New Everton Stadium

[grahamando]

There's about 4750 seats left available for selection as of now for a ST. ~1150 of these are in the Family Enclosure. These numbers haven't changed much at all over the last week or so, which is to be expected as all the people with 5+ OM's who are currently eligible to purchase would have done so by now. This will roughly be the number of seats available post 31 March.

Unless the club have held back a large number of seats specifcally for match-by-match purchase, and have not made them available to buy as STs (which I would be very surprised if they have done), then I doubt that they will want many, if any, more sold as STs. They will make much more money selling them on a match-by-match basis, and judging by the current numbers of available seats to buy as STs, it would suggest the capacity to STH ratio is already higher than I thought they'd go.

Or I may be chatting complete wham, which wouldn't surprise me either.

As quoted a lot of pages back, the numbers are

Standard home seats
43,880
Premium seats
5,334
Box seats
448
Away seats
2,968
Non revenue seats
258
Total capacity
52,888

Given I reckon match by match figures at Goodison can’t be many more than 1,500-2,000 (at very very best) even if they double that I’d say there’s still a lot of scope to increase season ticket numbers

 

[davek]

Anyone else think the club are missing a trick with just plain blue seats - would be good to see EFC or Everton marked out in white.

I think this all hinges on securing sponsors names.

 

[Lee Smith]

Whereas there are 4750 seats available for STs, does that mean any from within that total not taken up by 31/3 will still automatically be ST seats and thus certainly offered to the people at the top of the waiting list? In other words, are they 4750 Season Ticket seats, or just 4750 available seats?

There is a choice of 4750 seats currently available to buy as a ST to those who currently qualify to purchase one (5+ OM).

What the club decides to do with those seats come 31 March is anyone’s guess. They may keep them all as match-by-match tickets and not drop down the qualifying criteria any further, or they may make some of them available to people with 4+ OM to purchase as a ST.

 

[Lee Smith]

As quoted a lot of pages back, the numbers are

Standard home seats
43,880
Premium seats
5,334
Box seats
448
Away seats
2,968
Non revenue seats
258
Total capacity
52,888

Given I reckon match by match figures at Goodison can’t be many more than 1,500-2,000 (at very very best) even if they double that I’d say there’s still a lot of scope to increase season ticket numbers

Yeah but using the number above of 43,880 “standard home seats”, if there’s only approx 4,750 of those seats currently left (the rest having been bought as STs), that means we’re already at a ~90% STH to Capacity ratio for that seat class. That’s pretty much the ratio we currently have at Goodison, and the club have made it clear that if anything they want that ratio to reduce. So that’s why I can’t see many more people being offered the chance to buy a ST.

Unless of course, as I mentioned in my first post, the club have already held back a number of “standard home seats” for match-by-match purchases, which they didn’t make available to buy as STs, but I doubt they have.

 

[Vintage]

It really shouldn't but for some reason the small s in the sign is really grating me

 

[ManxBlue]

There is a choice of 4750 seats currently available to buy as a ST to those who currently qualify to purchase one (5+ OM).

What the club decides to do with those seats come 31 March is anyone’s guess. They may keep them all as match-by-match tickets and not drop down the qualifying criteria any further, or they may make some of them available to people with 4+ OM to purchase as a ST.

That’s exactly my take on it.

 

[ManxBlue]

Yeah but using the number above of 43,880 “standard home seats”, if there’s only approx 4,750 of those seats currently left (the rest having been bought as STs), that means we’re already at a ~90% STH to Capacity ratio for that seat class. That’s pretty much the ratio we currently have at Goodison, and the club have made it clear that if anything they want that ratio to reduce. So that’s why I can’t see many more people being offered the chance to buy a ST.

Unless of course, as I mentioned in my first post, the club have already held back a number of “standard home seats” for match-by-match purchases, which they didn’t make available to buy as STs, but I doubt they have.

I don’t think the %age of season tickets can be as high as 90%. Premiership rules limit STs to 80% of ground capacity. Perhaps there’s some kind of creative accounting involving the corporates not being ‘season tickets’.

