Arsenal to increase season ticket prices, fans upset with move

Premier League club Arsenal announced there would be a 6% “increase in the price of seats in the lower tier at the Emirates Stadium” and a 4% “increase in the upper tier, on a match-by-match basis,” according to Sam Dean of the London TELEGRAPH. The Arsenal Supporters’ Trust has “expressed its ‘disappointment’” with the move after the club announced season ticket prices would go up “in excess” of about $126 for next season. The AST had called on Arsenal to “freeze pieces for the 2024-25 campaign,” saying that another increase “was ‘unnecessary’ because of rising broadcast and commercial revenues.” AST analysis shows that the total cost of the season ticket “will therefore rise by approximately” 10%. Club sources have “cited rising operating costs as one of the reasons for the rise,” along with the “need to maximise revenues to stay within financial rules” (London TELEGRAPH, 2/20).