West Ham top the table for the percentage of tickets sold for their home games this season. The club reported an official attendance of 56,988 for the West Ham v Spurs London derby last weekend meaning just 12 tickets went unsold which equates to an impressive 99.98% fill rate.
Overall last weekend saw an average 97.44% stadium capacity at Premier League grounds, the second best of the season to date after opening day.
Four teams reported more than 99% of the stadium full including the Hammers and all teams were over 92% full. There were just 8,751 unsold tickets across all Premier league grounds.
The figures and table are published on www.insideworldfootball.com
Unfortunately, tickets sold does not equate to seats occupied. Several thousand West Ham season ticket holders who had valid tickets left their seats empty for the category A game at the weekend. All tickets put on ticket exchange before 11am on Saturday were sold but several hundred tickets put on Ticket Exchange after 11am did not sell.
Sorry but re season tickets being resold by being put on the exchange before 11am is factually incorrect.
I live and work in the North and through circumstances I regularly use the exchange to sell my ticket, my wife’s ticket and the child’s ticket we have for our granddaughter. Unfortunately I could not get down for the Monday night game against Huddersfield and relisted the 3 tickets. Two were purchased but one went unsold….I was a bit frustrated when my granddaughter’s ticket was resold and my wife’s wasn’t which meant I lost out further on the scheme. Therefore when I found out on the Friday lunch time that I was needed at work and we would have to miss the Spurs match I decided to list only mine and my wife’s tickets and got confirmation of their resale on Friday night. I therefore put my Granddaughter’s ticket up for resale and got confirmation that it had been listed at 23:54 on Friday ….however the ticket went unsold
This isn’t a moan as I knew as soon as the TV fixtures were announced that we had less games on a Saturday which means Friday night or Monday fixtures I will probably have to use the scheme…the issue is 3 seats together are harder to resell than 2 and if they chose to resell a child’s seat before an adults then common sense says the seller will always relist the adults seats before relisting the kids but please do not believe them when they say that they resell every ticket on the exchange before 11am on match day