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Town Increase Season Ticket Prices
Friday, 4th Mar 2016 09:41

Town have announced an increase in season ticket prices for the 2016/17 campaign, the third rise in three years.

If purchased before the early bird deadline of midday on April 11th, a lower tier seat going up from this year’s price of £411 to £417. Last year most prices rose by three per cent.

Overall, 97 per cent of season ticket holders will pay around 1.5 per cent more for their seats with fans in X Block, Y Block and D Block facing a larger increase.

As previously, any supporter purchasing a season ticket before the early bird deadline won’t pay any more for their seat if Town are promoted to the Premier League for the 2016/17 campaign, while season ticket holders will get a free Premier League season ticket for 2017/18 if the Blues have gone up by then and they are an Academy Friend - £10 per month - for both 2016/17 and 2017/18.

The Blues are again running their 12-month zero per cent interest direct debit payment scheme.

Meanwhile, Town have scrapped the grading of matchday tickets with adult prices set at £27.50 for lower tiers for all home league matches if tickets are purchased in advance.

The club are continuing with their under-11 season ticket priced at £10 for a ninth season, while season ticket holders are set benefit from a new link-up with local and national companies providing discounts on goods and services.

“Attracting youngsters to come to Portman Road and watch Ipswich Town play remains one of our priorities and we have seen an increase in both our Junior Blues membership and those under-11s and under-16s attending games,” Blues managing director Ian Milne told the club site.

“We are continually looking to increase our matchday activities for families in the Co-op Stand and the feedback from supporters for this initiative has been very positive.

“We have retained the £10 season ticket for under-11s and while there is a small increase for adult season tickets, in line with the retail price index, we feel at just over £18 a game, it represents a competitive price.

“We have listened to supporters who wanted us to simplify our matchday pricing and acted on that. We have been trialing one price this season and it will be implemented for 2016/17 with the price falling in line with what supporters have being paying this year.”

More details can be found on the club site here, while a full list of season ticket and matchday pricing can be found here.


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Slambo added 14:03 - Mar 4
Not massively impressed with the rise, but I think I can take the 6 quid hit. Didn't know my season ticket could get me discounts and deals with other businesses?! Great idea! What Ipswich really need to do is target the the 18-25 demographic. These are the ones who are really priced out and the ones who are more likely to generate an atmosphere. Most import group i'd say...

As for you loud minority that are looking for an excuse to abandon the club you apparently hold so dear, because you're not satisfied with the 'entertainment' on show, do it already. You bore me. Enjoy La Liga on your 80 quid a month Sky subscription and see you when we start winning again...
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menacinho added 14:06 - Mar 4
I don't think people are turning their back on the club by not renewing. Loyalty is a two way strret: in return for my money I expect to be entertained and for the club to show ambition. Neither is happening.

I will always love the club but I can no longer justify £1400 per year for my family to watch the dire fare currently on offer.
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Gooders7592 added 14:55 - Mar 4
I believe the club have missed a trick. If they lowered match day tickets to £20 a game, the attendance would rise. 18000 fans paying £27.50 or 24000+ paying £20 & more fans spending in the ground.
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Currie10 added 15:05 - Mar 4
Issue with that Gooders being for even the Preston game with £10 tickets we only got 21,000 in the ground. Infact if you compare the C games attenance with B / A this season, price has had very little impact on attendance whatsoever. We got 20,000 vs Wendy start of the season when playing well, at £27.50 a game with the feel good factor around.

So the scrapping of the A B C sounds good in theory - wonder why the club have come to that decision? Oh yes, because we have MORE C games a season at present than A so the club can get even more £££ out of people. Very slick clever operation.

The hilarious thing about scrapping this, being next season appears ( if we don't go up ) Norwich / Villa and maybe Newcastle are coming down - when we'd shift a bucket load of tickets even at cat A. You cannot make it up at times how idiotic the people are at the top who come up with these absolutely pathetic ideas.

Whether we like them up the road, full house every week irrespective of league. Their marketing guy 20 years ago had a brain selling season tickets to families and getting people hooked.

