fourth highest in the league.

Liverpool, Brentford and Wolves have confirmed price freezes for 25/26; although I do want to say that Wolves should receive no credit for doing so after their disgraceful rises last season of circa 20%.

What's the reason Fulham has the most expensive ticket?

 

[JB7]

What's the reason Fulham has the most expensive ticket?

Basically because they have a new stand that is specifically aimed at tourists and even the cheapest seats in it are £150 a game. It's a joke really.

 

[wolvored]

5% isnt too bad in the grand scheme of things. Water Power CT all have gone up around this. If it gets the club to be able to buy players to make us entertaining and competing again, then some things have to change. It never rised in 11 years as well. At least it isnt going into dividends for the parasites.

 

[Ole'sgunnarwin]

Basically because they have a new stand that is specifically aimed at tourists and even the cheapest seats in it are £150 a game. It's a joke really.

Ooof, that's madness, thanks

 

[DOTA]

5% isnt too bad in the grand scheme of things. Water Power CT all have gone up around this. If it gets the club to be able to buy players to make us entertaining and competing again, then some things have to change. It never rised in 11 years as well. At least it isnt going into dividends for the parasites.

It won't. It's a tiny increase to our incomings.

 

[P-Nut]

I'd rather them add more hospitality seats than try and make that money off ST holders.

I'm not even a ST holder and talking from a selfish point of view. It makes more sense to charge more to people that will attend as a one off, rather than putting a bigger charge on those that have attended for years and will be there every week.

 

[gaffs]

Believe it’s still pretty low compared to other big teams

We are midtable in terms on pitch performance, and in prices...
https://www.givemesport.com/every-premier-league-clubs-cheapest-season-ticket-2024-25/

I know these number are last season, and only reflect the lowest ST price, not the average, but still, we are cheaper many other big clubs.

I was a ST holder for the best part of 10 years and my ticket went from around £33 to £36 in that time.

 

[Pscholes18]

So people behind the dugout are being removed for hospitality, and if you want to return your ticket there can be a £10 charge for it. Car parking up 15%

What a scummy thing to do. This fecking club.

 

[Banana Republic]

The price of everything has gone up massively over the last few years, especially for commercial enterprises and businesses.
Staff wages will need to rise and have to be paid for somehow.
The present government has now added huge hikes in tax and NI on to companies.
It’s inevitable that Utd, like any company faced with these difficult circumstances, is having to deal with those rising costs.
That’s before you even start to look at the club’s loss making finances and growing debt.

Nobody is profiteering from this.
The club is losing money and it can’t go on much longer without all the structural changes that the new management team are having to carry out.
It should surprise no one that ticket price rises would occur.
£2.50 doesn’t even buy you a coffee or a pint of beer.

If they’d have announced a reduction in ticket prices instead, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’d were loads of complaints about that too.



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[G97]

The wording of the email I found to be nothing short of repulsive and insulting… certainly the use of the word “irresponsible”…

“We understand that any
price rise is unwelcome,
especially during a
period of
underperformance on
the pitch, and we
listened carefully to the
strong arguments put
forward by our Fans'
Advisory Board in favour
of a freeze. However, the
club has decided that it
would be irresponsible to
keep prices unchanged
while costs rise, and the
club continues to lose money”.


The clubs losing money because of their ownership failures and club debts. So for them to push it on to the fans to pay off their debts and mismanagement is Disgusting.

How do they think this reads?? Seriously? For so many loyal fans who have had season tickets for decades, made sacrifices, worked overtime and have been on the bones of their arse so they can renew each season… This club is dying.

