Price of tickets for the Euro 08 Qualifiers in Croke Park [Archive]

Daxion

08/07/2006, 2:25 PM

GERMANY
I believe the tickets for the Stuttgart game range from �25 to �65, not including the delivery charge.
CYPRUS
Last years game in Cyprus, the CFA charged I think �27, I heard that this year they want to charge �55. They are taking the MICHAEL.
HOME GAMES
I wonder if the FAI are going to add an inflationary increase to the homes games?

pineapple stu

08/07/2006, 4:48 PM

I paid �20 Cypriot last year I think - close on E40. But still a ludicrous increase. Something like �7 (E14) into the U-21s game too!

You can get tickets for the German game for E24 - I was given a choice of E24, E27 and E35. Haven't heard of anything higher, but stand to be corrected there obviously.

Don't know if the FAI will up prices too much, especially once we get into Croker - more supply which should keep prices down, and the FAI are happy anyway as they get more money.

Danny

14/07/2006, 9:09 AM

from rte

RTE has learned that top tickets at rugby internationals in Croke Park will cost over �1,000.

When Ireland play France and England next February, the IRFU will charge �850 plus VAT per person in a corporate box, resulting in a cost of more than �1,000 per person.

With almost 2,000 seats at this level the IRFU can earn almost �2 million just from the corporate boxes alone.

That sum alone will cover the reported rental cost to the GAA of �1.5 million per match.

That still leaves the IRFU with another 75,000 tickets to sell including almost 9,000 in the exclusive Premium Level selling at �110.

Ordinary stand tickets will cost �80.

Under an agreement with Croke Park Stadium Ltd, the existing box holders will be given first refusal at a cheaper price. They can attend for �750 plus VAT, a cost of over �900 per person.

The FAI has told RTE that corporate box tickets will be under �400 per person.

Tickets will be sold as a bundle. Therefore to take a box for the high demand game against Germany, you will also have to take it for the game against Cyprus.

The game with Wales will be bundled with the match against Slovakia.

Premium level tickets for soccer internationals are expected to cost �85, with stand tickets priced at �50 and �70.
An IRFU spokesman said the difference in price merely reflects the different markets involved.

Kingdom

14/07/2006, 9:35 AM

To be charged �50 or �70 for a stand ticket, is brutal. The most you'd pay for an All-Ireland final ticket is �60. And there is real demand for those!

Can't believe they'll charge �70 into a stand, shocking.

Dodge

14/07/2006, 10:07 AM

yeah but the GAA don't charge themselves €1.5 million in rent

Jens1893

14/07/2006, 10:47 AM

FIFTY EUROS? Shocking. Or are Dublin prices on par with London prices?

Duffman

14/07/2006, 10:51 AM

I would have thought that existing corporate box holders would automatically get to these games as they have paid for it already in their yearly/whatever fees for the box?

Dodge

14/07/2006, 10:57 AM

€50 = GB�30 (roughly) so its no more than you'd pay for premiership games (and again they don't get charged €1.5 million to play a home game)

NeilMcD

14/07/2006, 11:02 AM

The deal with corporate is that existing owners of the boxes have first choice but they dont get the tickets as part of their package. Its the same with concerts.

paul_oshea

14/07/2006, 11:03 AM

typical "soccer" posts.

lads, they can make nearly 3/4 of that that back in the corporate boxes, as can be seen by the irfu point, though ye all failed to notice that accidentally on purpose. so if there are 2000 corporate boxes, and 70 - 75,000 places for the average supporter, i think they can charge less than 50 euro. its just the fai uping the prices and using the rental price being charged by GAA HQ as a scapegoat for this.

oh ya, and any of hte bigger games in the premiersihp cost AT LEAST �45.

fulham was the only match around the 30 mark that i remember getting a ticket for. so its way cheaper than the premiership.

stickyjoe

14/07/2006, 11:07 AM

typical "soccer" posts. .

typical bash the FAI post.charging a fair price less then the rugger but the FAI get the hassle.TBH I thought the ticket prices would of been a lot higher. 50-70 euro is probably below the average cost of a premiership game

nedder

14/07/2006, 11:08 AM

In croke park, GAA charge �60 per seat for All Irelands ( and this will probably go up this year), no matter where you sit, middle of stand on halfway line or behind the goal in canal end.

So if the FAI are going to grade seats, fair enough

paul_oshea

14/07/2006, 11:12 AM

typical bash the FAI post.charging a fair price less then the rugger but the FAI get the hassle.TBH I thought the ticket prices would of been a lot higher. 50-70 euro is probably below the average cost of a premiership game

where did i say it was an unfair price?!?!?! NO WHERE

i actually think its a decent price, to use and sit in a world class stadium with world class facilities. I never bashed the FAI, i was simply making the point to the above posters woh were trying to use the GAA as scapegoats.

