All ticket/travel information thread - 2024/25 edition - Ticket Purchasing FAQ in OP. Please read it and be careful purchasing tickets

pocco said:
My old man was saying he thinks the club and many other clubs will look to do away with season tickets all together in the near future. When you look at the difference that standard tickets are costing then it does feel like STs are a sitting duck for the club right now. It does feel like there’s something in the pipeline.
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They still need that guaranteed lump sum from ST holders every May to make the business work - it's essentially our transfer kitty for the summer

They might try to reduce ST numbers when we move to a new stadium but they won't do away with them completely
 
Rood said:
They still need that guaranteed lump sum from ST holders every May to make the business work - it's essentially our transfer kitty for the summer

They might try to reduce ST numbers when we move to a new stadium but they won't do away with them completely
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How much is the lump sum? Around 50k season tickets at circa £1k each, so £50m? It is a decent fee, but when you see the discrepancy in prices it makes me think that either the ST prices will increase a lot, or they may try to become less reliant on that lump sum and cash in over the season instead. That £50m would probably double if they could sell them at the new prices. I don't know, it just feels inevitable now that something has to give eventually.

Or, of course, they're 'protecting' the ST holders out of loyalty and offsetting the cost on regular tickets? Unlikely, I know.
 
Devil_forever said:
It wouldn't be a case of us not winning the league, it'll be a case of us potentially going under. I don't think people realise just how dire our financial outlook has been for years now. We don't have a sugar daddy to sustain that and PSR now prevents it. City and Chelsea won the lottery that they were a sugar daddy's play thing before these rules came into play.

You may not mind us not spending but just take a look at the transfer forum, after us having signed Cunha on the first day of the window, people are already moaning about not having wrapped up Mbuemo. You think this fan base would tolerate it? No chance.
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Yeah 100%, that extra £9.5m the club will make across the season charging 17,000 people £80 a match instead of £50 a match is what will keep the club afloat.
 
Could do with someone convincing Ineos about the long term gains from having a vocal, intimidating atmosphere at home matches. In the long run should reap more rewards from that than charging crazy amounts for tickets.
 
Looks like transfers to One United Members will remain at the discounted ST rate.

 
hp88 said:
Looks like transfers to One United Members will remain at the discounted ST rate.

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The result of the pricing model for this season means that the average cost of a general admission match ticket (season tickets and match by match members tickets) will be £46.51 vs £41.41 for the 2024/25 campaign.
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Less than 1% of tickets will be priced at highest Cat A price point of £97.
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This is in stark contrast to the narrative a lot of people were trying to paint about the ticket prices. People were claiming that the cheapest ticket price for Burnley was £70 on twitter iirc. It sounded like BS and it turns out it was BS. Pretty much every other club has had match categorisation for years now.
 
Norris Cole said:
Could do with someone convincing Ineos about the long term gains from having a vocal, intimidating atmosphere at home matches. In the long run should reap more rewards from that than charging crazy amounts for tickets.
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Forza short termism.
Devil_forever said:
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This is in stark contrast to the narrative a lot of people were trying to paint about the ticket prices. People were claiming that the cheapest ticket price for Burnley was £70 on twitter iirc. It sounded like BS and it turns out it was BS. Pretty much every other club has had match categorisation for years now.
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Why is this becoming a defence of the club's decision? Other fans are being ripped off so it's ok we do it to ours?

Eleven league fixtures have been tagged category B, priced between £57 and £86. That's a £16 increase for the majority of games. That's an extra £171 for members to watch us play other mid table aides.
It's "only" going to be an additional extra £7 for individual games against the other big 6. But will be interesting how many of those ordinary tickets are repackaged for hospitality. Overall gonna be well over £200 extra for members to attend even 10-12 games next season.

This is all outrageous.The club was preaching before the Europa games about how important the fans were. That, as expected, is just bs.

These are the end times of football, even being remotely affordable now for me, my mates and most of my family. 60/70 years my family have been attending OT. My parents met in K Stand in the mid 70s. They've had season tickets there since the 80s.

All those people who attend week in, week out. Have put up with all sorts of nonsense for decades are pushed aside because the club is skint having decided that spending the best part of what 400 million combined on Antony, Sancho, Holijlund, Onana, Mount etc was a good business plan and we need to recoup 0.5% of that by shafting loyal fans.
 
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Crystal Palace Free.