 

[lolok]

24/25 pricing:

Club	Least Expensive Match Ticket (£)	Most Expensive Match Ticket (£)
Arsenal	30.30	141
Aston Villa	44.50	92
Bournemouth	30	49
Brentford	30	65
Brighton	33	78
Chelsea	53	75
Crystal Palace	48	58
Everton	55	55
Fulham	50	160
Ipswich Town	32	48
Leicester City	33	72
Liverpool	39	61
Manchester City	43	67.50
Manchester United	41	66
Newcastle United	32	70
Nottingham Forest	45	60
Southampton	25	70
Tottenham Hotspur	38	109
West Ham United	30	105
Wolves	26.50	71

Club	Least Expensive Season Ticket (£)	Most Expensive Season Ticket (£)
Arsenal	1,073	2,050.50
Aston Villa	640	944
Bournemouth	633	875
Brentford	495	598
Brighton	595	860
Chelsea	787.50	1,015
Crystal Palace	545	895
Everton	650	740
Fulham	619	3,000+
Ipswich Town	381	903
Leicester City	404	1,289
Liverpool	713	904
Manchester City	425	1,122
Manchester United	579	1,057
Newcastle United	662	1,163
Nottingham Forest	550	850
Southampton	499	899
Tottenham Hotspur	856	2,367
West Ham United	345	1,720
Wolves	525	939

According to the BBC, United's "average gate yield per fan" is £58.93 which is the fourth highest in the league.

Liverpool, Brentford and Wolves have confirmed price freezes for 25/26; although I do want to say that Wolves should receive no credit for doing so after their disgraceful rises last season of circa 20%.

Thanks. I was very curious.

Cheapest season ticket for my local club, FC Cincinnati (MLS,) is 336 pounds/$437. These are behind the goal that are standing only. One side of the stadium is club seats only-- and that ranges from 1700 pounds to 6900 pounds. On the other side its 700-1500 pounds for tickets. Basically the only cheaper tickets are behind the goal, or upper deck in the corner of the stadium. Our cheapest tickets are still cheaper than every EPL team-- but lets be real. You get to watch the best players in the world-- MLS is like watching the bottom half of the Championship. (Minus a few exceptions.)

As for ST pricing and Member pricing) we have the same thing for all of the sports. MLS/MLB/NFL (those are the only 3 professional leagues in my city.) If you buy a season ticket, then the average cost of the ticket is less than if you tried to buy a single game ticket. It makes sense-- when you buy goods in bulk, you get a discount. If you buy an entire season ticket, then you get a discount over the single game price.

We've had dynamic pricing for years. NBA is a perfect example. When Lebron James or Steph Curry come to town-- those tickets are double or triple the regular price. When loser teams come to town, or it's a weekday, the prices drop. Only makes sense to charge a bit more when facing good teams-- and less when you play a terrible team. When Messi comes to town, every MLS team massively increases their single game ticket prices.

No one likes price increases, especially since United has been garbage recently. It's a bit easier to stomach when you are winning. But I feel they need to gradually increase prices as so there isn't a bigger shock when (if) United get the new stadium completed. If history is any indicator, at least here in the USA, when a team moves into a new stadium, expect a price increase.

At least you have cheap beer-- I'm looking around $12/9.25 pounds a pint at the game.

 

[SecondFig]

We should aim to be affordable to local regular attending fans. The whole thing loses a lot of its charm without them.

This is bad and they shouldn't have done it.

100% - and I say this as someone who lives in Australia these days, so when I get to a game (rarely) it's very much as a tourist - but;

The majority of tickets should be going to, and priced for, regularly attending local fans. And the number of tickets available to tourist fans should be restricted. Look at how clubs like Dortmund do it - they make a big effort to explain that while they want visitors to be able to experience a Dortmund game, in order to do they need to restrict the number of tickets available so that the tourists are part of a local crowd, who sing, who chant, who are regular match-going fans. Because if you're a tourist (like me) you don't want to go to a game and be surrounded by other tourists, you want to be surrounded by local match-going fans who create an atmosphere.

 

[KStandBarmyArmy1993]

The price of everything has gone up massively over the last few years, especially for commercial enterprises and businesses.
Staff wages will need to rise and have to be paid for somehow.
The present government has now added huge hikes in tax and NI on to companies.
It’s inevitable that Utd, like any company faced with these difficult circumstances, is having to deal with those rising costs.
That’s before you even start to look at the club’s loss making finances and growing debt.

Nobody is profiteering from this.
The club is losing money and it can’t go on much longer without all the structural changes that the new management team are having to carry out.
It should surprise no one that ticket price rises would occur.
£2.50 doesn’t even buy you a coffee or a pint of beer.

If they’d have announced a reduction in ticket prices instead, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’d were loads of complaints about that too.



