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Yea I think it would be 30+ for sure

We need Deasy (the creator of this thread) to come back as I think Deasy worked it out, by somehow finding out how many ST's were sold in each stand of the stadium and then adding them up. Not sure how to do it though

This question also goes out to the post above yours, but care to explain why you believe the cap would be at the levels you suggest? Especially when an article indicates our cap was about 26,000 just a few seasons ago

I would have just thought they would have wanted to have as many people as they could in VP, I don't see the point in restricting the numbers to as you say 26k when they don't know whether they will sell 16k tickets on match day. I think on a match day they could probably sell 11/12k tickets, but not 16. So why wouldn't they up the cap to make sure VP is as full as possible. It also means more money for the club surely? Being season ticket holders, who pay more money.

Also I think a lot of other clubs try and sell as many season tickets as they can, if Spurs' cap is 24k ish, with their capacity at 36k thats still 12k tickets left and being a club like Spurs they can definitely sell 12k tickets on a match day, where as I don't think we can sell 16k. I know its probably more like 14/15k we have to sell because of the away fans allocation, but I don't think we can sell that. Which would make me think they would up the allocation for Season ticket holders.

To be fair though, we are all speculating and really have no idea, only the club know and I doubt they will be willing to tell us :P

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This question also goes out to the post above yours, but care to explain why you believe the cap would be at the levels you suggest? Especially when an article indicates our cap was about 26,000 just a few seasons ago

The cap would be around 80% of stadium capacity which would be around 34k.

There is no reason to have a low cap unless you sell out every game and have a high demand for season tickets (waiting list.)

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I would have just thought they would have wanted to have as many people as they could in VP, I don't see the point in restricting the numbers to as you say 26k when they don't know whether they will sell 16k tickets on match day. I think on a match day they could probably sell 11/12k tickets, but not 16. So why wouldn't they up the cap to make sure VP is as full as possible. It also means more money for the club surely? Being season ticket holders, who pay more money.

The cap would be around 80% of stadium capacity which would be around 34k.

There is no reason to have a low cap unless you sell out every game and have a high demand for season tickets (waiting list.)

Whilst ST holders are very essential so are the occasional fans, occasional fans spend much more per match than your average ST Holder. Your ST holder will drink away from the ground and not buy anywhere near as much merchandise / food as an occasional fan for whom the match is more of an event than the fan who goes every week. Also you don't build support by excluding everyone without a ST from the ground either, as more occasional fans can access the ground the more of a following a club will build. Something Man Utd understood and Liverpool never did.

Also ST holders if demand for tickets is high will pay far less per match for their ticket. Clubs need to find the correct balance but selling all the home seats to ST holders per season is not very sensible economics for many reasons.

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Presumably the club has to allow for cup games in terms of season ticket holder numbers - the away team can claim 15% of capacity (about 6400) , then there's the hospitality and corporate and media and executive seats to allow for, so maybe another couple of thousand, leaving around 34000 or 35000 ish for "normal" home fans to buy. Of those they will want to have some available for people who can't afford a season ticket, maybe 4000 - so I guess any cap would be at around 31 or 32,000 tops to allow for all those things?

Looking on the OS for ticket availability in every block for the Everton game gives these numbers


Witton Lane Stand block by block, available/not available
127/503
18/211
87/494
65/503
107/493
352/502
0/216
149/522
68/522
149/522
285/522
437/727

=1844/4693 = 2849 sold

Away fans and segregation
523, 824, 484 (lower) = 1831
219, 414, 738, 225 (upper)= 1596


Holte
0/117 - not for sale due to no view
531/1071
530/1232
309/1232
201/1232
380/1232
238/1025
0/333
118/476
641/891
447/891
178/986
358/1017
503/897
159/399

4596/13031 = 8435 not available for sale

Trinity
0/265
193/365
115/354
25/342
3/236
7/236
29/342
73/329
0/184
0/208
0/781
30/614
100/570
10/365
84/617
234/645
235/540
451/723
100/693
109/664
148/717
28/708
224/694
317/447

=2515/11639 = 9124 not available

North stand
215/570
571/1002
220/664
369/692
392/796
55/144
132/384
79/339
163/416
105/416
192/415
154/349

=2647/5771 = 3124 sold

Club area in Trinity - no numbers shown
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Which works out as 23414 seats taken for the game as of tonight. Most of those will be season tickets and it excludes the corporate season tickets and board seats in the posh bit of the Trinity as well as the various boxes in the North stand, which they presumably count in season ticket numbers.

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Presumably the club has to allow for cup games in terms of season ticket holder numbers - the away team can claim 15% of capacity (about 6400)

I doubt it, season ticket holders are not entitled to a ticket for cup games.

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Presumably the club has to allow for cup games in terms of season ticket holder numbers - the away team can claim 15% of capacity (about 6400)

I doubt it, season ticket holders are not entitled to a ticket for cup games.

That just about sums you up.

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if we manage to get 28k i'll be dead happy!

Deasy come back and figure it out for us pls :(

It was worked out when you could still buy seasons tickets online.

this upsets me.

any guesses for the attendance of the first home game?

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Went in today to pick my Peterborough ticket up. There was about 10-15 people all filling forms out for season tickets. Bet you wouldn't see sights like that with "you know who" still in charge.

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