While the British government decides what its strategy to combat the Coronavirus virus is this week, the economy is in free-fall with so many businesses being forced into making life destroying redundancies. Football is merely another business sector that is experiencing horrific losses that affect real people. Forget the players, I’m talking about the hundreds of non-playing personnel who cannot be offered any hours, because the club is largely in traction.
Both Piers Morgan & Gary Lineker were struggling to get their heads around how come the London Palladium was supposedly ‘safe’ for an event a few days ago, and yet outdoor football terraces remain too dangerous to contemplate, according to The Sun.
Tottenham are currently losing £3million on match days, which makes them the fourth worst hit side in the top flight. This is, of course just the high flyers from the English game, and the picture further down the food chain must be even worse given the lack of resources.
The nation needs a better plan.
😂 these figures are unreliable methinks…
Agree and how comes le arss makes more ? More posh seats and more expensive burgers. Amazing the difference from top to bottom , I respect sheff Utd even more now.
It’s revenue collected on the day at the stadium, including all ticket sales and catering. TV monies are in the broadcasting category. I think advertising is counted in the commercial category.
Manchester United have 18% more seats than us so in order to make the difference up on them, we need to make more than 18% more per seat than them. Given london pricing, the hospitality opportunities at the stadium and our catering operation I would assume this is pretty easy to achieve.
How do you define match day income, is it solely revenue generated on the day ie, hospitality, alcohol, pies, meals, snacks beverages, Superstore sales, or does it include Sky/BT monies, perimeter advertising, rental from corporate boxes and other things I can’t even think of?
To be fair to the Sun that was the only data they had available to them. And more to the point, we haven’t got to the point where we’re spending all the extra stadium income, so we can’t miss what we never had right?!
6 league games and 2 champions league games unless I’m mistaken? 🤔 something like that anyways…
I get my data for this stuff from the annual report which is freely available, but an easier and reliable lookup is the Swiss ramble which is an excellent blog I’m sure you’re aware of.
https://twitter.com/swissramble/status/1245594271731691528?s=21
See the match day rev here for the latest figures available which is 2018/19 season. The figure is £81.7m, the same as the sun article above. This season had 6 matches at our new stadium and the rest at Wembley.
Gotta link, mate?
I see, thanks.
Only when we see data for a full season with fans present at the new stadium will we really know what the figure is. I’d guess it’s between 4-5m.
They don’t. The Sun’s data is poor, lazy everything you’d expect from the Sun. the data is from last available financial data which includes Wembley.
How do arsenal make more income than us? Our stadium has higher capacity and we’ve been in the CL until this season. Are their pies more expensive as they come from south of the river maybe.