Tim W Posted August 31, 2010 Posted August 31, 2010 Ticket prices Zilina v Chelsea Published by britskibelasi at 9:28 pm under European and tagged: Champions League, Chelsea, MSK Zilina, ticket prices MSK Zilina, Slovak Champions & proud qualifiers to the Champions League group stages appear to be showing their loyal fans a big fat middle finger in incredible style this afternoon! Details have been released on the ticketing policy for the home match against Chelsea on 15th September. I actually couldn’t believe this when I read it but the cheapest tickets (behind the goals) are going for €50! I had to re-read this several times to confirm that this wasn’t a package price for all 3 group stage matches, but it does indeed appear that a mark up of over 550% is being applied to the prices charged for domestic league games! A range of ticket prices are available for Corgon Liga games and basically fans can sit where they want in the stadium and get change from €10 with which they could enjoy a pre-match beer & sausage. The VIP seats for league games are on offer for €20 – equivalent to 20 times less than what is being asked for the Chelsea match! For fans wanting to watch the match from the stands alongside the pitch the prices being asked are a staggering €150 (Cat I), €200 (Cat II) or for a VIP seat … €400! These figures are ludicrous wherever we are talking about, but this is Slovakia, where average wages are in the region of €500-€800 / month! €200 seat anyone ?? The stadium in Zilina can only hold just under 11,000 for Champions League matches, and of course the club can’t be blamed for trying to cash in on their success, but this is absolutely outrageous. This is the most brutal example of pricing ordinary fans out of the watching their team’s biggest matches (especially as many will be desperate to follow their team to the away legs as well!) The Pod Dubnom stadium will (probably) be full of a business & corporate crowd, who have no intention to support their team in the passionate way the real Zilina fans have demonstrated in the 3 qualifying rounds leading to this stage. Other parties making up the numbers in the stands on Zilina’s biggest night for decades will probably be the entire Slovak parliament & Chelsea supporters (one wonders if even they will be willing to fork out these prices!) I have real sympathy for the ultras, and the real fans, and wouldn’t be surprised to see this move by the club backfiring quite badly in the coming weeks. Judging by reaction on fans forums, they are not happy! Watch this space for more news .. p.s. for anyone (like me) unable to believe these prices: http://bit.ly/9Zi00E Read more: http://britskibelasi.footballunited.com/2010/08/30/ticket-prices-zilina-v-chelsea/#ixzz0yCh5Omhx Join FootballUnited.com for Real Fans & Real News Linky
Bovis Messroom Posted September 1, 2010 Posted September 1, 2010 Ticket prices Zilina v Chelsea Published by britskibelasi at 9:28 pm under European and tagged: Champions League, Chelsea, MSK Zilina, ticket prices MSK Zilina, Slovak Champions & proud qualifiers to the Champions League group stages appear to be showing their loyal fans a big fat middle finger in incredible style this afternoon! Details have been released on the ticketing policy for the home match against Chelsea on 15th September. I actually couldn’t believe this when I read it but the cheapest tickets (behind the goals) are going for €50! I had to re-read this several times to confirm that this wasn’t a package price for all 3 group stage matches, but it does indeed appear that a mark up of over 550% is being applied to the prices charged for domestic league games! A range of ticket prices are available for Corgon Liga games and basically fans can sit where they want in the stadium and get change from €10 with which they could enjoy a pre-match beer & sausage. The VIP seats for league games are on offer for €20 – equivalent to 20 times less than what is being asked for the Chelsea match! For fans wanting to watch the match from the stands alongside the pitch the prices being asked are a staggering €150 (Cat I), €200 (Cat II) or for a VIP seat … €400! These figures are ludicrous wherever we are talking about, but this is Slovakia, where average wages are in the region of €500-€800 / month! €200 seat anyone ?? The stadium in Zilina can only hold just under 11,000 for Champions League matches, and of course the club can’t be blamed for trying to cash in on their success, but this is absolutely outrageous. This is the most brutal example of pricing ordinary fans out of the watching their team’s biggest matches (especially as many will be desperate to follow their team to the away legs as well!) The Pod Dubnom stadium will (probably) be full of a business & corporate crowd, who have no intention to support their team in the passionate way the real Zilina fans have demonstrated in the 3 qualifying rounds leading to this stage. Other parties making up the numbers in the stands on Zilina’s biggest night for decades will probably be the entire Slovak parliament & Chelsea supporters (one wonders if even they will be willing to fork out these prices!) I have real sympathy for the ultras, and the real fans, and wouldn’t be surprised to see this move by the club backfiring quite badly in the coming weeks. Judging by reaction on fans forums, they are not happy! Watch this space for more news .. p.s. for anyone (like me) unable to believe these prices: http://bit.ly/9Zi00E Read more: http://britskibelasi.footballunited.com/2010/08/30/ticket-prices-zilina-v-chelsea/#ixzz0yCh5Omhx Join FootballUnited.com for Real Fans & Real News Linky Thnk gawd I went to the 2003 match there. I think we paid roughly a tenner for our tickets, which was still a mark up. Only had to pay 40p for a pint of beer and food was cheap too. Since then the slovaks have joined the EU and adopted the euro so I guess everything else will have been bumped up as well by now. I think Marseille is probably now our first preference of the group game destinations even if the stewards and plod were absolute tools last time. Pity, Zilina's a nice town and was a great visit last time.
wrayman Posted September 2, 2010 Posted September 2, 2010 No way...thats nuts-know that Chelsea in Europe get stiffed in hotels/flights...but now I've seen it all- doing the fans for even a match tic. €200 should buy you a seat for life there...will be at return leg at the Bridge...with beers, food & crap hotel off GlousterRd wount spend that...TOTAL! I feel for those of us heading out- some spoke with said same as Bovis and gonna skip it...which defeats the whole point of the tourney Hope our away support finds a way to beat the system Incredible....didn't even pay that for our WC tics in SAfrica Wrayman
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