Arsenal, Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Spurs are the only Premier League teams with an active seat utilisation policy that forces season ticket holders to use their seats or risk losing them.
All these clubs count using their club’s ticket exchange resale service as using the seat.
Leicester City limits the use of their Ticket Exchange service to five games per season, while Newcastle United restricts it to ten games per season.
West Ham have confirmed in meeting minutes that they are considering introducing an active seat policy and would become only the eighth Premier League club to do so if they decide to trial it next season. As it stands, West Ham do not limit the number of games that can be sold on the Ticket Exchange, allowing season ticket holders to sell all 19 home games if they wish.
Under these active seat policies, failure to attend a set number of home games or relist your seat would result in losing the right to renew your season ticket for the following season.
I had a season ticket and had a battle to get a rev a after my ticket looked tacky cheap and well like EFL Championship material. After taking on the Establishment I succeeded in getting a replacement. After that I renewed and was there when we got a footballing lesson from Newcastle and Liverpool as well as the mighty City. The reality is ‘what is a season ticket really?’ ‘It’s a passport to disaster and misery and pain no more no less peoples. Stay strong, Peace Out and Shalom TTETVBE
It’s hard not to conclude that those two are greedy clinging grasping bar stewards
As a concession or OAP my season ticket works out about £18 per game or £350 per season. For one midweek game I sold it back to the club and they offered me £8 and no doubt sold it out to some un suspected punter for £34. That’s fair isn’t it?
Seems a strange policy to introduce when you are struggling to sell season tickets
This is disgusting. My son lives with his mum and I have him every other weekend and if a home game doesn’t fall on that weekend his seat goes unused. It’s not like I can take a random child and to upgrade a child ticket to an adult is ridiculous money. We have 6 season tickets in a row and he is in the middle so to list it, it is a single child ticket in the middle of 6. So should he lose that ticket if he can’t attend enough games through no fault of his own,?
It’s been in action long before. At the beginning of this season some spotty 12 year old rang me at home asking me to explain my absences. Told him I’d been ticket holder for 46 years and had missed a few games through illness and he told me the new policy
Good…whoever has the seats next to me sells every single one…different tourists every week…
Doesn’t affect those. Probably selling them 3rd party touting pages for profit. Not ticket exchange.
Have you been talking to daddy again Sean?😜
With the dross we’ve had to watch there the last few seasons that sounds more like a blessing.
Will mean nothing when the waiting list has gone they’ll be loads available