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Zero matchgoing fans would have complained about a reduction in prices ffs.

Everything about their announcement is shit. I'd love to know how they are gonna decide which games will have the higher category pricing. I look forward to them justifying Villa or Forest as a "category A" next season because they're in the Champions League and we can therefore change £70.

 

[rimaldo]

Asset rich but cash poor. What do you think they should sell or remortgage their house for a season ticket?

I can’t help but feel they would not be in such an invidious position if they did not spend all their money on beef tongue sandwiches and phone calls to their Grandchildren.

 

[Rood]

Zero matchgoing fans would have complained about a reduction in prices ffs.

Everything about their announcement is shit. I'd love to know how they are gonna decide which games will have the higher category pricing. I look forward to them justifying Villa or Forest as a "category A" next season because they're in the Champions League and we can therefore change £70.

Lately it's only City & Liverpool that have massive demand to justify a higher price

Used to be Arsenal, Chelsea and maybe Spurs too but not so much nowadays

 

[Rood]

MUST survey for match goers - worth completing as it's only due to the FAB, MUST etc that price rises weren't worse

 

[Rossa]

I can understand why they need to raise ticket prices, but I disagree. For me, living in Norway, it matter next to nothing. However, I for one have never understood how fans can support player wages as if it is a vacuum on its own. What we see now is that the regular guy in the stands have to pay more due to greedy over-paid players who have lost all contact with reality. Nobody on this planet deserves hundreds of thousands of pounds pr week - not even per month. Least of all do footballers deserve these ridiculous wages. Of course someone has to pay for it - be it as a result of increased ticket prices, more expensive supporter kits, more expensive clothing related to the brand, etc.

Ratcliffe needs to cut costs, and when he is succesful at that, he needs to pay back the fans who are in fact loyal, much more so than the over-paid players. If that was a premise, when things are stabilized, the fans are re-paid, then I would believe in this, but right now, it smells like a capitalist milking of supporters to increase revenues to feed the pockets of the already obscenely rich. I wonder if Berrada, Wilcox etc will freeze their wages?

Honestly, this cut should come for the players and management, not to be added to the cost of the supporters. I really hope they have sense not to bump any contracts, and to sell players like Mainoo if they demand over the top wages.

 

[McGrathsipan]

Fans forced to pay for the lavish luxury lifestyles of the Glazer vermin.

and the lavish luxury lifestyles of the players

We are customers. Not fans. Been that way for a very long time now

 

[MaxZorin]

Bit of a pisstake really considering how shit of a matchday experience it is. Get there early and instead of having the earlier kickoff on the concourse tvs, they'll have MUTV on with the speakers on low volume so you can all stand there and watch Wes Brown talk into a microphone without knowing what he's saying. Overpriced bottles of carling is the only beer they offer iirc.

Go out to your seats to watch the players warm up and they'll have some awful grime music playing loudly on the stadium speakers, which is paused every few minutes whilst the stadium announcer reads out birthday requests like he's reading off a shopping list. If the weather is bad then there's a chance the leaking roof will drench your seat and give you a wet arse.

Unless of course you have any interest in buying their expensive merchandise in the megastore (I haven't been inside there since I was a child).

If that was a pub experience then you'd give it a 1 star review.

I always try to time it right so I can get there 10-15 minutes before kickoff but traffic can be difficult to predict. Sometimes I'm there over an hour before kickoff and bored out of my mind scrolling through my phone.

However, according to Ratcliffe, our season ticket prices shouldn't be cheaper than Fulham's.

Not sure what a new stadium can do to alleviate these problems. I go to the match to watch the match, not watch tv or get a cheese room experience. i have never been inside the megastore.

The booze and food is overpriced. Usually, I go to the corner cafe (fishcake and chip £6) and get a drink before KO but never half-time, as the queue is enormous.

I agree about music. My god, it's awful. From 'Give It Up' to Saudi Sam Fender and his working-man schtick. Put bands on who follow United, at least, or read out some Cooper Clarke poetry, more birthday lists or even 'On This Day'. Anything!

The new stadium is probably long overdue but I can do without raging high ticket costs to facilitate crap I do not want or need.