Huddersfield are selling 10,000 season tickets at under £200 to people - hats off to them. We're a bloody embarrassment. Glad I live in Bristol and pretty much only attend away games, awful.
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Count_Arthur added 15:24 - Mar 4
Agree 100% with TractorboyJim on page 1

The revenue this will raise is negligible, all people will see is "Prices Increase" and make a decisions on whether the season ticket is worth it based on this.

If they had bit the bullet and said "Price Freeze" then they could have used that as positive PR.

But like a friend of mine said, the decision to increase the price was probably made by ME's board of accountants who get a pay rise every year. Not all of us have that luxury.
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paulcooperisgod added 15:29 - Mar 4
Ipswich_crazy 2011 the umpteen negative likes says it all..... I'm not the only one #fool
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jas0999 added 17:48 - Mar 4
Elton. Wrong. I wouldn't. Because Evans wouldn't spend that money. I think you also missed the point of my original post. I don't care about balancing the books. I'm interested in entertainment and quality if signings.
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norfsufblue added 18:01 - Mar 4
I like the fact you could MAYBE get a FREE Premier League season ticket if you PAY £240!!
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jas0999 added 18:02 - Mar 4
Essexboy - I agree with you to a certain extent, but as I posted last season I'm lucky enough to have a young family and affording the season ticket + travel etc was a struggle. It may just be £43 a month to some, but for me I spend £1500 a year total to attend home games. I did it and found the money to support the club. I've been rewarded with some truly shocking football and low quality signings. Whatever Elto thinks I have never stated I want us to spend a million on a player. But certainly more ambition than Coke, Digby, Toure, Foley etc. The reality is I find it more and more difficult to justify spending out and this latest increase, albeit small is the final nail for me. I simply can't justify the spend for what's on offer. I'll attend games, but only when I can afford it.
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blues1 added 18:16 - Mar 4
I agree with everyone that increasing the price considering the lack of entertainment seems ridiculous. But to those saying this increase means they can't afford to renew? Rubbish. A lower tier season ticket will cost an extra 11p a week. Can't even buy a chocolate bar for that. Do think the match day prices could have been better. Tho £27.50 isn't extortionate, ivecpaid more away this season I think that should prob have been the price wherever you sit.
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blueboy1981 added 18:34 - Mar 4
Quite simply the Club is taking the p*ss - and proving once again that they really could not care about the Supporters.

Of course, some would pay whatever, and accept whatever - I've said enough about the likes of, many times, and won't revisit - the rest of us will see this as a truly NEGATIVE move by the Club, and react accordingly.

At this rate the Club is on a collision course, and will find it's level - and that being in the Premiership is nothing more than a very long distant wish for some of us - under the current regime.
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Lukeybluey added 18:52 - Mar 4
I haven't been to a town game at all this season simply because it's too expensive, and it doesn't look like that's going to change in the future. And I cannot warrant paying that sort of money each Saturday or Tuesday, for something I could fall asleep at. I'll stick to the local and keep watching AFC Sudbury I think.
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HackneyBlue added 19:10 - Mar 4
Bad move,very poor entertainment,32 years season ticket holder-IM OUT
My ticket is £417 ,i believe sales can only go down,say by 200 which would be a loss of £417 x 200 = £83400,the increase should everyone renew which they wont is 12,000 x £6 which = £72,000.I plus many of friends are not renewing and its not the increase its the crap i watch so i have a feeling could be at least 500.= £208500.
Sad times
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HackneyBlue added 19:10 - Mar 4
Bad move,very poor entertainment,32 years season ticket holder-IM OUT
My ticket is £417 ,i believe sales can only go down,say by 200 which would be a loss of £417 x 200 = £83400,the increase should everyone renew which they wont is 12,000 x £6 which = £72,000.I plus many of friends are not renewing and its not the increase its the crap i watch so i have a feeling could be at least 500.= £208500.
Sad times
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runningout added 19:58 - Mar 4
this is the straw slowly breaking our great clubs back. Sad mascot fees, humiliating shows in winnable games. Should I be shocked...Disgusted
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Elto added 20:10 - Mar 4
OK jas, I agree you have not specified one million. Apologies for that.

