Arsenal Football Club today defended their ticket prices after a BBC ‘Price of Football’ study showed they had the highest ticket prices in the Premier League.
The study showed that tickets prices had been significantly cut or frozen for the 2016/17 season. Arsenal hit back saying that they had an elastic pricing structure that allowed families from lower income families to attend some of the key matches at the Emirates for £25 a match.
Arsenal Manager Arsene Wenger defended the club’s ticket pricing saying, “It is a very complicated subject. How do you decide what is the right level of ticket prices? First of all your attendance. I don’t think we are on the same level ground as foreign clubs. For example, Bayern Munich paid one Euro for their ground whereas we paid £128million for our ground. We pay absolutely everything ourselves so we have to generate more revenue.”
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Arsenal Football Club today defended their ticket prices after a BBC ‘Price of Football’ study showed they had the highest ticket prices in the Premier League.
The study showed that tickets prices had been significantly cut or frozen for the 2016/17 season. Arsenal hit back saying that they had an elastic pricing structure that allowed families from lower income families to attend some of the key matches at the Emirates for £25 a match.
Arsenal Manager Arsene Wenger defended the club’s ticket pricing saying, “It is a very complicated subject. How do you decide what is the right level of ticket prices? First of all your attendance. I don’t think we are on the same level ground as foreign clubs. For example, Bayern Munich paid one Euro for their ground whereas we paid £128million for our ground. We pay absolutely everything ourselves so we have to generate more revenue.”
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