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The Premier League season ticket table 2012/13

Simon Ward
by Lovemoney Staff Simon Ward on 08 June 2012  |  Comments 15 comments

Fans at nearly half the clubs in the English Premier League won't be paying any more for their season tickets next season. Find out who's freezing their prices and who tops the cost table.

The Premier League season ticket table 2012/13

The football season has only been over for a matter of weeks, but clubs have already confirmed season ticket prices for the 2012/13 season.

And with the UK in recession, exactly half of next season’s English Premier League clubs have announced season ticket prices below or in line with the current rate of inflation.

Six of those clubs have gone further and frozen season ticket prices across the board, although QPR fans faced a massive 40% increase in season ticket prices after they won promotion two seasons ago.

Big clubs freeze their prices

Fan disgruntlement at ticket prices seems to have finally filtered through to the boardroom at the bigger clubs, with Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal all freezing their prices.

But the bravest club has to be West Brom, which has cut season ticket prices by 11.3% in a bid to attract more younger fans and families. The average attendance at the Hawthorns last season was around 2,000 under the ground’s capacity, so the club will be hoping this pays off.

Here’s the league table of English Premier League clubs’ season ticket prices, from cheapest to most expensive. The range of ticket prices spans ‘early bird’ deals for people renewing a season ticket to the most expensive prices for new season tickets.

Club

Adult season ticket price range 2012/13

% change in price of tickets compared to 2011/12

Cost per Premier League game of cheapest season ticket

Cost per Premier League game of most expensive season ticket

Wigan Athletic

£255-£350

2%

£13.40

£18.40

Manchester City

£275-£745

9%

£14.50

£39.20

Aston Villa

£295-£595

0%-3%

£15.50

£31.30

West Bromwich Albion

£349-£449

-11.3%

£18.40

£23.60

Newcastle United

£373-£717

5%

£19.60

£37.70

Reading

£375-£595

0-33%

£19.70

£31.30

Stoke City

£399-£599

0%

£21

£31.50

Everton

£399-£672

3%

£21

£35.40

Fulham

£399-£959

2.1%-18.5%

£21

£50.47

Sunderland

£425-£525

5%

£22.40

£27.60

Swansea City

£449-£499

10.4%

£23.60

£26.30

Southampton

£495-£975

30%-64%

£26

£51.30

Queens Park Rangers

£499-£949

0%

£26.30

£49.90

Manchester United

£532-£950

0%

£28

£50

Norwich City

£547-£608

11%

£28.80

£32

Chelsea

£595-£1,250

0%

£31.30

£65.80

West Ham United

£600-£850

16.6%

£31.60

£44.70

Liverpool

£725-£780

0%

£38.20

£41

Tottenham Hotspur

£730-£1,845

3.6%-5.79%

£38.40

£97.10

Arsenal*

£985-£1,955

0%

£51.80

£102.90

*includes seven cup matches

Spreading the cost of season tickets

Some clubs offer interest-free instalment plans for season tickets via a company called Zebra Finance.

Another alternative for spreading the cost is a 0% purchase credit card - the NatWest Your Points World MasterCard allows you to spread your repayments over 18 months. Alternatively, the Halifax All In One MasterCard offers an interest-free period of 15 months. You'll need a good credit score to be able to get hold of either of these.

Don't be tempted into taking out a payday loan to pay for your season ticket. These are short-term loans and aren't suitable for a bigger purchase like this. If you don't have the money to pay the loan back at the end of the month, the interest and charges will quickly add up and leave you facing a much larger amount to repay.

The value for money table

Manchester City made it a double last season, scooping both the Premier League title and topping the ING Direct Value table. This table compares a club's season ticket cost with both the number of points earned and the number of goals scored

Wigan came in second, with West Bromwich Albion third. QPR came bottom, with Liverpool and Wolves also down in 19th and 18th place respectively.

Have your say

Will you be renewing your season ticket? Is football too expensive? Share your thoughts in the Comments box below.

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Comments (15)

  • bowler900
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    bowler900 said

    Don't forget that there has been an increase in VAT since last season so even clubs like Villa, Wigan and Spurs have all but frozen pre-VAT prices and Arsenal, Liverpool QPR, Man U and Chelsea have reduced theirs.

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  • gazzafc
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    gazzafc said

    Not sure with regard to the accuracy of the season ticket pricing as my season ticket at Arsenal costs in excess of £3,000!

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  • yocoxy
    Love rating 132
    yocoxy said

    Looks like Southampton are maximising their revenue from their (likely) one season in the Prem..

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  • fenemore
    Love rating 205
    fenemore said

    My interest in football is less than would fit on the head of a pin.

    That people are prepared to pay ridiculous sums that end up in the pockets of arogant ego-inflated footballers is madness. Just what do they do that justifies this can be summed up in a few words - "they kick a ball". In what parallel universe is that of any value to humanity?

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  • Simon Ward
    Love rating 5
    Simon Ward said

    gazzafc, not sure what season ticket you've got - for £158 a game hopefully one that includes a lot of extras. Hospitality tickets aren't included in our figures.

    yocoxy - Southampton only have a handful of £975 seats on sale. As a Saints fan, I think the pricing is on the high side but the demand will be there. And that's why the prices are as they are across the board. Go down the leagues and it's a much different story.

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  • John Fitzsimons
    Love rating 30
    John Fitzsimons said

    I don't think any sport does too well out of breaking it down to a simple explanation like that fenemore.

    Usain Bolt runs fast. Tiger Woods can hit a little ball into a hole in fewer shots than most other people. Sebastien Vettel can drive a fast car really rather fast indeed.

    None of these offer any 'value to humanity' in and of themselves. But sport can inspire, it can move people, it can tell stories.

    That's not excusing the fact that Premier League clubs charge mental amounts to watch the games, mind you

    John

    Editor

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  • Coastguardscottage
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    Coastguardscottage said

    check out http://www.championshiptalk.com/fan-focus-series-npower-championship-season-ticket-prices-1475 £582 to watch the beautiful game at Leeds :-D ouch, and I have lots of mates with them.

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  • RMN05
    Love rating 11
    RMN05 said

    Just goes to emphasise the real derivation of "fan" - fanatical ! How I appreciate not having fallen into the habit of becoming a sports enthusiast.

    Most of the lower ends of the ranges would enable the wife and I to rent one of our favourite holiday cottages for a week, and still have change, so not difficult to decide where to spend our money that would provide a benefit to both of us. Can't imagine the tensions created in some households, when hard earned family incomes are frittered on such inconsequentials as season ticket outlays to benefit one partner only.

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  • fenemore
    Love rating 205
    fenemore said

    You are of course quite right John - I just get angry at the inequalities of life. A professional sports person can command obscene salaries for what seems a trifling ability - yet, for example, a medical surgeon has skills far and away beyond anything a sports person has or will ever have - but he or she will only ever earn a fraction of those amounts. This applies to a whole raft of occupations society undervalues, and on which we all depend - but whoever said "life was fair"?

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  • TBoneBod
    Love rating 12
    TBoneBod said

    I'm with Fenemore. And I was going to quote the very same analogy. I was speaking with a surgeon recently; he gets to work at 07.30 performs three operations, minimum, checks previous patients does the usual paperwork, phone calls etc. and usually gets away at 20.30. For this he receives around £180,000 pa. This is, of course, after 6 years of medical school and then climbing the ladder to get where he is today...

    Or, he could have been a football player - from the age of eighteen and be "earning" £150,000 + PER WEEK! Where did it all go wrong...?

    What really gets me though, is that whenever we buy something - that is on the back of the players shirt - we are, indirectly, paying their salary...! And it's difficult for me to know what NOT to buy, because I don't know who sponsors who!

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  • electricblue
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    electricblue said

    I totally agree with fenemore - and anyone who agrees with the absurd value placed on the brainless sport of football immediately disqualify yourself from any comments regarding bankers or company bosses as your sanity is questionable. Being entirely factual here, motor sport does have massive value for society in that it has been responsible for many of the innovations which have made modern motoring as safe and efficient as it is. Sports which involve extreme technology as well as skill can have wider benefits.

    Beckham's endorsements of after-shave, razors and marker pens(!!!) just about sums it up.

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  • mac-101@tiscali.co.uk
    Love rating 4
    mac-101@tiscali.co.uk said

    Typical mis-information!

    You admit that the Arsenal season ticket includes 7 cup matches but yet you don't take them into consideration in your chart!

    Cost of season ticket = £985 (which mine does)

    If you divide that between 19 league games as you have it comes to £51.80

    But that isn't a true reflection is it! You even point out that the price includes 7 extra games. These aren't free, it is simply a case of the season ticket being for 26 games, and therefore the price per game figure should be £37.90!

    Quite clearly cheaper than Liverpool or Tottenham!

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  • Simon Ward
    Love rating 5
    Simon Ward said

    mac-101, I take your point to a small extent but if Arsenal deem the seven additional matches on the season ticket are only valid for FA or League cup matches you're paying to watch the reserves, on past form.

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  • jamiecfc1
    Love rating 39
    jamiecfc1 said

    What happens if there aren't 7 additional cup matches, or if they're all away games in the Arsenal case? Very bold move by WBA and I hope for them it pays off, good to see a club recognising we don't all have money to burn. Seems common practice for all promoted clubs to jack up their prices just in case they drop back through the trap door - seem to recall Watford hiked theirs up significantly a few years back, don't think they managed to sell all their tickets though. Plus they did drop straight back down again...

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  • hopefultom
    Love rating 43
    hopefultom said

    @jamiecfc1

    I was at Wembley, about 12 years ago when Watford beat my team ( Bolton ) in the play-off final to win promotion to the premier league.

    Watford were, by far the better team, on the day and we waited, after the final whistle for Graham Taylor & his team to come to our end so that we could show our appreciation, but they, in their arrogance, coudn't be bothered.

    What goes round........!

    Sorry to go off topic.

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