{"id":474657,"date":"2026-02-17T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474657\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:39:08","slug":"arsenal-to-raise-season-ticket-prices-by-3-9-have-safe-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474657\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal to raise season ticket prices by 3.9% &#038; have safe standing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a>, who will still offer 1,000 free tickets to the local community for the 2026-27 season, say the season ticket price increases are partly a reflection of rising operational matchday costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> already have one of the most expensive season tickets in the Premier League and received the third-highest amount of income from gate receipts in the 2023-24 season (\u00a3127m), behind only Real Madrid (\u00a3153m) and Paris St-Germain (\u00a3139m).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We firmly believe that with the football sector benefiting from ever-increasing broadcast and commercial revenues it is time to stop squeezing match-going supporters so hard,&#8221; the AST said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Neither the Premier League nor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> have seriously engaged with the idea that a freeze at all clubs would help stop the &#8216;arms race&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Gunners will also introduce safe standing after &#8220;extensive consultation and engagement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From next season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> say there will be &#8220;standing rails in areas where we know our supporters stand&#8221; in the Clock End&#8217;s lower tier. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The North Bank lower tier will follow suit from the start of the 2027-28 season &#8211; which will mean there will be about 13,500 supporters, including away fans, in licensed standing areas at the Emirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal, who will still offer 1,000 free tickets to the local community for the 2026-27 season, say the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-474657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}