*season ticket covers the 19 Premier League home matches plus a further seven cup credits (eligible for FA Cup or European competitions), so 26 matches in total
Findings:
- The cheapest season ticket in London is Fulham, which is £586 cheaper than Arsenal’s least expensive, which is a 147% increase.
- Arsenal have the most expensive season ticket but, because of the cup games it includes, works out at £75 per game. Whilst Spurs’ most expensive season is less expensive, it only includes league games, so works out at a much more expensive £97 per game. Chelsea’s most expensive season ticket works out at £66 per game.
- The most you will pay for a West Ham season ticket is £850, which works out at £45 per game, which is the lowest top price of all the clubs in London.
- Whilst Fulham’s cheapest season ticket is less than any of the other London clubs, their top priced season ticket is more expensive than QPR and West Ham.
- There’s a difference of £100 between Arsenal’s cheapest and most expensive match day ticket. It’s hard to believe the match day experience from one seat is worth £100 more than any other seat in the ground. There’s a difference of £55 at Fulham, £49 at Tottenham, £46 at Chelsea, £31 at West Ham and £30 at QPR.
- For a pie, programme and a cuppa, it costs you £9.30 at Fulham, £9.20 at Spurs, £8.60 at Chelsea, £8.50 at West Ham, £8.30 at Arsenal and £8 at QPR. There’s a 16% difference in price between the cheapest and most expensive between the ground.
You assume Arsenal will have 7 home cup matches. Also when you consider that their Carling Cup games are often sold at £10-£15 a ticket, that increases the average price of the other games on their ST.
Interesting analysis and pleased to see that the myth of Arsenal being the most expensive is blown away by this. On a per game basis it’s now clear that it is not.
Not saying that it’s cheap either mind you. But the press have often used the “most expensive” stick to beat us up together with “and not won a trophy for x number of years” to show the apparent lack of value.
Given 14 years unbroken of ECL football I’d say that the value proposition is actually quite strong when compared to others such as Spurs. Chelsea is certainly appearing to be “best value” but gate receipts matter little to them when owner can come forward with the money any time he wants to shore up operating losses and high wages.
Whilst I’m aware there is a bit of a myth about Arsenal’s prices – and they’re not as expensive as people make out, please read my below response. The stats on Spurs are incorrect and give an incorrect impression.
I can only speak from a Tottenham point of view, but a standard Tottenham season ticket includes two home cup ties as well. Where did you get your research results from? Also, Tottenham’s most expensive season ticket includes all home league games, and all home AND away domestic cup ties, plus all European home cup ties should we qualify in that year. As well as this, it magically includes an away season ticket too.
I just used google.
Tottenham have also recently changed their food and pricing, so that stat is also incorrect.
I’m not sure quite what you’re trying to prove with this chart. So, I’d imagine, it is likely you could have got stats from others clubs pretty wrong, too.
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