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Gunners are set to introduce a 19-game season ticket next term

Arsenal’s rivals are freezing their ticket prices

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Arsenal are increasing ticket prices for next season.

Tickets will rise by 3.7 per cent and the decision comes in the wake of other clubs, such as Brentford and Liverpool, freezing theirs.

The club’s most recent accounts showed how they made a loss last season and the wage bill rose by 40 per cent.

Arsenal will keep concessions, which was one of the requests of the the Football Supporters’ Association (FSA).

The FSA recently wrote to the Premier League urging them to support a ticket price freeze across all clubs next season.

Fans of some Premier League clubs, although admittedly not Arsenal, have protested over ticket prices this season.

Arsenal will introduce a 19-game season ticket next season, which was one of the suggestions put forward by the Arsenal Supporters’ Trust (AST). The AST had also called for the club to freeze ticket prices.

The 19-game season ticket will see fans pay £386 less than they would have done this season.

The AST, when proposing the suggestion, believed this would reduce the up front cost of a season ticket, enable those who struggle to attend evening games to have the option not to purchase a full season ticket and increase the supply of tickets available for silver and red members to purchase for cup games.

Ticketing discussions are part of conversations held by the Arsenal Advisory Board, which has elected supporter representatives from different groups.

Meetings also included representatives from the club, with executive vice-chair Tim Lewis, managing director Richard Garlick and chief commercial officer Juliet Slot all present at one earlier this season.

This year, Arsenal will be celebrating 40 years of Arsenal in the Community and to mark the occasion for the new season, the club will ensure tickets remain accessible for the local community. 1,000 tickets will be available free of charge across the season.