{"id":190,"date":"2018-09-06T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T06:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sports-index.org\/?p=190"},"modified":"2018-09-06T06:31:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T06:31:22","slug":"premier-league-supporters-wont-have-to-pay-over-30-for-away-tickets-again-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-index.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/06\/premier-league-supporters-wont-have-to-pay-over-30-for-away-tickets-again-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Supporters Won\u2019t Have To Pay Over \u00a330 For Away Tickets Again This Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supporters of Premier League clubs will be thrilled to hear that they won\u2019t be having to pay over \u00a330 to watch their favourite team on the road throughout the 2018-19 season as the price of top-flight away football tickets is once again frozen.<\/p>\n

This term, the arrivals of Wolverhampton Wanderers, Cardiff City and Fulham add to the list of different destinations for away fans to travel to in the Premier League and there definitely won\u2019t be a shortage of away football tickets sold.<\/p>\n

On 9 March 2016 it was announced that football tickets for away games in the Premier League were to be capped at \u00a330 for the next three seasons from 2016 to 2019, following negotiations between all 20 clubs and Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore.<\/p>\n

A phone meeting with representatives of each club was arranged by Scudamore following the signing of the new lucrative TV deal, worth \u00a35.14billion, which started in the 2016-17 campaign and has ultimately gone from strength to strength ever since.<\/p>\n

It is believed that there were opposing opinions during the ground-breaking discussions but the majority of the popularity swayed those negative voices and ultimately saw all 20 clubs agree to the Premier League football ticket price deal.<\/p>\n

The change of price was so well-supported that the \u00a330 price cap still would have been imposed through a vote, due to the backing of at least 14 different clubs making it Premier League policy.<\/p>\n

Negotiations over the change were prompted by mass protests over the cost of football tickets in England, with many supporters backing to saying \u2018football without fans is nothing\u2019 with large banners in the stands during top-flight games.<\/p>\n

In an official Premier League statement announcing the change, away supporters have been praised for buying football tickets<\/a><\/strong> for matches in other stadiums all over the country to distinguish atmospheres in England from those in other countries.<\/p>\n

The \u00a330 away football ticket price cap still stands a just a compromise arrangement though, with fan groups such as the Football Supporters\u2019 Federation (FSF) continuing to hassle the Twenty\u2019s Plenty campaign to cap football ticket prices at \u00a320.<\/p>\n

Understandably, it\u2019s fair to say the vast majority of clubs weren\u2019t keen to agree to that when the key talks took place two years ago, but chief of the top-flight Scudamore was happy to drive \u00a330 as the figure to agree on after months of the topic being debated.<\/p>\n

Different countries such as Spain, Germany, Italy and France which hold Europe\u2019s biggest clubs have been charging much less than in England for their football tickets for years, and now hopefully this change in policy continues to have a widespread benefit for all supporters.<\/p>\n

Sure, the football ticket price cap still doesn\u2019t make the price of football tickets in England more affordable than those in other countries nearby, but it\u2019s only good news and 100% makes tickets more affordable as a whole in this nation.<\/p>\n

Where will you go to watch your favourite team this season?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supporters of Premier League clubs will be thrilled to hear that they won\u2019t be having to pay over \u00a330 to watch their favourite team on the road throughout the 2018-19 season as the price of top-flight away football tickets is once again frozen. This term, the arrivals of Wolverhampton Wanderers, Cardiff City and Fulham add […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports-index.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports-index.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports-index.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports-index.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports-index.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sports-index.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/sports-index.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports-index.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports-index.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports-index.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports-index.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}