We’re both disappointed and angry at the Club’s decision to charge £25 for the FA Cup Fourth Round replay v Southampton on 5 February, as announced earlier today. Tickets for the original tie at St Mary’s last Saturday were priced at a very reasonable £10 for Season Ticket Holders, with any tickets going to Members charged at £20 for both home and away fans. The visiting allocation sold out to Season Ticket Holders.
The £10 price set by Southampton FC was an acknowledgement of the financial burden increasingly placed onto football fans, especially fans of Premier League clubs and especially at this time of year, when teams have played 10 matches in just over a month. It was also a recognition of Clubs needing to incentivise their regular support to attend a competition that has been systematically devalued year upon year by those running the game.
Season Tickets at Tottenham Hotspur are easily among the most expensive in the division, as are prices for individual, categorised league games. The Club has an opportunity to show flexibility and recognition of commitment and cost with domestic cup pricing, especially after removing any cup credits from the Season Ticket package. To elect to charge 150% more for the replay than the original tie is unacceptable. Let’s remember that, under FA Cup rules, the host team sets the pricing. And that THFC had previously committed to an accessible pricing policy for home Cup games since 2014. Whilst the game has been kept out of categorisation, charging both Southampton and Spurs fans more than double the price of last weekend’s game is highly regrettable, to say the least.
We are urging the Football Supporters’ Association to lobby the FA Cup Committee to review how ticket pricing is set in their competition, including exploring a potential rule change to prevent ticket prices for replays being set higher than prices for original ties.
THST Board
27 January 2020
Season Tickets at Tottenham Hotspur are easily among the most expensive in the division, as are prices for individual, categorised league games. The Club has an opportunity to show flexibility and recognition of commitment and cost with domestic cup pricing, especially after removing any cup credits from the Season Ticket package. To elect to charge 150% more for the replay than the original tie is unacceptable. Let’s remember that, under FA Cup rules, the host team sets the pricing. And that THFC had previously committed to an accessible pricing policy for home Cup games since 2014. Whilst the game has been kept out of categorisation, charging both Southampton and Spurs fans more than double the price of last weekend’s game is highly regrettable, to say the least.
We are urging the Football Supporters’ Association to lobby the FA Cup Committee to review how ticket pricing is set in their competition, including exploring a potential rule change to prevent ticket prices for replays being set higher than prices for original ties.
THST Board
27 January 2020
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