The process to relocate 26,000 season ticket holders from the Boleyn Ground the Olympic Stadium is gathering pace with the final two weeks of band 2 sales before they move on to band 3 appointments in October and band 4 in December.
Bond Holders together with Band 1 and 2 season tickets are thought to account for up to 14,000 supporters and visitors to the West Ham Stratford reservation centre have been told that 20% of all fans have taken up the ‘plus two’ offer of introducing new season ticket holders to sit with them. If true, the season ticket holder numbers have swelled by an additional 5,600 for next season. I am told the £99 season tickets for Under 16’s have been very popular and have been encouraged by sales staff.
When you factor in another 3,500 tickets have been reserved and sold to wealthy corporate customers and an additional 3,000 seats at minimum will be reserved for away Premier League supporters it means nearly half of the 54,000 seats are already reserved in the new stadium.
Season ticket holders visiting the Stratford reservation centre in the past week have reported lack of choice of seats and difficultly of sitting large groups together as band 2 draws to an end. We understand there is a severe shortage and a limited amount of Band 1 and 1966 seats remaining even if fans wanted to upgrade.
There is estimated to be another 12,0000 season ticket holders in bands 3 and 4 and if 20% take up the ‘plus two ‘offer that would add another 4,800 to the season ticket hoard for our first season.
It means West Ham appear to be on target to sell over 36,000 season tickets by the end of band 4 appointments in February next year on top of the 3,000 corporate seats they have already nearly sold out.
In February next year band 5 tickets will be available and any remaining season tickets in bands 1- 4 will be sold to the 20,000 waiting priority list.
West Ham are believed to have imposed a season ticket holder maximum of 40,000 in the Olympic Stadium with the South stand upper and lower reserved for away supporters in league and cup games. This south stand is likely to be the area which will have the limited amount of general sale tickets and be used for West Ham’s contractual obligation to give away 100,000 tickets per year to Newham residents.
I still can’t see how we can allocate 100,000 tickets to freebies to Newham residents.
That could suggest 5000 per game, if we say 19 league games and at least 1 cup game.
Am I missing something here?
It was part of the deal which saw Newham put £45m into the rebuilding costs. 100,000 per season. So they might give 10,000 ore more when playing Stoke or a lesser team and none for category A games like Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City
yes I see your point Sean. Just think it stifles the casual supporter somewhat.
Do we have to go there.I might barricade myself into The Boleyn last game of the season.No excitement at all in this move as it gets closer.Damn,im getting sad already 😀
calm now Tys. Number One knows what he’s doing. just keep the faith old chap.
It aint about keeping the faith,lol,i just dont want to move into this bloody athletics stadium.I like my cosy Boleyn 😀
Thank god we have room to expand. 10,000 odd unused seats plus loads of empty gaps which could take more seats.. We have room to grow if the club can leap on these first few seasons of excitement. The other London rivals cannot grow so easy. Arsenal 60k Spuds 60k & now Chelsea 60k and I’m stunned at the lack of ambition these clubs are showing Germany & Spain have far less successful leagues but larger stadiums (even though they are not always full) if arsenal want to expand their stadium it’ll be a right pain in the posterior