Devil81 said:
Season ticket holders, if you have any single for games feel free to direct message me on here and I will have them off you. I'm not buying direct from the club as they have totally taken the p!55.

I've bought off several people off here before.
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With no European football, it means less games but more importantly, Saturday football. I think (unless we implode in first half a dozen games), there will be far less pass ons.

I think too, that people that normally buy from the website but know ST holders, or will look to get to know ST holders due to the fact FV pass on of a ST will be considerably lower.

With that, not as many on public forums.
All that is guess work admittedly.

Whatsername said:
I read an article earlier on the BBC about City’s season tickets and their required usage is 16 games out of 19. They must have a sell back or transfer system like us as it did go on to say that the season ticket holder must attend 10 of the 16 games. It didn’t say how that’ll be monitored.
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Fairly simple I would say. Based on United, they can see who goes and who sells on, or sells back.

The way around it, for full attendance, would be to pass your phone on I suppose.

Here’s a question, if over the course of 2 or 3 seasons, you don’t average personal attendance of 10 games, should you be able to retain your ST?
U-N-I-T-E-D said:
I phoned the ticket office on the day after the period ended for ST holders to swap seats.

Got told they hadn’t allocated new seats for those booted out behind the dugout and no new season tickets would be released.
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Not having data. But from what I see, this year saw possibly the most new ST given out in a decade (to cup season ticket holders).


I suspect it is due to

- rising costs around concessions

- ID checks on ST holders. Many falling foul and releasing tickets

- forced relocations

- poor performances / rising costs

- delays at turnstiles

- ticketing app / TO spot checks

The atmosphere section at OT had at least 60 new tickets.

Plus a relocation of 2000 tickets from around the ground to SERS.

This left these 2000 tickets, throughout the stadium available.

I don’t believe the club sold all of these as ST, but the majority they will have.

I suspect the club will have kept South Stand returns for general sale.

Robin said:
I was one of the unfortunate ones to have had a ticket in the South stand 8 rows behind the United home dug out, fantastic seat as long as you didn’t mind some old dodderer telling you to sit down every time anything exciting happened , a couple of seats away from Angry Ginge, very topical atm.
Anyway I have had to relocate to the next block , and my old seat is now a padded seat at £599 a game for the likes of Spurs and £799 for the Dippers.
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Good that you got sorted locally. Was it a single seat?

I don’t those with pairs and larger connected tickets got local fixes.

Prob. up in the gods.

pocco said:
My old man was saying he thinks the club and many other clubs will look to do away with season tickets all together in the near future. When you look at the difference that standard tickets are costing then it does feel like STs are a sitting duck for the club right now. It does feel like there’s something in the pipeline.
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Maybe inevitable.

I think the next step will be some sort of debenture / licence for your seat that you pay X amount per season.

This gives you claim to purchase your seats for the games.

It would be a double whammy for the club.
£150 per seat per season, and CAT A rates per game, as per costs released.

In all honesty, they would sell it out.

They would have to get through some riots first and foremost.
 
With no European football, it means less games but more importantly, Saturday football. I think (unless we implode in first half a dozen games), there will be far less pass ons.

Can we be sure about many more Saturday games with so many teams involved in Europe next season though?
Hopefully more than last season though.
 
Whatsername said:
With no European football, it means less games but more importantly, Saturday football. I think (unless we implode in first half a dozen games), there will be far less pass ons.

Can we be sure about many more Saturday games with so many teams involved in Europe next season though?
Hopefully more than last season though.
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I think we can be sure that we will have less Sunday games given we won’t have 10 + games in the EL ourselves.

The CL teams won’t have an impact. To the contrary, the Tuesday teams will need to play the Saturday before.

So it leaves the below…

Europa League qualifiers​

  • Aston Villa (sixth place)
  • Crystal Palace (FA Cup winners)

Conference League qualifiers​

  • Nottingham Forest (seventh place)
 
Those with season tickets: have your game tickets appeared in the app yet and available to transfer?
 
Carl said:
Those with season tickets: have your game tickets appeared in the app yet and available to transfer?
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Nope nothing on there yet. We are switching to NFC tickets as well this season so not if the delivery of tickets will change.
 
philipos said:
What's NFC tickets?
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NFC stands for Near Field Communication. It's a short-range wireless technology that allows devices to communicate with each other when they're close together, typically within a few centimeters. NFC is often used for contactless payments, data sharing, and device pairing.