Dodge

14/07/2006, 11:12 AM

Oh and th €1.5 mill is only the rent on the place, of course there'll be other costs associated with the games. I Don't see anything wrong with the prices myself

paul_oshea

14/07/2006, 11:16 AM

GAA charge €60 per seat for All Irelands

for All irelands?!?! ha what is the definition of "All Irelands"?!?! last time i was in croker park for an "all ireland" it cost me 27 euro....and that was only last year.....

NeilMcD

14/07/2006, 11:18 AM

I think they mean All Ireland Final

Dodge

14/07/2006, 12:13 PM

All Irelands is obviously short for All Ireland Finals (both the gaelicking and hurling) FFS

Forever Dreamin

14/07/2006, 12:41 PM

No problem with the ticket prices in general BUT i hope they will have a family enclosure with kids tickets for between �5 and �10. Having had to pay full price for 2 kids for years, its beyond the reach of a lot of people and while mine are now almost adults anyway I just feel that it would be a good move.

stickyjoe

14/07/2006, 1:02 PM

[QUOTE=paul_oshea]where did i say it was an unfair price?!?!?! NO WHERE

i actually think its a decent price, to use and sit in a world class stadium with world class facilities. I never bashed the FAIQUOTE]

sorry paul took you up wrong there.was actually agreeing with your argument:cool:

paul_oshea

14/07/2006, 1:11 PM

no worries stickyjoe. good we are agreeing!!

Dodge, for someone who doesnt go to gaelic matches that might be obvious, but those of us who have an interest in (sport)everything irish, I hadnt a clue FFS. isnt it great how we can both use FFS and sound all knowning FFS, FFS. get the point.

I was at the all ireland quarter finals last year in croker. oh and ya ive been to manys an all ireland qualifier as well FFS. So FFS it isnt that obvious to me FFS.

aidz1

14/07/2006, 1:11 PM

while discussing the prices the irfu intend to charge into the rugby matches in croke park, they followed it on by saying the fai intend to charge �60 and �80 for all standard seats in croker for the eurp qualifiers...
ouch..... crazy prices.....(especially with some of the views being up in the sky..)

Dodge

14/07/2006, 1:24 PM

Dodge, for someone who doesnt go to gaelic matches that might be obvious, but those of us who have an interest in (sport)everything irish, I hadnt a clue FFS. isnt it great how we can both use FFS and sound all knowning FFS, FFS
No bother, thought you werehaving a go at him for not using the Correct term...

hate the sport myself...

paul_oshea

14/07/2006, 1:32 PM

No bother, thought you werehaving a go at him for not using the Correct term...

hate the sport myself...

its ok, i forgive you.

ya that is what i was getting at, i was fairly confident you didnt go to matches, and i was trying to point out that I didnt know whether he meant all matches in the championship or whether he meant the all ireland final or the final and semi finals....but as i said i forgive you so we can leave it at that

nedder

14/07/2006, 2:05 PM

its ok, i forgive you.

ya that is what i was getting at, i was fairly confident you didnt go to matches, and i was trying to point out that I didnt know whether he meant all matches in the championship or whether he meant the all ireland final or the final and semi finals....but as i said i forgive you so we can leave it at that

Sorry for not putting in the word "finals" Paul, but I don't believe that a gaa-goer like yourself wouldn't understand that when I said "all irelands" , I meant finals.
Sure even Dodge who hates the games knew what I meant, FFS

paul_oshea

14/07/2006, 2:07 PM

nedder my point was that loads of stages of the championship are "all irelands", i wasnt trying to be smart i honestly didnt know what you meant. :)

nedder

14/07/2006, 2:29 PM

no hassle Paul,

anyway getting back to the price of tickets....

reckon �70 for centre of pitch would be ok, if tickets got cheaper as you went to corners and cheaper still behind the goal. And cheaper for canal end lower than canal end higher.

Macy

14/07/2006, 2:50 PM

Reckon the prices are fair enough tbh. The FAI, like the IRFU, have to maximise income from the profitable games. The only unfortunate thing with the FAI taking this route is their brutal use of funds compared to the IRFU, and no doubt the international player pool will be looking for a big increase in their slice too (but probably no thread about that).

paul_oshea

14/07/2006, 2:55 PM

And cheaper for canal end lower than canal end higher.

particularly the higher ends, ye can see fcuk all from upper tier in the hogan and cusack , i cant imagine what upper tier canal is like!!!!

thank god ive never had to watch a hurling game from that height....

macy elaborate on your final point will ye?

nedder

14/07/2006, 3:55 PM

Forever Dreamin

14/07/2006, 4:27 PM

[QUOTE=paul_oshea]particularly the higher ends, ye can see fcuk all from upper tier in the hogan and cusack , i cant imagine what upper tier canal is like!!!!
QUOTE]

Rather be in the upper deck than in the front row of the lower canal, you can see f*** all from there!!

