Liverpool fans will be loving life right now but one main issue that may be a realisation for many supporters, is the difficulty to obtain tickets to watch our club.
We scoff at the news that 32,196 tickets (via liverpoolfc.com) were given to the club ahead of the Carabao Cup final, in a stadium that holds 90,000 people, though the issues may be just as large at our own home.
With the club announcing the financial results for the 2023-24 season, a range of facts and figures were shared to the world on liverpoolfc.com and this included:
‘LFC’s Membership scheme grew to more than 250,000 supporters during last season, which is a club record from the previous season.’
If we revert back to Wembley tickets, of the 32,196 given to the club there have been 73% allocated to eligible supporters with the correct number of credits for the eligible games (via liverpoolfc.com).
This means that roughly 23,503 people were able to go and watch the Reds in a cup final, if they had built up enough credits.
Yet, news that we have ‘more than 250,000’ members means that they stood a less than 10% chance of getting tickets to the landmark event.
Liverpool members have a small chance of watching games
The normal supporter likely doesn’t sign up to the membership scheme expecting cup final tickets, in fact new members couldn’t have purchased a League Cup auto-cup ticket this season without previous credits in the competition.
News that there are 250,000 members, with membership prices currently ranging from £12.99 to £38.00, means the club are pulling in a lot of money from genuine fans who want to buy tickets.
However, season ticket holders, hospitality tickets and members with years of credits built up will get priority over these newer arrivals.
When we consider how few tickets are actually available to members in general and how hard it is to go to a single game, it’s perhaps a little upsetting that the club continue to charge such a fee (with the current prices heavily reduced due to being so far into this season).
Would it not be more fair to either be more transparent with the small chance of ticket success, reduce the cost to become a member or take more hospitality tickets away in order to cater for the ‘normal’ supporter.
These ideas would lose the club money though and that is the main focus for a business, which is how we are operated.
It then makes it no surprise that ticket touts thrive, when there’s such a small chance of success otherwise.
If we delve deeper, it could be asked who are the bigger touts – the club or those reselling tickets?
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I gave up my membership but my 2 sons still have theirs. We never once got 3 tickets for a game. Hopefully they will get 2 seats and go to a few matches. FSG are money grabbing off the support because they prefer hospitality sales.
I have my memberships years now…but yet I still can’t get a season ticket which is sad…..but the club and touts are screwing us with thier prices ..hopefully one day they will realise that we the die hard fans pay the wages
In auto cup scheme with all the credits apart from the away game credits run back for 8year or so unsuccessful in the ballot never et a look in for Premier league tkts
I’ve been on the season ticket list for 30 years and was hoping I would be in with chance with the new Annie Rd end development, I was number 1450 before the work and I’m 1450 after the work. Where are the extra tickets going?
I buy a membership with the hope of getting 1 or 2 tickets a year because the distance to travel but never get a look in surely the club now the issue and do nothing about it maybe they would do something about it if we cancel our auto renew
You forget to add the amount of free new memberships that have been added, due to the club only allowing ticket transfers to new membership if not on friends and family …join for free get ticket transferred by a tout😡😡