Euro 2020 tickets

[Scary Bear]

9 hours ago, Gordopolis said:

Interesting. I suppose though since then football has become massively commercialised. What price were domestic (Scotland) tickets of that era Vs now?

 

In 1996 a Scotland qualifier was £14.

[Gordopolis]

In 1996 a Scotland qualifier was £14.

Ha - that was the first Scotland game I ever attended!
There's only one Jim Leighton!

[Scary Bear]

Ha - that was the first Scotland game I ever attended!
There's only one Jim Leighton!

Aye, him and Colin Hendry were immense.

[welshbairn]

Went a bit mad today and booked flights and hotels before the ticket lottery is even announced. Gone for a last 16 game in Budapest and a QF in Munich. Train between the two and a few nights in Vienna. Fancy the trip anyway so f**k UEFA if they don't deliver. 

[John Lambies Doos]

I’m going to check and see how many Francs (or possibly Euros) I paid for tickets at France ‘98. I’d imagine most big football tournaments like the Euros and World Cups are a bit pricey.
It was 145 Francs for a ticket for Scotland v Morocco game in '98. Not sure how much 145 Francs were worth back then.

10 Francs to the Pound was always the rough estimate

[craigkillie]

On 13/07/2019 at 09:58, Scary Bear said:

In 1996 a Scotland qualifier was £14.

Not sure if the prices were tiered back then, but the cheapest tickets for this qualifying campaign are £27, which isn't really too bad 23 years later.

[Marshmallo]

13 hours ago, craigkillie said:

Not sure if the prices were tiered back then, but the cheapest tickets for this qualifying campaign are £27, which isn't really too bad 23 years later.

@pieandbov 

600 empty seats for a Tuesday night against Moldova - unsurprising given it's £65 a ticket with no concessions! Surely better to give all tickets away free to schools to pack the stadium out! Typical SFA incompetence and greed!

985 RTs, 2,798 Favs

[welshbairn]

Bit worrying.

EURO 2020 breaks records with 19.3 million ticket requests

[invergowrie arab]

20 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

Bit worrying.

EURO 2020 breaks records with 19.3 million ticket requests

Not for those of us on the hook for 3k

[George Parr]

Ffs, I’ve been keeping my application a secret for the last month to try and keep the numbers down.

[Gnash]

22 hours ago, craigkillie said:

Not sure if the prices were tiered back then, but the cheapest tickets for this qualifying campaign are £27, which isn't really too bad 23 years later.

I paid £3 for that game, but that was part of a package available for kids who were members of supporters' clubs (of club teams). 

We were stuck in the corner. 

[GordonS]

On 13/07/2019 at 00:27, Gordopolis said:

Interesting. I suppose though since then football has become massively commercialised. What price were domestic (Scotland) tickets of that era Vs now?

 

The first Scotland games I went to in the last 80s and early 90s were £4-5 for an adult, £1-2 for a child. I might dig out some old ticket stubs and have a look at what they were later. Inflation in the price of tickets is the worst thing by far in football and has turned me off the top level men's game entirely. They've completely priced unemployed people and low-paid families out of the game - the people that football used to be for. Anyone willing to spend 185 Euros to watch a group match in a 24 team European Championship has far too much money. 

For comparison, the most expensive tickets for the Champions League final at Hampden in 2004, in the upper tier in the centre of the south stand, were £50. The same seats this time will be three times as much, for inferior matches.

[GordonS]

On 13/07/2019 at 09:58, Scary Bear said:

In 1996 a Scotland qualifier was £14.

That's the club deck though, it would have been a lot less in the end stands.

That was the first time I'd missed any home qualifiers since the late 80s, when I was a kid. I was a poor student and it was a steep increase compared with the previous qualifiers.

[welshbairn]

1 hour ago, GordonS said:

For comparison, the most expensive tickets for the Champions League final at Hampden in 2004, in the upper tier in the centre of the south stand, were £50.

£50 would have got you 3 packs of Woodbines, a posh seat at the pictures, and 3 pints of heavy back in them days.

[RobbieD]

12 hours ago, Marshmallo said:

@pieandbov 

600 empty seats for a Tuesday night against Moldova - unsurprising given it's £65 a ticket with no concessions! Surely better to give all tickets away free to schools to pack the stadium out! Typical SFA incompetence and greed!

985 RTs, 2,798 Favs

When the f**k was this?  

 

Edit - I couldn’t even remember playing Moldova. Had to Google it.  I’d expect that tweet to be just like that though so fair play.

Edited July 16, 2019 by RobbieD

[Burnie_man]

15 hours ago, welshbairn said:

Bit worrying.

EURO 2020 breaks records with 19.3 million ticket requests

What's the Hampden uptake in the three figure seat categories?  how many were falling over themselves to shell out £110 for the corner of the West Stand?

[welshbairn]

Last time I looked the high demand was only for the cheapest category for nearly every game at all stadiums. Most people would prefer to be behind the goal than in the corners I would have thought, quite apart from the price. I went for the middle price because I only applied for 2 games and want to be fairly sure of getting them. If the middle price is full I could have to pay the full whack for the top bracket, about £300, but at least I won't be looking at £3000 like some.

[Marshmallo]

 

15 hours ago, welshbairn said:

Bit worrying.

EURO 2020 breaks records with 19.3 million ticket requests

 

18 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

 I went for the middle price because I only applied for 2 games and want to be fairly sure of getting them.

What exactly were you expecting? Why did you think there was a ballot? "fairly sure" lol

Limited games in highly populated, affluent cities set up for tourism with a tradition of football attendance. Shocked that demand has outstripped supply tbh.

[welshbairn]

9 minutes ago, Marshmallo said:

 

 

What exactly were you expecting? Why did you think there was a ballot? "fairly sure" lol

Limited games in highly populated, affluent cities set up for tourism with a tradition of football attendance. Shocked that demand has outstripped supply tbh.

According to Uefa there was very high demand for the cheapest bracket, not so much for the middle and little for the top. If I don't get a middle ticket I'd be surprised not to get a top one. When you apply they ask you whether you're prepared to switch up if your chosen price isn't available.

[CountyFan]

1 hour ago, Burnie_man said:

What's the Hampden uptake in the three figure seat categories?  how many were falling over themselves to shell out £110 for the corner of the West Stand?

Why are you so angry about this? If you'd rather sit at home and watch then it is no skin off UEFA's nose. Plenty of folk - like me - will have taken the view that their chances of seeing a major tournament on home soil in the future are pretty much zero and therefore the expense is justifiable.