The cheapest day out at Town costs £31.70, according to this year’s BBC Price of Football survey which is published today.

The survey calculates a day out from the prices of the cheapest adult matchday ticket offered (at Town £23.50, a Grade C ticket bought on the day), a pie (£3.20), a cup of tea (£2) and a programme (£3), which total £31.70 at Portman Road this season.

Only six Championship clubs' cheapest day out cost more with the most expensive at Brighton at £34.70, while Derby is the cheapest at £18.

According to the survey, Town have the seventh highest-priced cheapest season ticket (£399) with the lowest at Charlton (£150) and the dearest at Norwich (£499.50).

The Blues have the second most expensive season ticket overall (£805 in two sold out sections either either side of the directors’ box and another section on the halfway line) behind Fulham (£839).

The corporate Block D seats costing £1,167 are not included in the survey this year unlike in previous seasons when they were billed as one of English football's most expensive tickets.

Town have the eighth highest-priced cheapest matchday ticket (£23.50) - the most reasonable are at Derby and Sheffield Wednesday (£10) - and the 10th lowest-priced most expensive ticket (£34.50, the cheapest-priced seat at a Grade A game). The most expensive in the division is at Fulham at £45.

The price of the programme (£3), pies (£3.20), tea (£2) and an adult shirt (£44.99) are all about average for the division. You can find more on the survey here and tables relating to prices in the UK and elsewhere here.

Earlier this week, Town announced a series of ticket promotions at games over the next month.

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blueboy1981 added 18:29 - Oct 15 ......... but then again the game itself has lost all sense of proportion - and aren't ordinary people being systematically priced out of everything ??
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shoopdelang added 19:40 - Oct 15 Tickets prices are out of hand. The FA seriously need to sit down and look at Germany and Spain. It's not the club or the league, this is simply a problem for the English FA.
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jas0999 added 20:05 - Oct 15 I'm a sason ticket holder but think match say tickets are very expensive. Almost unaffordable for a family of 4.
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TimmyH added 20:53 - Oct 15 Used to be known as the working man's game...that's laughable now - FIFA, UEFA and the FA have to take a fair share of the blame for this!
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StochesStotasBlewe added 20:55 - Oct 15 Blueboy, very well put. Football is being/has been taken away from it,s original support base, the working classes and become much more corporate. The massive influx of TV money & matches live on said channels means there is often no need to leave the armchair to get a football fix. Most bigger clubs, ours included are run by extremely wealthy individuals/companies who on the whole probably don,t have a grasp of how bloody hard it is for a lot of working folk to get by. Watch MOTD on Saturday night & see how many clubs properly fill their stadiums nowadays for run of the mill fixtures. Even Manchester City can,t fill the ground a fair bit of the time. I know the "good old days" of a few pints in Town before paying a fair price at ten to three on the turnstiles are but a distant memory, but our new fan base will continue to dwindle while the cost of football remains high. This is not just at ITFC but right across the professional game. As someone posted prophetically earlier, one day, FOOTBALL WILL EAT ITSELF.

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runningout added 21:37 - Oct 15 if we are still in the Championship next season, I dread to think of our attendances... If so, a complete overhaul of prices is needed to rescue any chance of getting near a half full house, let alone a full one..........
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thebeat added 21:40 - Oct 15 Its not just the prices, in trying to buy my Dad a ticket for Saturdays game today it wouldnt let me choose the seat i wanted as phones dont have adobe flash. So i phoned the ticket office to ask them if i cud buy it over the phone. I was told in no uncertain terms i wud have to wait until i had access to a computer or ipad. I then explained i was after a particular seat directly infront of my seat and that i was worried it wud sell before i had access to a computer which would be some 6 hours later. The tool in the ticket office then told me it wud be my own fault if it was sold as ive had weeks to buy it and shouldnt have left it until 3 days before the match. He didnt even care when i told him i only found out yesterday 100% that my Dad was coming to stay for the weekend so wanted a ticket. And then when i said its no surprise fans arent happy with prices of tickets and the system of buying them he gobbed off about how they never get complaints and i shud get used to it cus if i was going to the theatre etc i would have to buy online. I informed him this isnt the theatre mate, this is a football club, a so called family club, MY club that ive been giving my hard earned money to for 28 years now but he didnt give a s**t!! Honestly whats happening to our once great club? The attitude at the moment is a total disgrace!