Upper tier of the Cusack might as well watch it in Quinns pub youll get a better view, (and be closer) been there once and saw nothing, Lower canal is not too bad, upper canal is excellent, never been in Hogan since the redevelopment and well the Hill is for the visitors!

Mayo_Bhoy

14/07/2006, 4:34 PM

Dodge, for someone who doesnt go to gaelic matches that might be obvious, but those of us who have an interest in (sport)everything irish, I hadnt a clue FFS. isnt it great how we can both use FFS and sound all knowning FFS, FFS. get the point.

I was at the all ireland quarter finals last year in croker. oh and ya ive been to manys an all ireland qualifier as well FFS. So FFS it isnt that obvious to me FFS.

In all fairness anyone that takes even a passing interest in Irish sport knows that when referring to THE all-ireland, it means THE final and not qualifiers etc.
Anyway Paul, how do ya think THE connacht will go on Sunday?

reder

15/07/2006, 12:48 PM

the star is saying that tickets will cost between �60 and �70 per game. They can shove them.

gspain

15/07/2006, 1:05 PM

Forever Dreamin

15/07/2006, 1:25 PM

Looks like the football games will be a lot cheaper than the rugby games but still quite high. The corporate box prices at less than half of their rugby equivalent is a bit much. Think they should be much higher as they'll sellout anyway and price is pretty irrelevant in that sector.

There should be some reasonably priced seats too for the blockbookers from the north and south terraces however I'm not that there will be.

from what i can understand the price quoted by the IRFU for a corporate box seat was a 2 match price, whereas the FAI price was a single match but they still are grouped into 2 match packages, ie Wales and Slovakia or Germany and Cyprus. This leaves the fai price pretty close to the irfu.

I would agree with tiered pricing for the ground but doubt if the fai will do it as they will sell out the ground regardless for the first few games.

As regards the Cyprus away game I hope the FAI charge the Cyoriot visitors �150 a ticket as they are charging us about 3 times the price of a home ticket. Last time that happend was in Malta if i remember right, they increased prices from �5 to �20 for the irish game.

paul_oshea

15/07/2006, 2:50 PM

Anyway Paul, how do ya think THE connacht will go on Sunday?

re: your previous comment, i already explained myself and wont be again.

i dont really care who wins(im from roscommon), if galway perform to the level they did against the ros then they will be beaten, but if they perform to a level they are capabe of then they will win, plus bergin is back and mayo have no midfield.

BTW, how much are we being charged for the cyprus game. sly cnuts know that we will bring a big gathering. do uefa not have some sorta ban on this sorta thing or something?!?!

Milesmayhem24

15/07/2006, 3:41 PM

for All irelands?!?! ha what is the definition of "All Irelands"?!?! last time i was in croker park for an "all ireland" it cost me 27 euro....and that was only last year.....

Were you on Hill? Tickets there are only �20 - �25 but stand tickets would be �40 and at least �60 for All ireland final so I'd say �50-�70 would be reasonable enough

gspain

15/07/2006, 4:54 PM

As regards the Cyprus away game I hope the FAI charge the Cyoriot visitors �150 a ticket as they are charging us about 3 times the price of a home ticket. Last time that happend was in Malta if i remember right, they increased prices from �5 to �20 for the irish game.

Both of their visiting fans will probably get comps. :D

They had about 200 home fans for the game last October but it will be higher this time as Greece won't have a vital qualifier head to head with the game.

Used to happen all the time behind the old Iron Curtin. Poland away in 91 were �10 and 70p respectively if I remember correctly. The Poles were buying tickets for the Irish at a small premium. Hungary 89 was something similiar but you were allowed to buy home tickets there.

Forever Dreamin

15/07/2006, 5:28 PM

wasnt it the same in the stadium of water, lisbon in 95, our tickets were twice the price of the locals, mind you we never event went through stiles that night, just swam in!!

gerard

19/07/2006, 7:46 PM

hi do you know where or how i can get tickets for the chec game this october,i live near norwich and am out of touch thanks gerard

DmanDmythDledge

19/07/2006, 7:47 PM

Does anybody know where the EL fans will be put?

Forever Dreamin

20/07/2006, 6:53 AM

hi do you know where or how i can get tickets for the chec game this october,i live near norwich and am out of touch thanks gerard
youve more chance of getting an audience with the pope! sorry to tell you but the waiting list for block bookers alone will take up any tickets not used by the checs, as noone will want to chance been bypassed for the games in croker next year.