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With the new TV deal about to kick in, over the next 3 seasons clubs will be receiving vast amounts of money as we all know, but just how much ?
I remember reading an article a while ago, probably about 5 to 7 years ago and about 3 TV deals back and it was discussing the cost of going watching Premier League Football and comparing the cost of Season Tickets across Europe, a subject that has again come to the fore at the moment. In the article they had calculated how much each seat was worth from the tv deal for it's duration and they had come up with £29 as the amount that the deal equated to for each seat at each game.
I have just looked at a table that gives the breakdown of the TV Deal that is about to begin & lasting 3 Seasons.
http://www.totalsportek.com/money/premier-league-tv-rights-money-distribution/
So if a team manages to stay in the prem by finishing 17th each year they will receive a MINIMUM of £103,000,000, that increases if they are on TV more than the minimum amount of times per season (10) by approx £1million per game.
So with a current stated capacity of 40,157 at Goodison the £103mill divided by 3 seasons, divided by 19 games, divided by number of seats gives a value of £44.99. So that's £44.99 that Everton are receiving for each seat in Goodison before any tickets are sold.
I know that our Season Tickets in comparison to others in the Prem come in as some of the cheapest but even so they have probably risen by an amount way more than inflation, and I know that we had years without price rises but the amounts that this new deal is worth to the clubs in comparison to the previous deal is an astronomical amount. The money from previous deals has pushed up Players Wages (and agents fees) to amounts per week that the majority of fans could only dream of earning per year.
This time ALL clubs should be looking at reducing the cost of going to games instead of allowing the extra riches to end up in players pockets again. We as a club need the coffers boosting to fund a stadium (another issue I know) but as much as I'd like us to be in a spanking new world class dome I'd rather be able to attend every game where we are than it be a couple of times a season treat.
If we were to finish in the top 6 each season then it would be worth a minimum of £58.54 per seat.
Top 4 each season is worth a minimum of £61.16.
The words of Uli Hoeness regarding ticket prices should be somehow subliminally implanted in the brains of EVERY football club Chairman, Owner & Chief Executive until they recognise that this is the way forwards for the game and the clubs we love.
This is what Uli Honess had to say as he once again confirmed that fans would still be able to pay £104 for a standing season ticket in 2014/15 behind the goal to watch Bayern Munich.
“We could charge more than £104, let’s say we charged £300.
We would get £2m more in income but what is £2m to us?
In a transfer discussion you argue about that sum for five minutes but the difference between £104 and £300 is huge for the fan.
We don’t think that the fans are like cows who you milk.
Football has got to be for everybody and that is the biggest difference between us and England.”
Fans support their clubs through thick & thin, and that isn't just on the pitch, they continue to support their clubs when their own times are hard as well, often finding the money to go to the games when there are other things that they probably could do with allocating the money to, they do this because of a LOYALTY and it's time that the loyalty was repaid.
I remember reading an article a while ago, probably about 5 to 7 years ago and about 3 TV deals back and it was discussing the cost of going watching Premier League Football and comparing the cost of Season Tickets across Europe, a subject that has again come to the fore at the moment. In the article they had calculated how much each seat was worth from the tv deal for it's duration and they had come up with £29 as the amount that the deal equated to for each seat at each game.
I have just looked at a table that gives the breakdown of the TV Deal that is about to begin & lasting 3 Seasons.
http://www.totalsportek.com/money/premier-league-tv-rights-money-distribution/
So if a team manages to stay in the prem by finishing 17th each year they will receive a MINIMUM of £103,000,000, that increases if they are on TV more than the minimum amount of times per season (10) by approx £1million per game.
So with a current stated capacity of 40,157 at Goodison the £103mill divided by 3 seasons, divided by 19 games, divided by number of seats gives a value of £44.99. So that's £44.99 that Everton are receiving for each seat in Goodison before any tickets are sold.
I know that our Season Tickets in comparison to others in the Prem come in as some of the cheapest but even so they have probably risen by an amount way more than inflation, and I know that we had years without price rises but the amounts that this new deal is worth to the clubs in comparison to the previous deal is an astronomical amount. The money from previous deals has pushed up Players Wages (and agents fees) to amounts per week that the majority of fans could only dream of earning per year.
This time ALL clubs should be looking at reducing the cost of going to games instead of allowing the extra riches to end up in players pockets again. We as a club need the coffers boosting to fund a stadium (another issue I know) but as much as I'd like us to be in a spanking new world class dome I'd rather be able to attend every game where we are than it be a couple of times a season treat.
If we were to finish in the top 6 each season then it would be worth a minimum of £58.54 per seat.
Top 4 each season is worth a minimum of £61.16.
The words of Uli Hoeness regarding ticket prices should be somehow subliminally implanted in the brains of EVERY football club Chairman, Owner & Chief Executive until they recognise that this is the way forwards for the game and the clubs we love.
This is what Uli Honess had to say as he once again confirmed that fans would still be able to pay £104 for a standing season ticket in 2014/15 behind the goal to watch Bayern Munich.
“We could charge more than £104, let’s say we charged £300.
We would get £2m more in income but what is £2m to us?
In a transfer discussion you argue about that sum for five minutes but the difference between £104 and £300 is huge for the fan.
We don’t think that the fans are like cows who you milk.
Football has got to be for everybody and that is the biggest difference between us and England.”
Fans support their clubs through thick & thin, and that isn't just on the pitch, they continue to support their clubs when their own times are hard as well, often finding the money to go to the games when there are other things that they probably could do with allocating the money to, they do this because of a LOYALTY and it's time that the loyalty was repaid.
