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Post by MrTuktoyaktuk on Apr 20, 2016 9:22:48 GMT -5
According to an email from the club, only 200 season tickets are left for sale. It is surprising to me that they would cap it. I imagine they want to reserve enough capacity for a lot of walk up but given the extra space in Keyworth, I figured there would be plenty. Good "problem" to have!
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Post by Punch on Apr 20, 2016 10:36:15 GMT -5
Typically sports teams will allow up to 1/3 capacity to be sold as season tickets. The rest are reserved for walkups.
City has never publicly released its season ticket sales figures, but I believe someone did some sleuthing and found this was more or less the formula they've used in the past.
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Post by russell on Apr 20, 2016 17:37:00 GMT -5
FC United sold about 50% of capacity this season - ballpark 2,200 out of 4,400.
The dilemma is that as they are so cheap you get a significant proportion of season ticket holders not going to games; they buy a season ticket as a show of support even though they may only get to a handful of games.
Some games up to 50% of season tickets haven't actually been in the ground. That's fine if you aren't selling out but it would be ridiculous if a club is getting sell outs to be turning people away when there are actually plenty of tickets not being used. There's been talk of FC United having a facility for season ticket holders to return their pass for an individual game should they not be attending what is looking like a sell out but we haven't quite reached that yet, albeit been close a couple of times.
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Post by jamesd on Apr 29, 2016 11:39:20 GMT -5
I just saw city release that they have sold 2k in season tickets, and are releasing another 200 to purchase. My guess is with all the MLS talk, those are going to go quickly as well. Whatever your view of MLS to Detroit, it has provided a lot of free publicity to DCFC.
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