Portsmouth season ticket prices rise as Championship football returns to Fratton Park
Portsmouth have confirmed that season ticket prices will experience a small rise as the club prepare to host Championship football at Fratton Park once again.
According to Andy Moon on X [15 May], season tickets for 2024-25 housed in the Fratton End and the wings of the North and South Stands will command an extra £41 from this season in League One, a 9.9% rise.
Season tickets based in the central areas of the North and South Stands will cost an added £51 on this season’s charge, a rise of 12%. These figures were compared to the club’s Early Bird renewal price from last year.
The increase in prices has been explained by Pompey CEO Andy Cullen as covering larger operating costs: “Our season ticket prices for the Championship have risen, necessitated by increasing costs.
“[These are] most notably for matchday staff following a significant increase in the National Minimum Wage.”
Season tickets can also be purchased for the Pompey women’s side, who simultaneously earned promotion to the FA Women’s Championship for next term.
Renewals will go on sale to existing season ticket holders on 22 May, and will be capped at 15,000.
Portsmouth season ticket price rises are entirely fair
From a supporter’s perspective, season ticket price announcements are always one of the most tentative topics of the year in terms of the fanbase mood, and can at times act as a crash back to Earth when the team are performing so well.
But these rises of no more than 12% across the board are fair enough, a sentiment which has been echoed by many fans on social media.
There will always be at least the minority who complain, but Cullen’s reasoning reflects the working class, communal nature of Portsmouth of looking after our own.
And as someone who has spent years working as club staff around several EFL media teams, the idea that the club have your back is a fantastic feeling.
Not only that, but the quality of football, quality of opponents and – hopefully – the quality of the Pompey squad will significantly increase next season, which for me certainly boxes off the extra forty or fifty quid spent across 12 months by each supporter – and even less for the youngsters and senior citizens.
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