Manchester City are introducing new season tickets and revamping Flexi Gold as part of their expansion plans.
Manchester City are introducing thousands of new season tickets starting from next season as well as revamping the controversial Flexi Gold tickets. A meeting between the club and its official fan group City Matters thrashed out the details that should help to preserve and improve the atmosphere in the Etihad Stadium when the new seats open up next year.
The move has to be seen as a massive victory for supporters, giving them what they have been calling for and protesting about. Thousands of supporters missed the first nine minutes of the Leicester game in a hugely successful demonstration against the club’s partnerships with nine official ticket resale partners, and there was set to be a six-minute encore at the start of the Wolves game on Friday aimed specifically at the lack of new season tickets offered by the club.
It remains to be seen if that goes ahead and, if it does, how many will attend but the planned protest from pressure groups including 1894 and MCFC Fans Foodbank Support appears to have had an impact. City Matters should take enormous credit as well, given they have negotiated the new season tickets with the club.
From the beginning of next season, there will be at least 500 new Flexi Gold tickets with a percentage of those being available to youngsters. However, while the controversial £150 and £75 respective joining fees are still in place, the club will pay back a percentage of that every time a ticket is bought for a game.
Should those members attend 16 or more games, they will get all of their money back – meaning anyone doing so will have paid the same as a traditional season ticket. Anyone attending fewer games will have paid less as a result of paying for fewer matches.
The club have also announced that thousands of new season tickets will be available once the North Stand is completed. A club statement said that ‘the majority of the general admission seat capacity resulting from the expansion of the North Stand for the 2026/27 season will be dedicated to season ticket members’.
While the seating numbers are yet to be finalised, this ensures the biggest chunk of the new tickets will be season cards and on top of that 50 per cent of those will be for Junior Members.
That follows on from the club’s decision last month to freeze season tickets, changing their mind on a rise after listening to the strength of feeling against one from City Matters and its chair Alex Howell.
Subsequent changes to how many games supporters personally have to attend next season to keep their season tickets did not go down well and those complaints are not likely to go away.
However, the latest news may significantly dampen the general unrest that had been rising all season.
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