Here's a more detailed explanation:
  • Short-Range Wireless Communication:
    NFC enables devices to exchange information when they are very close, usually within a few centimeters.

    • How it Works:
      It uses radio frequencies to establish a connection between two NFC-enabled devices.
    • Common Uses:
        • Contactless Payments: Making payments by tapping a smartphone or card on a payment terminal (e.g., Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay).
        • Data Sharing: Exchanging data like contacts, photos, or files by touching devices together.
        • Device Pairing: Quickly pairing devices like smartphones and speakers via Bluetooth.
        • Access Control: Using NFC-enabled cards or devices to unlock doors or gain access to restricted areas.
    • Security:
      NFC is generally considered secure for payments and data exchange due to its short range and the use of encryption and authentication methods.
 
Season Ticket holders with any spares, willing to take them off you.

Had been buying with membership but feel like members are being completely ripped off and would rather buy at face value from genuine supporters. Hate what the clubs doing moving season ticket holders, selling your tickets on for hospitality prices
 
Devil_forever said:
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This is in stark contrast to the narrative a lot of people were trying to paint about the ticket prices. People were claiming that the cheapest ticket price for Burnley was £70 on twitter iirc. It sounded like BS and it turns out it was BS. Pretty much every other club has had match categorisation for years now.
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The post you've quoted shows the average ticket price for last season vs this season including season ticket prices, and even then the increase is a frankly ridiculous 12.5% which is hardly justifiable after the season we have all just seen.

STs have generally increased by 5%, except for some older supporters who effectively received an increase of circa 50%. Members don't have access to the season ticket holder pricing, hence the outrage at the substantial increases for them.

On the comment re Burnley tickets, it's not really BS. The cheapest seats are technically £53 for Category B games, however the reality of the matter is that there are barely any of those seats available for members. There are probably around 3000 seats in the stadium at that price, and they are right at the front of both ends, at an absolute minimum 95% of those seats belong to season ticket holders, if not more. So realistically there are 150 seats available at £53, and in all probability, considerably less. The next price point is £63, for SAF Stand Tier 3, a place nobody wants to be; and due to the first few rows offering a reasonable view in the eyes of some, the available seats tend to be higher up, particularly if you are looking for a pair. So realistically, most people buy in Stretford End Upper or T2, or West Stand Upper or T2, because those are huge blocks of seating and there is usually availability - now priced at £68. So people weren't exaggerating, that is the price point for the tickets that are usually most accessible.

And the categorisation is just ridiculous. Firstly, it's just a small-club thing; people are paying to watch Manchester United, the biggest club in the country by a fecking mile, not the opposition. The only comparable club by size in this country doesn't categorise matches. Secondly, it might make more sense it is was actually categorised by match rather than being a clear cynical cash-grab at both ends of the system. At the top end, it's obvious - we're playing a decent side, give us more money. At the bottom end, Sunderland and Wolves? So Wolves, a relatively established PL side, are less desirable than watching us play clubs Burnley, or Brentford? No, it's all to do with the money. Sunderland and Wolves will both sell out their allocation of 3000 tickets, not even a question about it. Premier League away tickets are capped at £30, so Manchester United know right now they will make £90,000 in ticket sales from those opponents. But a number of those supposedly more desirable Category B sides which aren't actually more desirable at all, I'm looking at you Fulham, Brentford, Burnley, Crystal Palace, Bournemouth, could very well not sell out - and most of them 5 definitely won't - so when those clubs don't sell out, United can take those £30 tickets, no doubt take the section of the away end that's separated, block S229 specifically circa 550 seats, and charge £80 for them instead. It's a blatant cynical cash-grab and it's just frankly pathetic from the supposed biggest club in the country.
 
Not signing up as a member again this year, puts an end to the outside chance of ever getting a season ticket, but I'm not going to be spending £70 to sit in tier three to watch us play Burnley.
 
Tickets for West Ham and Burnley released to members on the site thismorning. Decent selection still available for both games at a glance
 
KStandBarmyArmy1993 said:
I know a lot are feeling the same.
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If it was just me I'd be seriously tempted to go and watch FC United but the lad has just had his first season watching United and he's completely obsessed. Now costing us £105 a game rather than £75-80 so not sure if we'll be able to get on as many games as we'd like.
 
I wonder if the club will renege on these 'Categories' like they did (eventually, after making a few quick quid) last season with the £66 tickets?

