The announcement that Season Ticket holders will be charged £25 to watch the League Cup tie against Hibs on August 18 didn’t go down well with Celtic supporters.
Pricing for cup ties is agreed between both clubs with Hibs taking a 50% cut of the gate money once expenses for hosting the fixture are deducted.
Clearly Hibs will be looking to maximise income from what could well be their final involvement in the competition but the Celtic board have again missed an opportunity to give something back to their core support, the fans that commit £600 plus before the start of June.
Currently Celtic’s bank balance is probably sitting at around £100m, before the end of the year they will be hosting Champions League ties and will probably end the transfer window in profit with any future spending likely to come from the transfer of Matt O’Riley.
The monetary value of the season ticket has been eroded. No longer includes qualifiers or friendlies. £25 for the first cup game.
And with 30k people on a closed waiting list, there’s no motivation to look after the punters.
— – (@Tam_Selleck) August 5, 2024
Last season was the first in which Season Tickets covered only 19 SPFL matches, the previous bonus of a friendly or European qualifier on the Season Ticket disappeared alongside the usual 6% increase in prices.
In the Celtic board room it is all justified by supply and demand, if Season Tickets sell out they can increase the cost of it and reduce what it consists of, simple as that.
The idea of a goodwill gesture doesn’t exist on spreadsheets, everything is profit and loss with profit dominating.
Proving Season Ticket holders with the Hibs free of charge was never likely but charging £15 would have cost the club an extra £10 per fan into the pot split with Hibs with 50% of that returning to Celtic.
At a real push 40,000 Celtic fans will attend that cup tie resulting in a £200,000 pay off to Hibs, much much less than the money squandered on a variety of project signings last summer who couldn’t make the bench against Kilmarnock on Sunday.
There are umpteen sums that can be put together to justify a ‘cut price’ ticket for the Hibs match- the next issue will be whether the four match Champions League package is above or below £200 while investment in the first team is choked to boost the Balance Sheet.
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Good to see they’ve treated their own to new seats. Main stand was a disgrace yesterday. Concrete or plaster on food counters and walkways. In 2 months no one saw fit to give the place even a power wash or a sweep at the very least. pic.twitter.com/75BNt1vHMk
— Nicole Lavery ✝️🍀💚🏆 (@MeSoPretty) August 5, 2024
Any chance of feeding this back JP. There’s no way for us to contact them and the club don’t look at social media @CelticFCSLO
Lack of comms on basic stuff is at an all time low
— Spam Rogic | イギリスの女王は死んだ (@SpamRogic_) August 5, 2024
Took away chance to get some free tickets for family members at Christmas and new year. Took away the chance to get 1/2 price tickets for hospitality in North stand. And for me the worst one no longer able to get into the kerrydale suite.
— stuart miller (@stuart4749) August 5, 2024
Wait until the CL package is out. They will try and bully fans into buying it as well, offering no opportunity for folk to buy them on a game be game basis for those who can’t afford the full quota.
— 1967LLL (@1967lll) August 5, 2024
I couldn’t agree anymore. Covid season. We had to pay full price for our season tickets even though we weren’t able to get in. I paid over £1000 that season for a login to watch games online 😫 rinsing the fans as usual. Wait til CL groups announced. 3rd kit will be released 🤔
— Ash 🍀 (@daftfenian) August 5, 2024
money money money. were just customers to them
— kev (@kevmc1978) August 5, 2024
A couple of years ago, we could also go to Celtic Park to see the first team train (as a wee thank you to us for our loyalty). That was something, at least.
— JG 🍀 (@gaff_jen) August 5, 2024
Agreed. I will be nearly £900 between season ticket and champions league tickets and feel like the board forget when they were covering large bits of the stadium with banners.
— Lee (@Itswayoverther2) August 5, 2024
2 Comments
by Stevie c
A lower ticket price would have been welcomed by the fans and it would also hit hibs in the pocket for their unfair treatment of our fans with their ticket allocation cuts .
by William Melvin
@Stevie C
THAT was EXACTLY the first thought that came into my head.
Hibs are as bad as the huns in the way they treat our fans.
We should show them zero loyalty because they deserve none.
It’s a thing of the past when the two clubs and their fans felt they had a common cause.
Missed a chance to fuck them over because it would have meant charging our own fans less !
Someone in the Celtic boardroom ought to read the fuckin room cos they’re building a huge bonfire and guss who’s going on the top !!!