THE cost of following our favourite football teams is on the rise.
The heartbreaking truth is that a legion of loyal fans are being priced out of the stadium.
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In fact, some Premier League season tickets are on sale for more than £3,000 – the equivalent of £160 per home game.
And while that’s the upper-end of the spectrum, it’s a worrying trend for fans of elite English football.
Nevertheless, there are still some bargain tickets up for grabs – either single or season – if you know where to look.
So SunSport has run down every Premier League club’s cheapest and most expensive tickets, including a handy table below, according to data from Ticket Compare.
Let’s start with the good news… for just £26.50 you can head to Molineux to catch a glimpse of Wolves, with Brentford, Bournemouth and West Ham offering £30 single tickets.
Even Arsenal have some matchdays available for just £30.30.
However, the Gunners also offer the second-most-expensive single tickets, with some going for £141 – behind only Fulham‘s £160 offering.
Manchester United offer a unique take on single tickets – with every seat available for £66 following a recent price hike which led to a furious rant from club legend Paul Scholes, with fans slamming Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Co for “exploiting loyalty”.
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So while a trip to Old Trafford is the priciest cheap ticket, it’s also one of the more affordable options for the best seats in the house.
Everton, Chelsea and Fulham are the only other teams whose cheapest single ticket costs £50 or more.
Paul Scholes reacts to Man Utd ticket price hike
How can you ask Manchester United fans to pay more money with what is on the football pitch?
£66 for a ticket is ridiculous. If you think of Manchester, there are so many deprived areas.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe himself is from Failsworth, which is a deprived area.
If you take one kid with you, that is £120, if you take a family, you are looking at £300-400 – it is just not right.
Where do these owners get the front to put ticket prices up?
For the value – we’re probably having our worst ever Premier League season and they’ve got the cheek to put the prices up.
There is nothing positive happening with that football club. The team look bang average. They are not doing anything for fans.
If we have got Sir Jim Ratcliffe, compared to all these American owners, who has been a United fan since growing up in an area in Manchester – he is still hiking prices up.
It just shows that they don’t care.
On the flip side, Ipswich (£48) and Bournemouth (£49) are the only clubs whose most expensive one-off ticket costs less than a red note.
Fulham (£160), Arsenal (£141), Tottenham (£109) and West Ham (£105) prove that London clubs charge the most for the top-end day tickets.
But what about season ticket costs?
The Hammers actually have the most-affordable season ticket – available for a mere £345 – a delicious £18 per home game at the London Stadium.
Only Brentford (£494), Ipswich (£381), Leicester (£404), Man City (£425) and Southampton (£499) have offerings of under £500 for the full 19-game home schedule.
Incredibly, Arsenal’s CHEAPEST season ticket is the league’s costliest at a whopping £1,073 – more than three times as expensive as West Ham’s bargain offering.
At the other end of the scale, Fulham (£3,000+), Tottenham (£2,367) and Arsenal (£2,050.50) are miles ahead when it comes to the most-expensive options.
Worryingly, a total of NINE Premier League clubs charge over £1,000 for a top-end season ticket.
West Ham (£1,720), Leicester (£1,289), Newcastle (£1,163), Man City (£1,122), Man Utd (£1,057) and Chelsea (£1,015) are the other six.
What we know about the ‘new’ Old Trafford
MANCHESTER UNITED plan to build a new stadium rather than redevelop Old Trafford.
The decision was made after a number of fact-finding missions to other stadiums including the Bernabeu and Nou Camp.
The cost of the project is expected to be a staggering £2billion.
A capacity of 100,000 is expected.
It is felt that a club of United’s standing should have a new state-of-the-art facility.
The new stadium will be built on land adjacent to the Red Devils’ current home.
United are looking to not only build a stadium but regenerate the area of Trafford where the ground will stand.
There had been plans to KEEP Old Trafford rather than demolish it, and use it as a scaled down second venue.
However, it’s looking increasing likely that it will in fact be entirely demolished.
The club consulted with 30,000 fans about what to do and believe there is roughly a 50-50 split on staying or moving.
The club have appointed the architects Foster + Partners to come up with a “masterplan”. The company were behind Wembley Stadium.
Old Trafford has been United’s home since 1910.
The target is for completion by 2030.
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