I'm curious to what extent MUST / Fan Advisory Board were included, or asked the question at all, when deciding the ticket prices for 25/26?

Such a shame that they have handled things in such a shady manner.

I fear what the atmosphere will be like at OT if we have a bad start.

The owners need to be held accountable for this.

From the very cheapest seats available (fat chance I'll get my hands on these anyway, as @JB7 very well summarised above), it'll cost me £100.00 a pop for me and my little one if we want to watch us play the Scousers or the Berties.

Disgusting set of rodents.
 
NHLYR 1878 said:
I wonder if the club will renege on these 'Categories' like they did (eventually, after making a few quick quid) last season with the £66 tickets?

I'm curious to what extent MUST / Fan Advisory Board were included, or asked the question at all, when deciding the ticket prices for 25/26?

Such a shame that they have handled things in such a shady manner.

I fear what the atmosphere will be like at OT if we have a bad start.

The owners need to be held accountable for this.

From the very cheapest seats available (fat chance I'll get my hands on these anyway, as @JB7 very well summarised above), it'll cost me £100.00 a pop for me and my little one if we want to watch us play the Scousers or the Berties.

Disgusting set of rodents.
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Neither MUST nor the FAB were consulted at all about the Categories or prices

This generally has been the way that INEOS operate - they don't give a feck and just push it through.

Previously most major ticketing decisions were referred to MUST/FAB before being made public.
 
simons104 said:
Tickets for West Ham and Burnley released to members on the site thismorning. Decent selection still available for both games at a glance
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I hope members vote with their feet and reject these price, Burnley pricing in particular is daft

Sadly I expect they will still sell out and then gives no incentive to the club to rethink pricing
 
NHLYR 1878 said:
I wonder if the club will renege on these 'Categories' like they did (eventually, after making a few quick quid) last season with the £66 tickets?

I'm curious to what extent MUST / Fan Advisory Board were included, or asked the question at all, when deciding the ticket prices for 25/26?

Such a shame that they have handled things in such a shady manner.

I fear what the atmosphere will be like at OT if we have a bad start.

The owners need to be held accountable for this.

From the very cheapest seats available (fat chance I'll get my hands on these anyway, as @JB7 very well summarised above), it'll cost me £100.00 a pop for me and my little one if we want to watch us play the Scousers or the Berties.

Disgusting set of rodents.
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I fear what the atmosphere will be like regardless of the start we have and that it will likely be worse year on year. I've seen so many fans that would go to a game and get involved saying they're just not bothering this season who, will no doubt, be replaced by day trippers that want to watch a match sat in silence like they're watching the Opera.
 
U-N-I-T-E-D said:
If it was just me I'd be seriously tempted to go and watch FC United but the lad has just had his first season watching United and he's completely obsessed. Now costing us £105 a game rather than £75-80 so not sure if we'll be able to get on as many games as we'd like.
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Do both. I go and watch FC when United aren't on and it's always a great day out. Your lad will love it.
 
Rood said:
Neither MUST nor the FAB were consulted at all about the Categories or prices

This generally has been the way that INEOS operate - they don't give a feck and just push it through.

Previously most major ticketing decisions were referred to MUST/FAB before being made public.
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If that's the case, then the club have reached new depths of fiendishness.

It seems they are deliberately sabotaging any relationship with the hardcore/ generational/ local fanbase.
 
U-N-I-T-E-D said:
I fear what the atmosphere will be like regardless of the start we have and that it will likely be worse year on year. I've seen so many fans that would go to a game and get involved saying they're just not bothering this season who, will no doubt, be replaced by day trippers that want to watch a match sat in silence like they're watching the Opera.
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All things considering, the atmosphere has been pretty good over the last few years. Some of the Europa games last year were as good as anything in the last 20 years. It makes the current decision making, even worse. The Liverpool cup game in 2024 was up there Roma, Barca etc.

The players clearly benefited from the support a few times last season and even when it was going really bad, fans stuck with the team.

For these prices and with this uncertainty, I'm not sure who's buying these tickets. There's only a limited number of day trippers and Liverpool/city (who's policies are just as bad as ours for ordinary fans) offers a better experience at the moment if you aren't actually arsed about who you claim to support.
 
