- One of the league’s ‘Big Six’ will raise season ticket costs, a report claims
- That’s despite fans banding together to demand a freeze on season ticket prices
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One of the Premier League’s regular title contenders will reportedly raise their ticket season prices next campaign.
The move is sure to spark fury among fans in a footballing climate which is becoming increasingly costly for average matchgoing fans.
It comes just a week after the Football Supporters’ Association wrote to the Premier League urging bosses to enact a vision-wide season ticket price freeze.
Arsenal are the club who plan to raise their season ticket fare, according to the Daily Mirror.
That’s despite them already having the most expensive price in Europe – their cheapest is £1,073, a 10 per cent increase from last season. That at least includes six cup matches, meaning each game costs £42.
The Gunners are set to announce an inflationary price hike of 3.7 per cent, the Mirror says, even though clubs such as Liverpool have decided to freeze theirs.
Arsenal are reportedly planning to raise their season ticket prices by 3.7 per cent for 2025-26
Rivals such as Liverpool have frozen their season and general admission prices for 2025-26
Manchester United infuriated supporters earlier this campaign by bumping up regular fares
Last season Arsenal proposed scrapping senior concessions, but after meeting the Arsenal Supporters’ Trust, they ditched the plan.
An AST spokesman said: ‘The club have increased the number of concessions for children and adults in recent years and introduced a young adults category.
‘Last year Arsenal proposed to remove all senior concessions. Following feedback, they chose not to. It shows good dialogue. If clubs aren’t doing that, they should.’
Of course, football is a balancing act and clubs would argue that raising prices allows them to invest more in players – something fans often demand.
But it marks a concerning trend for long-serving matchgoers, with Crystal Palace being the only club who did not raise prices for this campaign.
West Ham and Brentford plan to join Liverpool in keeping their season ticket costs the same.
Earlier this season, Manchester United infuriated fans by setting ticket prices at £66 and abolishing concessions.
Prices had started at £40 for adults and £25 for children but tickets were bumped up to be charged at the highest category, A (at least £66), regardless of their location in Old Trafford.
The Manchester United Supporters’ Trust hit out at the club for providing ‘zero consultation’ over the staggering hike and claimed they were being asked to pay for the mistakes of majority owners the Glazer family in an ‘offensive’ act.