I understand it is difficult to justify the expense when you have a young family, I stopped going completely when my children were young.

I think you missed my point too. I don't think it's a good idea for the club to get further in debt. What happens when the Evan's era ends? Which it will at some point. Bolton are hanging on to their very existence by their fingernails. I don't want us to get to that point. Your comment 'I don't care about balancing the books' is exactly what I'm talking about, short term, I want it now stuff.

Of course I want entertainment and I want it now but I'm trying to be patient. Not a lot else I can do anyway. Except walk away, I'm nowhere near that yet. Despite everything I read here I'm certain things are not as bad as they were in the Keane/Jewell era.


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blueboy1981 added 20:33 - Mar 4
........ people keep on about the Club's debt, which apparently keeps increasing - we have an owner who has (published today) increased his wealth to £760 million over the past year.

The Club's debt is 'owed' to the owner apparently, and exclusively - with this wealth, why wouldn't an ambitious owner eliminate 'the Club's debt' and push on for promotion to the 'promised land' ?? - where we know the kind of riches to be had, once there.Payback in a very short space of time ....... Yes ??

If this doesn't happen, and the debt continues to rise - my interpretation is that he is progressively making it TOTALLY impossible for the Club to ever be attractive to any prospective buyer / owner in the future.

Personally, I think Marcus Evans has this Club well and truly snookered, all in all.

Someone, with more of an Accountants brain than I, tell me that I am WRONG. Please ...... !!!

For the sake of us ALL.
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thebeat added 20:36 - Mar 4
So the product on offer deteriorates in quality continually and we are expected to pay more for it?
All the hype around ticket prices in this country at the moment and the club are basically sticking two fingers up at the loyal supporters.
Im done. End of
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BanksterDebtSlave added 21:02 - Mar 4
It's all "Bread and Circuses"......only the bread is pretty stale and the show is pretty poor too. The whole football financial model (the wider one too for that matter) is a busted flush! We ask for millions to be spent on players while many of us earn about £10 an hour so need tickets priced accordingly. It's cognitive dissonance (holding two opposing views at the same time) and the world is full of it. Madness. Oh for the days of full stadiums, standing and NOISE at a price that a working (or not) person could afford. Pitchforks at the ready! Viva St. Pauli
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essex57 added 21:02 - Mar 4
Ipswich crazy spot on they will be queuing up to get half price season tickets as soon as they come on sale if we are doing well next season
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blueboy1981 added 21:15 - Mar 4
essex57 ......... and so what ? - if the product is what you expect it to be, you buy it.

If not, only a fool would do anything other than leave it on the shelf.

You're full of garbage, and if's, but's and maybe's. Get a grip.
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blueboy1981 added 21:27 - Mar 4
.......... and doesn't even agree, that to win you need to get shots on target..... !!!!!!!!! Enough said.
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itfcgadgetboy added 21:54 - Mar 4
Well, that's it for me and the missus. Not renewing.

Season ticket holders for 22 years. 300mile round trip for home games where we can't get to non weekend games (8 home games I believe so far this season with the night games, moves for tv and the fa cup).

There isn't even the benefit of the early bird scheme for ST holders now (same last year) as joe public can also get the early bird option for the same price.

We will now become casual fans who go to the odd game when and if we fancy. I'm not sure why I feel so let down by my family club. I'm sure I will get told 'good riddance' on here, but hey. Just wanna have my say.
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LordMamu added 22:10 - Mar 4
Essex57 - explain why you marked me down and let's have a little debate on a genuinely intellectual basis and let's see where it goes eh?
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Benters added 05:52 - Mar 5
Season tickets are good value for money around £18 per game, its sticking all the games to a band B price which is a piss take.
I reckon this season if the town doesnt make the playoffs we will see a downturn in attendance next season .
£30 on the gate for a tuesday night game really ffs !?
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