U-N-I-T-E-D said:
I fear what the atmosphere will be like regardless of the start we have and that it will likely be worse year on year. I've seen so many fans that would go to a game and get involved saying they're just not bothering this season who, will no doubt, be replaced by day trippers that want to watch a match sat in silence like they're watching the Opera.
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Sadly you're right.

I just can't fathom why you'd go to a match just to to join in with "Take Me Home" right before kick-off, just to remain silent and seated for the rest of the game.

All a bit gloom and doom but it's hard to see any positives at the moment!
 
NHLYR 1878 said:
If that's the case, then the club have reached new depths of fiendishness.

It seems they are deliberately sabotaging any relationship with the hardcore/ generational/ local fanbase.
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TBF the most loyal (ST holders) can't complain much at the moment - it's the members getting screwed

My only advice is don't renew your membership and don't pay those inflated prices - but probably there are people out there who will

But lack of dialogue with fan groups on such major decisions is unacceptable and a big change from how things have been done for the past decade or so
 
Rood said:
TBF the most loyal (ST holders) can't complain much at the moment - it's the members getting screwed

My only advice is don't renew your membership and don't pay those inflated prices - but probably there are people out there who will

But lack of dialogue with fan groups on such major decisions is unacceptable and a big change from how things have been done for the past decade or so
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At this current point in time, I'm not sure there is. As I've said before, members could easily get tickets for every match last season and the demand will be reduced even more with these price hikes.

They have to be very careful here. There will be a tipping point. The first midweek league game will be interesting as there normally the ones with less demand even when we're playing ok.
 
Rood said:
TBF the most loyal (ST holders) can't complain much at the moment - it's the members getting screwed

My only advice is don't renew your membership and don't pay those inflated prices - but probably there are people out there who will

But lack of dialogue with fan groups on such major decisions is unacceptable and a big change from how things have been done for the past decade or so
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Most would have renewed their memberships prior to this new pricing being released.

The club have been ridiculously sneaky in my opinion and should be offering refunds on memberships!
 
If you see how the government raise taxes they move the goalposts one group at a time. If they do it all at once then everyone kicks off and public pressure will be greater not to do it.

So the club make major changes to members pricing this year, next year they ‘have’ to make changes to ST pricing as it ‘wouldn’t be fair’ to members to keep the ST prices artificially low. That way they divide and conquer. Its coming!
 
Rood said:
TBF the most loyal (ST holders) can't complain much at the moment - it's the members getting screwed

My only advice is don't renew your membership and don't pay those inflated prices - but probably there are people out there who will

But lack of dialogue with fan groups on such major decisions is unacceptable and a big change from how things have been done for the past decade or so
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I paid my memberships just before Villa, just to save the kerfuffle of auto-renewal and any potential aggro with the club charging incorrectly.

That said, it was a prerequisite set by the club in that anybody with a membership purchased after Monday 16th June, would not be entitled to tickets upon release of the fixtures last Wednesday. Made not a blind bit of difference as they released what seemed like 30 tickets across our 19 games.

As someone else said, it's Members bearing the brunt now, they're coming for ST Holders next.

Snide bastards running this club.
 
I’m afraid they are going to be in for a shock, last season was probably the worst football and results we have seen in a generation but the fan loyalty was amazing and most if not all league matches were sold out.
Now if they had brought in these price hikes in say about 2010 when we were dominating you could understand it.
However if you check the prices and availability for Burnley there is very little appetite to watch mediocrity, my old seat behind the dugout which is now an ‘ exec ‘ seat and is in a block of a few hundred seats and priced now at £319 for this game and as high as £700 for some, it looks like none have been sold yet, the only tickets for Arsenal are ridiculously priced execs which look like reclaimed season tickets , East tier 2 £425 and there must be about 100 tickets available at that price in 2 blocks , they can only hope that the transfer window pays off and we have a good window otherwise we are in trouble
 
For anyone that doesn't know the next lot of tickets are now live for members. Managed to get around 8,000th in the queue, rather than 50,000th on fixture release day.

No idea how many are available.
 
I got tickets for both me and my nephew but only mine is showing up in my app.

He linked in my account as having a strong relationship, so it not that. Anyone got any ideas why his one isn't showing up?
 
GlasgowRedz said:
I got tickets for both me and my nephew but only mine is showing up in my app.

He linked in my account as having a strong relationship, so it not that. Anyone got any ideas why his one isn't showing up?
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There is a relationship option called "App Ticketing" - select that (you may need to create the relationship again) then your nephew's ticket should appear too
 
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