Man City fans oppose the partnership with the Viagogo ticket office site
The groups asked the supporters to boycott the nine minutes of opening of the City Premier League match against Leicester City on April 2nd and remaining in the atrium of the stadium to demonstrate that “football without fan is nothing”.
The declaration states that the city has yet to respond to Open letter signed by seven groups of supporters of the city On ticket prices seven weeks ago.
The announcement of Viagogo comes with City to confirm the prices of the season tickets for the 2025-26 season.
The representatives of the Consultative Committee for City City Questions fans shocked for several weeks because the club did not engage in discussions on the prices of subscriptions. An extraordinary meeting was scheduled for Thursday 3 April.
“Signing a ninth partnership with a ticket resale platform is incredibly deaf, given the strength of concern,” said the city to the City Under-25s representative Alex Howell BBC Sport.
“This is without reference to the well -based concerns about the diffusion of prices and the collaboration with this particular operator.”
City has approved resale agreements with eight different companies, while Viagogo is an official partner and therefore has further promotional and advertising rights.
“Many clubs manage their demanding internal ticket offices that allow supporters to transmit tickets to each other at the nominal value,” said BBC Sport of the BBC Sport.
“Why does some clubs have to involve a third -party company whose only reason for existence is to increase prices and profit from the Matchgoers?
“It is instinctively unfair for clubs to penalize supporters for having transmitted tickets to the value of friends or family while approaching these companies”.
At the beginning of this season, City fans took part in national events on the prices of tickets organized by the FSA.
City states that the tickets sold on Viagogo will come from the existing allocation of tickets for hospitality, will be subject to a fixed price limit and will not be subject to dynamic ticket prices.
In 2021 the United Kingdom competition looked at the competition and the authority of the markets stated that tickets for reselling tickets such as Viagogo should face closer rules.
At the beginning of this year, the government of the United Kingdom launched a public consultation in order to limit resale ticket prices.
In 2023 the head of Viagogo Cris Miller told the BBC that many fans actually prefer to buy on Viagogo instead of buying tickets directly for events and that the company provides a “safe and safe transaction”.
City refused to provide a statement when it was contacted by BBC Sport.
The BBC Sport contacted Viagogo for further comments.
