Man Utd fans 'disappointed' at season ticket price increase

Manchester United play summons prices volition summation by astir 5% for the 3rd successive twelvemonth arsenic the nine aims to go financially sustainable.

The Manchester United Supporters Trust (MUST) says that the summation is "less than galore feared" and determination has been a terms frost for under-16s.

But MUST says United fans person "expressed their disappointment" that the nine has "ignored" the telephone for a wide terms freeze.

Since becoming the club's co-owner past year, Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his Ineos radical person tried amended the club's finances but respective changes person been unpopular, resulting successful instrumentality protests, successful peculiar astatine past week's location crippled with Arsenal.

Some of the latest changes for the 2025-26 play see the instauration of a crippled categorisation exemplary for non-season summons holders, wherever premium games outgo more.

United are besides expanding the minimum usage request for play summons holders from 15 to 16 of their 19 Premier League location games.

United's main enforcement Omar Berrada says the nine "worked hard to travel up with a pricing bundle that is just and reasonable" and that the caller changes are being made "to offset continued rises successful operating costs".

However, MUST says that "we neglect to spot immoderate justification for the increase" and that the caller categorisation exemplary is "a root of large concern".

A MUST connection read: "For respective months we person argued agelong and hard that the nine request to look astatine the large representation and frost summons prices for adjacent season.

"Other clubs person done that already and astatine United it would person sent a almighty connection astir the request for everyone to propulsion unneurotic to get the nine retired of the precise hard presumption it finds itself in."

Berrada said: "We recognize that immoderate terms emergence is unwelcome, particularly during a play of under-performance connected the pitch, and we listened cautiously to the beardown arguments enactment guardant by the FAB (Fan Advisory Board) successful favour of a freeze.

"However, the nine has decided it would not beryllium close to support prices unchanged portion costs emergence and the nine continues to look fiscal issues.

"We person kept the summation to the lowest imaginable level and protected our youngest play summons holders from immoderate rises, portion ensuring the nine remains financially beardown capable to put successful improving the team."

After freezing play summons prices for 11 years, United are present expanding them for a 3rd consecutive year.

This comes aft a second circular of redundancies astatine the nine was announced past month, and determination was a mid-season rise successful immoderate summons prices to £66, with nary concessions. Other cost-cutting measures including the removal of escaped lunches for staff.

Ratcliffe has said the decisions are indispensable successful bid to slash losses, which past twelvemonth exceeded £113m, and last week helium told the BBC Sport "the nine runs retired of wealth astatine Christmas if we don't bash those things".

The latest play summons changes correspond an mean summation of £2.50 per game.

Ratcliffe told the BBC: "Well, I don't get progressive successful the item of summons pricing. That's for the absorption of the club, not for maine really.

"My benignant of wide principles connected summons pricing are that it should beryllium fair, affordable for the radical successful Manchester.

"We bash request to look aft the under-16s and the older radical who bash not person arsenic overmuch money, but astatine the aforesaid clip summons income is portion of the wide income of the club.

"The nine receives income from ticketing, from merchandising and from TV. They are each large components of however overmuch wealth we person to walk connected caller players and the squad."

The instauration of a crippled categorisation model, positive the summation successful play summons prices and the minimum usage request arsenic conscionable immoderate of the latest changes: