Season Ticket pricing.

Taelee73 · Post by **Taelee73** » Yesterday, 14:15

Well, for me the first real misstep the club has made.

They have hiked the already high price of a ST for Bristows Bench, used watching women’s football at Plainmoor as an incentive to pay it, tried to force parents and kids to move from Bristows to the Family stand (people have sat in those seats or even from the stand before for years, they won’t want to move and the view from the Family Stand isn’t as good)

A massive mistake for me.

thebigp1 · Post by **thebigp1** » Yesterday, 14:21

I agree with you here. I think they've got this wrong. I usually go with my son (U14) and it feels like they are forcing children out of Bristows Bench. At £20 for an adult we were already high price for the league but £22 just feels too much for NLS. I get the club need the money but Plymouth weren't charging much more than that for Championship football.

numpte · Post by **numpte** » Yesterday, 14:24

Sustainably run by fans. No one is pocketing any profit here. The team on the pitch is paid for by the fans at the turnstile and you get what you pay for.

thebigp1 · Post by **thebigp1** » Yesterday, 14:58

numpte wrote: Yesterday, 14:24 Sustainably run by fans. No one is pocketing any profit here. The team on the pitch is paid for by the fans at the turnstile and you get what you pay for.

I'm sure that's the case but I'm struggling to make sense of it. If we had gone up fair enough but it starts to look really poor value for the level of football. These prices wouldn't be out of place for a football league club. How many fans who have come back to the club will now stay away?

Brewers boy · Post by **Brewers boy** » Yesterday, 15:00

numpte wrote: Yesterday, 14:24 Sustainably run by fans. No one is pocketing any profit here. The team on the pitch is paid for by the fans at the turnstile and you get what you pay for.

Yes. But it seems like I'm paying to watch women's football and I have zero interest in it.

It's a big jump 14% for me this season. We had a good team last season just missing out on promotion by a couple of goals/single point all based on an average gate of 2000 and including paying off £750,000 of debt.
If we had been promoted then I would understand more, but we are by far the dearest club in this league to watch.
I only hope that the increase doesn't put people off and crowds drop.

I'm all for the supermarket business model " Pile it high and sell it cheap"
ie cheap tickets and big crowds then make the extra money on beer, food programme's etc

Brewers boy · Post by **Brewers boy** » Yesterday, 15:07

Earlybird seated senior ticket in the mainstand at Burton Albion is £364. for league one football
Same senior ticket on Bristows £349 for Nat league sth

UnitedinDevon · Post by **UnitedinDevon** » Yesterday, 15:46

Individual Match Ticket Prices 2025/26
Individual Match Tickets 2025/26 Adult Concessions Under-18 Under-14* Under-8*
Bristow’s Bench £22 £20 £13 £12 £10
Family Stand £21 £19 £13 £8 £10
Popside £20 £18 £13 £8 £10
Away Terrace* £20 £18 £13 £8 £10

why are U8 tickets more expensive in 3 stands than U14s???

culmstockgull · Post by **culmstockgull** » Yesterday, 16:52

I was just wondering when the season tickets would come on line, I have done a comparision with a local division one club, our prices are more expensive which I believe is a step too far for the football we currently have on offer and a huge error by the board compunded by hounding out under 14's from bristow's who invariably sit with their families. If these people wanted to sit in the family stand they would have booked there in the first place.
Personally think the board needs to re think this,they stand the chance of alienating a considerable amount of fans and those with children are effectively being told where they can and cannot sit.

numpte · Post by **numpte** » Yesterday, 17:22

If we all want a succesful club then without a sugar daddy, we are all going to have to pay for it.

Comparisons to other clubs in other leagues needs to come with an explanation of any losses they incur and if they have a benefactor.

Season ticket in the bench, £16 a game. You get feck all for £16 these days so an afternoon out for that is pretty good id say.

If the increase is too much to stomach, dont go, but stop the moaning. You obviously havent been paying attention to chairmans chat amongst other things.

Taelee73 · Post by **Taelee73** » Yesterday, 18:20

It only works out at £16 per match if you go to every single home match, I generally can’t make four or five a season but if you don’t get a ST then you are paying a lot of money to watch NLS. It feels like they have targeted the very people who went all out last season and paid for a ST trusting in a the club that had just one player.

We’ve effectively paid off all our debts and bought in a squad that finished second on a budget half of the previous season, I believe they based it on gates of 2000? Wouldn’t basing the new budget on crowds of say 2500-3000 already give us an improved budget, even including the salaries of Young etc.

I have seen chairman’s chat, they made a point of saying they don’t want to solely be reliant on fans through the gate to pay for things, then they do this.

It feels the guise of getting kids into the Family stand for the purpose of giving them a targeted football experience is a bit of smoke and mirrors, and more like they want extra paying adults filling those spaces and cheaper fans filling the less popular Family stand.

We have some very high prices already and to put them up further is not a great move for me.

Without knowing all the ins and outs financially, maybe they are investing in too many new projects too quickly. I’m incredibly thankful they saved our club and have pushed on, however what happens if we get promoted next season, another hike?

Post by **Southampton Gull** » Yesterday, 19:18

Good God, dare to criticise the manager and you draw all the haters posting absolute pelters about how lucky we are to have him and the current owners but put up prices by a few quid and they're guilty of making huge mistakes.

Pay up and be grateful you can witness the journey.

Young Towser · Post by **Young Towser** » Yesterday, 20:16

Wasn’t expecting a rise in ST price tbh… disappointing to say the least

notnow · Post by **notnow** » Yesterday, 21:31

I don’t mind paying/investing more for the team, however, the extra cost is so the women’s team feel better and are rewarded, they will be requesting equal pay next. Sadly the pitch will suffer also. Zero interest in watching women play football. It’s all about inclusivity woke bs, and we got to pay for it. Sorry but it’s absolute bollocks.

gullno4 · Post by **gullno4** » Yesterday, 21:42

Whinge when we can’t afford to keep up with likes of Boreham Wood, whinge when we do something about it

Abbotgull · Post by **Abbotgull** » Yesterday, 22:06

Taelee73 wrote: Yesterday, 18:20
It feels the guise of getting kids into the Family stand for the purpose of giving them a targeted football experience is a bit of smoke and mirrors, and more like they want extra paying adults filling those spaces and cheaper fans filling the less popular Family stand.

It probably is, it's called maximising income. Like others have said if you are a fan owned club you are also inevitably a fan financed club, no sugar daddies, no dodgy payments from property developers keeping the club afloat as was the case under the last regime.
If you want the club to flourish then you have got to expect to have back it financially. We may have assembled a squad that finished runners up on budget based on attendances of 2000 but be honest that side was less than convincing in what was a poor quality league. Next season we need to guarantee promotion by winning the league and that is going to take a much better squad.

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