FC Halifax Town season tickets go on sale for 2020-21 campaign

FC HALIFAX Town season tickets for the 2020-21 campaign have gone on sale.

Adult season tickets will go up in price from £199 to £299, which works out at £13 a game, but season tickets for children aged between 12 and 17 will stay at £75, which works out at £3.26 a game.

Defending the increase in price, the club said there wasn’t enough of a take up of last year’s season ticket offer to warrant maintaining the £199 price, and was “a risk we cannot afford to take again”.

The club will be offering three free season tickets for children under 12 with every adult season ticket purchased, while on the day prices will remain the same, which are £20 for adults, £17 for concessions, £9 for 12-17 year olds, £5 for under 12s and £3 for under 7s.

The club said: “These are certainly unprecedented times, and while we continue to hope the current 2019/20 season isn’t over yet, we must turn our attention towards the next campaign.

“We’re doing everything we can to steer the football club through very choppy waters and we need to keep going as best we can. We understand a resolution to our 2019/20 season involving play-off matches could potentially delay the start of the 2020/21 campaign – we’re sure the landscape will become clearer over the coming weeks.

“When we are in partial lockdown and with people suffering with the Covid virus, there is never going to be a great time to make this announcement.

“We’re doing this now to allow those who wish to pay through the instalment plan, every bit of notice and opportunity.

“Unfortunately, the sales level for last season’s £199 ticket was not as successful as we had hoped for. We can understand partly the reasons but the demand, even at just over £8 per game wasn’t deemed value enough to attract more regular fans to commit up front. Simply, it was not financially viable for the football club and a risk we cannot afford to take again.

“This season’s increase is necessary to enable us to continue to have a competitive playing budget whilst endeavouring to’ live within our means’. Let’s also say our costs are increasing all the time over a wide range of expense areas. We appreciate that the financial back-drop has changed for everyone and we’ll all be facing our own personal challenges. However we have to protect the interests of your football club and continue to run the club with longevity in mind.

“Please do your best to support us and help the club push forward.”