PAISLEY, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 25: Celtic CEO Michael Nicholson during a William Hill Premiership match between St Mirren and Celtic at the SMiSA Stadium, on August 25, 2024, in Paisley, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Williamson/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Celtic fans can get their hands on a ticket to the Glasgow Derby for just £530.
You will have to find a friend willing to pay that sum as well. As a bonus Champions Travel will throw in a twin room in a three star Glasgow hotel to make the ticket a hospitality deal.
Once Season Ticket holders and away tickets are allocated for there are very few left over.
Champions Travel are official partners of Celtic with the Glasgow Derby ticket deal available on their website.
Pricing is in euros for €596 plus a 2.5% booking fee you can have ‘official shortside searing’ which sounds like being behind the goal.
For an extra €69 you can have a Club 67 Lounge seat but there is no mention of a three star hotel in that package.
Packages are also available for the SPFL opener at home to Dundee on August 3 starting at €136.
Clearly Celtic are looking to maximise income on every available match ticket.
For the Glasgow Derby on September 20 there is basically a £450 charge on a ticket that would normally cost under £60. Clearly that profit will be split between Champions Travel and Celtic.
CELTIC CASHING IN ON FANS
The price is likely to vary before the match depending on the number of tickets sold.
It is unlikely that many fans will bite at the £530 price but some will.
As long running sports partners Champions Travel know their business and markets. They regularly advertise on Television. Celtic have the match tickets and from that a partnership is created.
With the impact of the Not Another Penny campaign biting deep into the club accounts tickets are an area that the club can recover money from.
With that in mind you’d think that some effort would be put in to trying to secure a place in the Champions League.
As well as the money directly from UEFA there are around 60,000 tickets to be sold for the four home matches.
Playing Champions League opponents is a guaranteed sell-out allowing the club to release tickets to Champions Travel in greatly increased packages.
The Europa League is a far harder sell. Thursday nights after failing in a Champions League Play Off isn’t an attractive offer.
Last season Celtic played Braga, Sturm Graz, Roma and Utrecht in the Europa League under three different managers.
The 24/25 Annual Report revealed that Michael Nicholson was paid £17,000 a week.
I had a conversation recently with a couple of sevco fans and asked their take on McInnes now being in charge,the reply was,we don’t have any faith in him,but he will bring the STAUNCHNESS back to the klub.
So he ain’t exactly filling them with any expectations.
Can’t thank all u happy clapping pay up front fecking idiots enough for this…….. the board now know for a fact they can do as they please and still make out like bandits because our fans will do f*ck all about it
Boycott now
Wake up ,this financial abuse of the supporters, and they line and say thank you for the privilege of being systematicly fleeced by Desmond and his cabal of corporate greed and austerity fc, and then wonder why they are getting away with it . You are responsible for this abuse by your actions ,have some pride and fight back to save the club from this gang of rats. Stop giving them your money or you are complicit
Why don’t u lot , go never mind the boycott just go . U don’t have a good word to say about the club . Just leave u won’t b missed .
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You, my friend and people like you are a massive part of the problem at Celtic.
You’re a happy clapper who deserves everything that mob dish out.
You make me sick.
Boycott Now.
#notanotherpenny
£ 530.00 to see a Glasgow Derby against a what will be a 14 year and 53 days old team…
I’d rather pay to watch a Clachnacuddin U18 v Celtic U18 friendly to be honest !
It continues to be baffling behaviour from our dysfunctional Board.
IF we can qualify for the CL proper, then a lot of negativity would instantly disappear around the club.
[Not all the negativity of course, but a significant step in the right direction.]
So, the Board should be giving MON the best support possible to achieve that.
But, players aside: has the backroom team been signed up yet…?! 🙁