 

[West Side Charlie]

All the years of broken promises, the disappointment, now all gone, and just one more sleep until another load of blues see the stadium for the very first time.
Surreal doesn't do the feeling justice, can't wait.

 

[PhilM]

All the years of broken promises, the disappointment, now all gone, and just one more sleep until another load of blues see the stadium for the very first time.
Surreal doesn't do the feeling justice, can't wait.

They'll thoroughly enjoy the experience, too. I was blown away during the first tese event!

 

[Tom Hughes]

They've definitely held back a good number of GA seats for match-day sales, as they didn't want there to just be upper tier back-rows (and lower tier front rows) left available for those (more expensive) on the day tkts.

Also, a friend of mine is beginning to suffer quite badly from arthritis, but was in one of the later tranches (due to waiting for his son to be eligible). He told the club about his worsening medical condition and his concerns about having to climb too many steps to the only available seats. They invited him down and he was offered seats that he said were definitely not available on the seat map (near a vomitory) in the South Stand.

Maybe they put them aside for less able-bodied people in the later tranches, or maybe they're just part of that bigger number of seats being kept aside for matchday sale only.

I would be surprised if there weren't some match-day tickets set aside for the hospitality sections too. They could probably charge a decent mark-up on those too.

 

[Cjplennon]

They've definitely held back a good number of GA seats for match-day sales, as they didn't want there to just be upper tier back-rows (and lower tier front rows) left available for those (more expensive) on the day tkts.

Also, a friend of mine is beginning to suffer quite badly from arthritis, but was in one of the later tranches (due to waiting for his son to be eligible). He told the club about his worsening medical condition and his concerns about having to climb too many steps to the only available seats. They invited him down and he was offered seats that he said were definitely not available on the seat map (near a vomitory) in the South Stand.

Maybe they put them aside for less able-bodied people in the later tranches, or maybe they're just part of that bigger number of seats being kept aside for matchday sale only.

I would be surprised if there weren't some match-day tickets set aside for the hospitality sections too. They could probably charge a decent mark-up on those too.

I also assumed they held back tickets for GA. But at Goodison to be fair the only tickets available to GA are all the worse ones. So my other half of brain also say that nearly all tickets available were offered to ST purchase and whatever is left will be the only GA.

 

[kiss the crest]

Anyone else think the club are missing a trick with just plain blue seats - would be good to see EFC or Everton marked out in white.

The woman the other day talking about the 2nd test event said there is still a lot to do regarding that before the season starts, as well as sponsorship etc

 

[phil_t98]

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[Lee Smith]

They've definitely held back a good number of GA seats for match-day sales, as they didn't want there to just be upper tier back-rows (and lower tier front rows) left available for those (more expensive) on the day tkts.

Also, a friend of mine is beginning to suffer quite badly from arthritis, but was in one of the later tranches (due to waiting for his son to be eligible). He told the club about his worsening medical condition and his concerns about having to climb too many steps to the only available seats. They invited him down and he was offered seats that he said were definitely not available on the seat map (near a vomitory) in the South Stand.

Maybe they put them aside for less able-bodied people in the later tranches, or maybe they're just part of that bigger number of seats being kept aside for matchday sale only.

I would be surprised if there weren't some match-day tickets set aside for the hospitality sections too. They could probably charge a decent mark-up on those too.

That would make sense Tom, and interesting fact about your friend’s situation.

I assume then if this is the case, that these GA seats that the club are holding back have been taken out of the “available ST” selection incrementally during each new tenure tranche, as it wasn’t obvious (to me at least) that there were large numbers of unselectable seats at the very start of the ST purchasing process.

 

[allen]

That would make sense Tom, and interesting fact about your friend’s situation.

I assume then if this is the case, that these GA seats that the club are holding back have been taken out of the “available ST” selection incrementally during each new tenure tranche, as it wasn’t obvious (to me at least) that there were large numbers of unselectable seats at the very start of the ST purchasing process.

I wonder if they used a randomising algorithm to scatter them around the stadium (in pairs / threes / fours), so they looked organic.

That’d make sense, I think? You’d give a maximum number of options to people buying for individual matches, and wouldn’t cut out huge swathes of the ground for season ticket holders to choose from.