How the Bundesliga puts the Premier League to shame

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I was looking through the web and i strolled across this blog on the observer and i thought i would share it with the rest of you.

Personally after reading this article i would love the premier league to change to this, for me watching football isn't about winning but watching a fun attacking game with your mates and not spending a fortune.

In Germany the fan is king. The Bundesliga has the lowest ticket prices and the highest average attendance of Europe's five major leagues. At Borussia Dortmund their giant stand holds 26,000 and costs little more than £10 for admission. Clubs limit the number of season tickets to ensure everyone has a chance to see the games, and the away team has the right to 10% of the available capacity. Match tickets double as free rail passes with supporters travelling in a relaxed atmosphere in which they can sing, drink beer to wash down their sausages, and are generally treated as desirables: a philosophy English fans can only dream of.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/apr/11/bundesliga-premier-league

What are your ideas on this?
 
excellent idea and the clubs would probably get the same amount of money that they lose due to ticket price drops in areas such as merchandise sales
 
it is a great idea but god knows how you would ever get any clubs in the premier league to agree to it
 
the german way of football on and off the field are years ahead of the english im afraid.
 
Would be great if the Premier League could integrate that,but harder for the clubs to implement it,as they would be more stubborn to put it in.

Especially the big four.

Not to mention that a team like Arsenal would be making around £60million less profit in ticket sales,despite them having the potential to pack out their stadium season in,season out.
 
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It's been some time since I've being hearing really good things about Bundesliga and how they organize all the league, the matches and so.
 
good idea to lower prices but id rather see my team winning.... by any means necessary so going to matches for fun... it aint fun if your team (LFC) aint winning and i know this cus liverpool lost alot last year haha ! :)
 
dortmunds compasity is actually a little less than 82 000 ppl so get ur **** straight
 
I think this would be implemented by the Football League because I doubt most Premier League teams could adhere to something like this.

Playoff contenders could benefit from this too,not only making good profit,but also packing out their stadiums and getting good support from their home fans everytime they play infront of them.They could use that to their advantage when they are running into the final 10 games of the season.
 
madrid1pl said:
dortmunds compasity is actually a little less than 82 000 ppl so get ur **** straight
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Get your spelling and reading straight. It says stand, not stadium.
 
Been banging the drum for clubs to look at the Bayern model for a long time.

One of the things to pay particular attention to is how the 'business' and the 'football' sides are split off and how they get top, top businessmen to run their business side with former players who are adept at business used to bridge the two sides.

One major problem with Bayern's system is that, personally, I think it puts too much power in the hands of one man. In their case, Der Kaiser himself. Don't think that will work for every club, never mind really working for Bayern properly.

It's certainly a model for clubs which fall into the hands of supporters to consider. I'm unashamedly very pro-fan ownership, even if I appreciate that this is currently on the outer limits of realistically happening in the forseeable future for teams which don't go bust.
 
This makes me want to move to Germany. A bit fed up of feeling exploited when I go and watch football.
 
Not really up to date with finances in the Bundesliga - but aren't they regarded as being among the most finanically secure teams/league in all of europe? You can get away with 10pound admission when you've got funds but when you are in debt and reliant on matchday income to prop up the bottom line it's a different story
 
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