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LWNR2013 added 21:49 - Oct 15 blueboy - too true, well said.
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Orraman added 22:08 - Oct 15 It seems that Norwich are dearer than Ipswich in most categories and I guess that Norfolk has the same economic situation as Suffolk and yet the budgies get 26000+ every home game! even when they dropped to League 1. This is something I cannot get my head round. Despite our tribal differences supporters of both clubs live in the same East Anglian environment so how come 10000 more turn up regularly at Carrow Rd to watch some of the sh*t they dish up

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StochesStotasBlewe added 22:14 - Oct 15 Orraman, unfortunately, they were a premier league club for the two previous seasons & although they have higher prices now, it wasn,t the case before then as budgie supporting mates were only to keen to point out. Will be interesting to see if their support holds up if this season doesn,t result in promotion though if their prices stayed the same.
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BlueandTruesince82 added 22:18 - Oct 15 The beat, next time take a name and write a letter of complaint. The club won't learn if you don't raise the issue. Thats appalling service so let the know.. write to milne and whats his face if you think it warrented. The first thing that needs to happen is a change at the top, Sepp Blatter needs to be removed so that the way the game is run from top to bottom can be addressed, football is indeed a wash with dosh. The amount of money means a shift in the balance of power that is currently much more even but continues to slip towards the side of players, as marketing and merch selling come to the fore players are more and more in demand and thus command higer and higer wages, transfer fees go up, prices go up. Clubs hands are to a certain extent tied and the prevention of owners from now acting as sugar daddies now means its even harder for smaller clubs to compete. It is beyond a wage cap, I dont think we will see it. We should but there are to many agents, sports management companies etc getting rich. There should be a scaled wage cap. Under 18 upto 2000k per week, 19 to 23 5k even that alone with a free for all afterwards would stop big vlubs signing up all the best young talent as there would be less incentive to move meaning that talent serves a longer apprenticeship developing as a player which is surely better for everyone?

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rolls_reuser added 22:48 - Oct 15 To all the comments about norwich getting 26000 in league 1, thats cos they had deals like if they brought tickets for the saturday game they got a free ticket for Plymouth on the tuesday night. england needs to take a leaf out of the germans book when it comes to running a football club. 20 quid for bayern and dortmund, 2 of the top teams in europe (going by champions league over the last few years) Championship games of football are worth £20 maximum

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62WasBest added 00:09 - Oct 16 Lightning Boy "FIFA don't help matters by refusing to introduce a worldwide wage cap" I don't think a wages cap is needed. What is required is for a cap on the number of players a club can have on their books. There should be a limit on those over, say, 18 and a limit on those under. This would, I think, stop the nonsensical loan system and spread the talent around more cheaply, as there would be fewer vacancies. This in turn would drive down wages making football economics more sane), which in turn would stop overseas journeymen finding it as attractive to play in England and Wales. This may improve lower league teams and bring more fans back - and it would probably stop some of the merry-go-round of player turnover at the end of each season which may help players and fans build a better rapport.

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brazil1982 added 12:40 - Oct 16 I don't generally buy food and drink at any match due to the price and of course, the quality which is generally poor - can't people go wiothout food for a couple of hours?!
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BerlinBlue added 12:54 - Oct 16 I've said it before on here, but I'll say it again. Going to a match at PR is daylight robbery. Why should I be forced to pay over 30 quid, like I did back in August, to see my team play? Football is a greedy industry which rips off those who contribute a lot to financing it, i.e us the fans. How can it be that some of the major European leagues offer many tickets for relative peanuts? I just bought a ticket to each of Hertha Berlin's next 3 home games and only paid around €70. I could have got them for as little as €50 in total if I were a member. It's not a nice feeling knowing that your own club doesn't think twice about "weeing" all over you. I know it's not the only reason, but they should look at the half-full PR each home game and take the hint.

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l12rdp added 15:39 - Oct 16 I think that every game should be treated the same as Blackburn is seen to be expensive game grade and Huddersfield lower grade we buy tickets same price all the time and not feel penalised just because a so called better team is at our home
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strikalite added 18:41 - Oct 16 First things first, Dortmund are £82m in debt. Second things second, our pies are bloody gorgeous and worth every penny. Third things third, just keep the soddin grade C match day prices FOR EVERY GAME and we're all happy. Thankyou.
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karls_dad added 19:12 - Oct 16 BlueandTruesince82 Hmmm i broke my back 6 years ago,, i will never work again, my condition worsens year on year! i will eventually be back in a chair! full of Morphine on a daily basis just to function! thats without all the rest of the meds, sadly the Shaws trust is never going to be able to help me, I,m on benefits for the rest of my life, 60 now! so i,m afraid towns prices will never allow me to be there! but i,m still a fan, ITFC is one of the only things in my life, if you only knew!

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blueboy1981 added 21:08 - Oct 16 ...... Lightningboy - I think I may have confused you. The 'were' was the 'word' missing from my previous to last post.
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Taricco_Fan added 22:34 - Oct 16 In the end this all boils down to loyal fans being asked to pick up the tab for astonishingly badly run clubs and over-paid players. The pursuit of the Premier League dream comes at a heavy price, one that is often ruinous in the long-term. As others have said, English football is well and truly eating itself.
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