Season Ticket Prices - 2021-2022

[F!RTHY]

Vale probably looking at just over 4500 sold ahead of today’s early bird deadline. Not too bad at all really. Seems the Junior Valiants offer has been successful as well which is important as partly due to Stokes time in the Premier League attracting younger fans has been something we have failed miserably at in the last ten years.

How does that compare to recent season’s - in L1 for example? Always thought Vale averaged around 4,500, and of course that includes away fans and home walk up. To reach that number in ST’s alone is fairly impressive.

Averaging 6,000+ next season, then?

 

[kieran_vale]

How does that compare to recent season’s - in L1 for example? Always thought Vale averaged around 4,500, and of course that includes away fans and home walk up. To reach that number in ST’s alone is fairly impressive.

Averaging 6,000+ next season, then?

Since the Shanahans took over we’ve been approximately 4000 which is the previous two seasons so that’s a good jump I think.

Prior to that under stormin Norm we were about 3500 from memory though it was heading in a downward trend as he continued to alienate pretty much everyone with his idiocy. Part of that is in a two club city where the other lot were in the Premier League that is hard to compete but when the then owner routinely thought nothing of insulting the community then it’s not hard to see why people weren’t willing to spend money.

Hopefully be around the 6000 mark, would imagine Tranmere, yourselves, Oldham and Walsall will help with their followings. That said the year we did sell 6500 ST’s by midway of that season barely half of them were actually turning up to games given how bad the team was then so some of it will be dependent on team performance as always.

 

[Andy Proctor]

We will probably get 8000 against tranmere then the Tuesday night game against carlise will be 4000. I'd say our average will be somewhere between 5000 to 5500 but depends on how we do which is normally shite and what away numbers come to vale which apart from a couple of clubs tends to be low numbers. It's good selling 4500 season tickets but it does mean that if you don't do well then you don't get many paying for individual games.

 

[valefan16]

We’ve sold about 4500 (me one of them as of yesterday!) prior to today’s final day sales so that’s pretty decent for us.

We’ve always recorded fans as those in attendance whereas some clubs do attendance based on tickets sold including STs so had that weird 2008/09 season where we sold more STs than our average attendance!

It’s hard to say how it was impact the season this year because you have the added caveat of not having been for 18 months so may well see a boost for most clubs of football starved fans returning or on the flip side some portions of fan bases may be nervous during the tail end of a pandemic of being in a crowd I guess.

We’ve sold well for Cobblers next week and apparently asked for the full allocation now and expect Tranmere to bring a big following for their first away day being localish so hoping for a bumper crowd for that one.

Season tickets are an oddity, I haven’t had one for a few seasons not being local and now having two little ones but had the ten game ticket or paid on the day but even if I only got 15-16 games it pays for itself and if we did roll back restriction wise and clubs were only allowed X or Y % then having a season ticket at least let’s me get access to games or half the games.

 

[kieran_vale]

One thing to note on our home attendances we only count those who actually just turn up to the games not include season ticket holders whether they are there or not. I know many other clubs tend to just include the season ticket holders in the attendance regardless such as Stoke who often announce crowds of 20000 when in reality barely 13000 are actually there.

 

[valefan16]

Finished on 4600 at the early bird deadline (when prices go up £50.00). Excellent effort.

 

[The Terminator]

We have nearly sold 4,000. Good numbers for us.

 

[Indian Dan]

After the absolute mess Power left the club in ST sales at the moment are only available to walk ups at the CG - selling 1 every 83 seconds the office has been open.

The stuff that went on last season is unbelievable.

Up to 2051 - all walk ups as the club’s credit rating was destroyed by Power making it difficult to offer monthly payments. This should be sorted any day now. Should get 4-5000 which would be decent enough. Don’t know if we’ll get near the 6000 target, though.

 

[E10rifle]

We have nearly sold 4,000. Good numbers for us.

Broken the 4K barrier now. Should average over 5,000 again this season, though away support numbers are going to be comparatively poor as the few local clubs are all tinpot.

 

[F!RTHY]

 

[Conker]

Cheap enough for people not to bother when ya playing rubbish again then! Fair play though.

 

[F!RTHY]

Cheap enough for people not to bother when ya playing rubbish again then! Fair play though.

‘playing rubbish again’ - Stag’s will know all about that, then.

As shit as we are, we still have 3,000 paying on the gate for each home game. If a couple of thousand ST holders decide to pick and choose their games, somehow I don’t think it makes much difference in the grande scheme of things.

 

[Conker]

‘playing rubbish again’ - Stag’s will know all about that, then.

As shit as we are, we still have 3,000 paying on the gate for each home game. If a couple of thousand ST holders decide to pick and choose their games, somehow I don’t think it makes much difference in the grande scheme of things.

Every team in this division will shag, it’s league two after all…..

Doubt it makes much difference, it’s just something that happens when you sell cheap tickets, we did it once years ago during our dark days and once things went tits up the price made it easier for certain folk to lob it in the bin.

 

[WilsdenBantam]

Right decision by the club, our prices are dirt cheap but regardless of what they are it’s hard to justify an increase after being so poor this season and the rise in cost of living going up.

 

[AdamStag]

‘playing rubbish again’ - Stag’s will know all about that, then.

As shit as we are, we still have 3,000 paying on the gate for each home game. If a couple of thousand ST holders decide to pick and choose their games, somehow I don’t think it makes much difference in the grande scheme of things.

chomp

 

[AdamStag]

Every team in this division will shag, it’s league two after all…..

Doubt it makes much difference, it’s just something that happens when you sell cheap tickets, we did it once years ago during our dark days and once things went tits up the price made it easier for certain folk to lob it in the bin.

Of course, you announce 16,500 when there’s 9,800 there or something. looks good for the stats.

We did try it once and i hope we don’t do it again.

However, in fairness to bradford the prices for tickets league 2 is a joke, we were fortunate enough to have £250 this season for fans that had a ST over covid, you can’t just go back to charging people £400 or so upfront.

 

[F!RTHY]

Of course, you announce 16,500 when there’s 9,800 there or something. looks good for the stats.

We did try it once and i hope we don’t do it again.

However, in fairness to bradford the prices for tickets league 2 is a joke, we were fortunate enough to have £250 this season for fans that had a ST over covid, you can’t just go back to charging people £400 or so upfront.

Interesting stance - so you believe there was less than 10,000 home fans in the ground for your visit the other week?