Premiership: season ticket sales

Last Modified: 25 Jul 2008
By: Channel 4 News

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Channel 4 News online contacted the media department of every football club in the Premiership and Championship.

The replies marked as "official response" were the replies we received from media departments.

In some cases we contacted Ticket Offices after failing to get an official response, their replies are marked as such.

The figures relate to season ticket sales as of the week commencing Monday 21 July.

The new Championship season kicks off on 9 August, with the Premiership starting on 16 August.

Arsenal
No official response.
Ticket Office said: "We believe we have roughly 35,000 season tickets for next term - but that is just a ballpark estimate."
No details obtained over waiting lists.

Aston Villa
Official response: "We're not releasing figures to media at this point."
Ticket Office said: "We are not able to provide estimates until the end of next week."

Blackburn
No official response yet.

Bolton
Official response: "Sales are up roughly eight per cent on last year's."
Ticket Office referred us to PR department.

Chelsea
No official response.
Ticket office said: "We have sold 25,000, the same as last season, which is a capped amount."
No details obtained over waiting lists.

Everton
Official response: "Last year we had sold 22,784, this year it is 23,079 so far."

Fulham
Official response: "Sales are up 15 per cent on last year, and up 30 per cent on two years ago."
Ticket Office said: "We won't release figures for this season until the end of next week - but we sold 10,500 last season."

Hull City
Official response: "Last season we sold 11,000, for this season we have sold 20,500"

Liverpool
Official response: "Last year season tickets and corporate tickets sales were 26,350, this year they currently stand at 25,929, however we are still at present dealing with requests and expect the final figure to be close to that of last years.

"We do cap season ticket sales and at present the level at which we do so is 26,000 - 27,000.There is a waiting list for season tickets at Anfield."

Man City
No official response.
Ticket Office said: "We sold about 28,000 in total last season, and about 25,000 so far for next season."

Manchester United
Official response: "We are still going through our renewals process but expect our season ticket figure to be the same as last year which is capped at 57,000."
No details obtained over waiting lists.

Middlesbrough
Official response: "I don't have any firm figures yet, I'm afraid."
Ticket Office said: "Can't release that information."

Newcastle
No official response.
Ticket Office said it was not allowed to release that information.

Portsmouth
Official response: "We sold 14,070 season tickets for the 2007/8 season. We have sold 14,676 for the forthcoming 2008/9 season, an increase of 606."

Stoke City
No official response. Ticket Office said: "About 8,500 sold last season, 17,500 for this season."

Sunderland
Official response: "I'm afraid we don't actually publish season ticket figures until the season gets under way. The figure is a moving total every day so we have a policy not to disclose it until we have our 'final' number on the opening day of the season.

"I can confirm that we had 30,000 season ticket holders last season and, if this helps, our chairman Niall Quinn was recently quoted as saying 'we're approaching that figure now but we're hopeful of surpassing it when the season starts'".

Tottenham Hotspur
Official response: "Our season ticket sales are capped at 23,500 and are sold out - as was the case last season. We have in excess of 18,000 on our waiting list, which is an increase of over 40 per cent on last season."

West Bromwich Albion
No official response
Ticket Office said: "15,000 sold last season - 22,000 sold this season."

West Ham United
No official response
Ticket Office said: "We have sold about 24,000 season tickets so far, compared to 26,000 in total last year."

Wigan Athletic
Official response: "I have spoken to our commercial department and they do not want to make it public knowledge our season ticket sales at this time. We will release them at the start of the season." Ticket Office said: "Can't release that information."