| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... 15:34 - Aug 21 with 3422 views | tommcd |
Home tickets for Brighton v Ipswich have been at 'General Sale' level for 3 or 4 weeks already, there's not a single 'home' seat-block sold out, with around 250 tickets still available throughout the ground.
Where most Premier League clubs have Season Ticket waiting lists, and mostly sell out before general sale, why are Brighton so bad?
Maybe the consequence of 7 seasons of Premier League mediocracy with no real threat of relegation or realistic aspirations European Football, possibly combined with the relative ease-of-access to London teams? |  | | |  |
| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 15:37 - Aug 21 with 3342 views | DarkBrandon |
Maybe it is the opposition? |  | | |
| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 15:38 - Aug 21 with 3323 views | ITFC_Forever |
Brighton rarely sell out unless they are playing one of the big six or Palace. |  |
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| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 15:38 - Aug 21 with 3324 views | BrianTablet |
tempting, isn't it? |  |
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| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 15:51 - Aug 21 with 3177 views | Bobbychase |
Watching various highlights from the Amex down the years it looks like some teams get more away tickets than others. Could we have a chance of that? |  |
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| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 15:53 - Aug 21 with 3151 views | BlueOura |
Don't know, but they played in Europe last season so I doubt it's the mediocracy theory. |  | | |
| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 16:00 - Aug 21 with 3047 views | homer_123 |
I could be wrong but they have never really been the 'most' supported team locally?
Not sure they regularly sell out? |  |
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| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 16:05 - Aug 21 with 2989 views | itfcjoe |
20 years ago they were getting 4-5k fans so guess sustaining a big fan base will take another generation |  |
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| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 16:10 - Aug 21 with 2931 views | Horsham |
People should help them out a little with that. I know I have. |  | | |
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| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 16:31 - Aug 21 with 2734 views | tomo |
| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 16:10 - Aug 21 by Horsham |
People should help them out a little with that. I know I have. |
Same, will find out tomorrow whether I need it or not. |  | | |
| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 16:40 - Aug 21 with 2646 views | Europablue |
It just goes to show that you can't build a fan base from nothing. Our success only meant that we reached our potential attendances rather than creating an instant fanbase.
I'm only an Ipswich fan because of my Dad, and I would assume that there are a lot of supporters like me. If people in Brighton supported bigger clubs then they are unlikely to switch allegiances. Maybe Brighton is not that much of a football town. |  | | |
| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 17:51 - Aug 21 with 2236 views | tommcd |
Looking at it some more, the grounds where ticket demand massively outweighs supply are mostly older grounds that have been expanded over the years to keep up. So Brighton's position is maybe as simple as moving into a purpose built new stadium that's been correctly sized to meet demand plus some headroom for expanding the fanbase.
Since moving into the AMEX crowds have steadily increased to the point where average attendances over the past 3 seasons are near-capacity for all matches, so it seems like they sell-out most matches eventually. Decent position to be in really, where everyone that wants a ticket can get one, and your matchday attendences are near capacity, good planning / design could be argued, it just sticks out because ticket supply matching or exceeding the demand for them is rare in this League. | | | |
| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 18:23 - Aug 21 with 2081 views | Alberto_the_frog |
| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 17:51 - Aug 21 by tommcd |
Looking at it some more, the grounds where ticket demand massively outweighs supply are mostly older grounds that have been expanded over the years to keep up. So Brighton's position is maybe as simple as moving into a purpose built new stadium that's been correctly sized to meet demand plus some headroom for expanding the fanbase.
Since moving into the AMEX crowds have steadily increased to the point where average attendances over the past 3 seasons are near-capacity for all matches, so it seems like they sell-out most matches eventually. Decent position to be in really, where everyone that wants a ticket can get one, and your matchday attendences are near capacity, good planning / design could be argued, it just sticks out because ticket supply matching or exceeding the demand for them is rare in this League. |
It started out as a smaller stadium designed to be easily expanded when required. |  | | |
| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 19:16 - Aug 21 with 1902 views | Radlett_blue |
| Surprised to see how poorly Brighton's Home tickets are selling... on 17:51 - Aug 21 by tommcd |
Looking at it some more, the grounds where ticket demand massively outweighs supply are mostly older grounds that have been expanded over the years to keep up. So Brighton's position is maybe as simple as moving into a purpose built new stadium that's been correctly sized to meet demand plus some headroom for expanding the fanbase.
Since moving into the AMEX crowds have steadily increased to the point where average attendances over the past 3 seasons are near-capacity for all matches, so it seems like they sell-out most matches eventually. Decent position to be in really, where everyone that wants a ticket can get one, and your matchday attendences are near capacity, good planning / design could be argued, it just sticks out because ticket supply matching or exceeding the demand for them is rare in this League. |
The figures you see will be seats sold of course, not the people in the ground. Like Arsenal, plenty of season ticket holders don't get to anywhere near all the home league games. Doesn't matter financially to the club, of course. |  |
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