Waterford Utd. Admission prices 2005

Admission prices for the new season have been announced. Adult stand tickets will now cost €15, a child stand ticket will be €8 while student/OAP prices for the stand will be €10. Admission to the ground only will be €10 for adults, €5 for children while students and OAP's will have to pay €8.

Very poor value by way of comparison with GAA & all Waterford Utd 2005 admission prices are increased since last season.
(eg. stand was E12 now E15)
As a regular attender of both GAA & soccer I always think the GAA do a great job promoting the game with free admission for kids usually being the norm for all bar sell out matches. And this includes the stand. Maybe helps explain why there was such poor support at Lansdowne last October at the cup final.

I think its a bit on the steep side.I know the Dublin clubs already charge 15 EUR admission and their gates suffered last year.What are the other non Dublin clubs charging next year.Our gates aren't great so hope this does not have the same impact.I was happy with paying 12 EUR but a 3 Eur increase for the same facilities is a bit much.

€10 normally in the first division.

Still €15 to sit or €10 to stand seems reasonable to me for professional (albeit part-time) football. It compares well with even lower leagues across the water not to mind the premiership. €20 to stand and €25 to sit in the Heineken Cup at Thomond Park. I think the Celtic League is also €15.

If the GAA is cheaper then good luck to them but in a country which rips us off at every turn I think domestic football is remarkably good value for money.

The poor crowd at the Cup Final was probably down with going head to head with Man Utd v Arsenal and playing on the same day as the compromise Rules. A late sunday evening kickoff (4.15 I think) wasn't ideal either for travelling back to Waterford or Longford. Even still though I would have expected a far bigger corwd particularly from Waterford whose support was disappointing.

The kids free issue in Longford is a problem. Parents were droppimg kids off and not going in, a free baby sitting service. As far as I know the club aren't doing it anymore. Admission prices according to website are 15, 10 and 5. Thats a €3 up on last year for adult tickets.

Well if it is done it will be done on a different basis, definitely won't be a blanket all kids free, €15 seems to be pretty standard now in the Premier

Cork City is going up to €13 for adults, €5 for kids afaik

Was €10 for Adults last season (for all areas of the ground)

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Originally Posted by kilkennycat2004

Very poor value by way of comparison with GAA

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From the consumers point of view it may seem that way but it is not really comparing like with like. eL clubs use the gate receipts to run their clubs and, more importantly, to pay their players. Where does the money go in the GAA? The players aren't paid. Obviously a lot goes on upkeep of ground, insurance, security ( :) )etc. But eL clubs have these expenses as well (even if the ground cost is rent).

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Originally Posted by SÓC

Cork City is going up to €13 for adults, €5 for kids afaik

Was €10 for Adults last season (for all areas of the ground)

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That's a 30% increase - which is steep. It is also ridiculous that City do not have a student rate. :ball:

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Originally Posted by LFC in Exile

That's a 30% increase - which is steep. It is also ridiculous that City do not have a student rate. :ball:

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But it was the cheapest in the league by a distance so it had to go up really

How do the various season ticket prices compare?

€15 may be fairly standard now but it is a complete rip-off. It's part of the Irish football mentality: 'We can't attract new fans so let's just **** over the ones we have'. Clubs do nothing to try and increase their gates and everything to try and decrease them. Irish football is a shambles.

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Originally Posted by Passive

€15 may be fairly standard now but it is a complete rip-off. It's part of the Irish football mentality: 'We can't attract new fans so let's just **** over the ones we have'. Clubs do nothing to try and increase their gates and everything to try and decrease them. Irish football is a shambles.

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That is one tight Hoop! :eek:
Usually I'd be the first to complain about price hikes -- Westlink etc. -- in rip-off Ireland, but €15 for a live football game at the highest level is not excessive.
Don't make me do the sums, but €15 is something like IR£10 or 11, a bit more than two packs of fags, or three drinks out, for what amounts to a two-hour package. I'd pay multiples of that for our oh-so-sweet last match against you lot :cool: .
EL fans have a lot to moan about (some more than others ;) ), but ticket pricing isn't one of them.

All-Ireland quarter-finals wer €45 for both hurling and football last year, including the Kilkenny-Clare replay in Thurles which was not a double-header. The all-Ireland final was €60 I think. I paid €15 or €18 for a 2nd or 3rd round qualifier in Clones 2 years ago, it might be €20 now.

Admission prices are very reasonable, went to a game in Scotland recently and they charged the same as €28 ..... €28 can you imagine it ..... and the same game City would not look out of place at all, nor some of the higher places eL teams.

Lads, we are laughin' .... enjoy it !!

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Originally Posted by A face

Admission prices are very reasonable, went to a game in Scotland recently and they charged the same as €28 ..... €28 can you imagine it ..... and the same game City would not look out of place at all, nor some of the higher places eL teams.

Lads, we are laughin' .... enjoy it !!

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A face

You are correct. We pay a lot less than other leagues in neighbouring states.
Went to a Champions League game in Belgrade in December 2003 and it was €9 but then again League games over there are €5 and the average weekly wage is only €50.

I've been pricing a trip to Sicily to see Palermo v Juve at the start of February: €12 for the Curva. Just goes to show.

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Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

A face

You are correct. We pay a lot less than other leagues in neighbouring states.
Went to a Champions League game in Belgrade in December 2003 and it was €9 but then again League games over there are €5 and the average weekly wage is only €50.

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€9 .... that is 18% of their wage ... Jebus H Khrist !! :eek:

Nantes away last season €5

Not complaining about the price once it benifits the club,

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Originally Posted by BohDiddley

football game at the highest level

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Sorry, are we still talking about the EL here? Just because gypos and Rovers play at a higher level than Sligo and Dundalk doesn't make it "the highest level". The EL is a very poor league and, in my opinion, is getting poorer. That is because of the total neglect of the national association and the inability of clubs (with the possible exception of Cork) to attract local support. Rovers, Bohs, Shels and Pat's combined can't attract more than 10% of the Dublin population to their games. It's pathetic. People need to stop living in this foot.ie bubble where everything is fine, because it's not. The EL is a shambles because of the people who run it. Wake up. Demand change.

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Originally Posted by Passive

Rovers, Bohs, Shels and Pat's combined can't attract more than 10% of the Dublin population to their games.

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Over 100,000 attending matches of four different Dublin clubs!!! Are you forgetting that football comes a good bit down the ranks in terms of most popular sport in this country? Jees, you don't half aim high. Some weeks four premiership clubs in London would do well to get that support through their gates and football is arguably the national sport in England.

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Originally Posted by Passive

People need to stop living in this foot.ie bubble where everything is fine, because it's not.

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What bubble, general concensus 'round here is that drastic improvements ARE needed. If anything, expecting crowds of up to 30,000 at a dublin club game is dreaming... for now at least. ;)