Opening championship match(es) no longer included as part of season ticket
What is the thinking there?
He called them Ben and Jerry, he took the soup very quickly.
Special championship packages 
The GAA can confirm its full schedule of central level ticket prices for the 2024 Allianz Leagues competitions.
Divisions 1 and 2 of the Allianz Football League and Division 1 of the Allianz Hurling League will be priced at €20 per match and student/OAP tickets will be €15. Divisions 3 and 4 in Football matches will be €12 with student/OAP tickets at €10. Entry to Allianz Division 2 & 3 Hurling matches will cost €10 with student/OAP tickets €8.
Juveniles Under 16 will be free of charge for Allianz Leagues fixtures, except for reserved seating fixtures and selected fixtures where capacity is a concern.
New League Packages are on sale with full and flexible match packages available. These packages can be purchased on www.gaa.ie/tickets
Tickets for the Allianz Division 1 & 2 League Finals will be €30. Entry to Division 3 & 4 Finals will be €25.
Football Season Tickets will be €150 and Hurling Season Tickets will be €140. A GAA Season Ticket covers all Allianz League fixtures for your chosen county, Allianz League finals and semi-finals, AIB All-Ireland Club Finals, guaranteed access to your county’s championship fixtures and access to an All-Ireland Final ticket should your county reach the Final and you have met the qualification criteria. Club Plus Season Tickets, which includes club fixtures within your chosen county, will remain at €250.
The opening championship match(es) will no longer be included as part of the Season Ticket. However, the Association will have details of special Championship packages available in the New Year.
Once again, tickets will not be sold at venues in 2024. All tickets must be purchased in advance on gaa.ie/tickets or in selected SuperValu and Centra stores.
Allianz League Packages
• Division 1 & 2 Football: 7 matches for €100. A saving of €40
4 matches for €65. A saving of €15
• Division 3 & 4 Football: 7 matches for €60. A saving of €24
4 matches for €40. A saving of €8
• Division 1 Hurling: 5 matches for €75. A saving of €25
3 matches for €50. A saving of €10
Some clear anomalies here with this new pricing structure.
For €140 in hurling you get all your league games. This could mean just five matches if you don’t reach a semi final and final (and assuming you’re not going to the club final or league final). So €28 a head potentially. And that’s if you actually attend all five matches. No championship matches included.
So you’ve season ticket holders possibly paying €28 per game in the league while someone who doesn’t have a season ticket can go on and get the bundle of 5 matches for €75 (€15 a head).
The only real advantage of the season ticket now is the guarantee of an AI final ticket should you purchase for five championship matches. Bar that it’s not great value at all really.
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They essentially want people to stop purchasing them.
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Probably useful for away games to Clare and Waterford as well as there is a guaranteed ticket there if you want one - you’d imagine demand will exceed supply for Ennis next year anyway.
But yeah removing the free ticket for the opening match seriously devalues it.
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Outrageous
Dubs and Mayo football and Limerick hurling about the only worth holding onto really given demand? You are paying more than just rocking up, that’s assuming you make all the league games (without making a league final) and no Champo freebie.
Interested to see what their championship special is, but expecting it to be only for teams who don’t sell out their normal season ticket, i.e. the three above
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I’ve had one for the last couple of seasons. Great value initially, but it’s been watered down bit by bit for the last few years, to the point where it is now cheaper to rock up on the day.
There must be some magical financial model the beancounters in Jones Road are working with to come up this, otherwise they’re just fucking over the supporters for the sake of it.
Anyway I won’t be renewing. If by some miracle we get to the All Ireland I’d be confident enough of getting sorted.
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Are the league tickets up on Ticketmaster so I can download them? I renewed it a few weeks ago but don’t see any games when I log in
Not as far as I could see.
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Has the fixture list been announced?
And I’m going on the seething thread now, because the price of tickets is increasing at such a rate. I wouldn’t mind, but it eventually ends up in the pockets of spoofers like some sports psychology cod bollox, without which teams feel they can’t compete, when in fact it’s a load of tripe for the feeble minded.
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Or worse, to pay for PUIC.
https://twitter.com/MikeMoynihanEx/status/1741896130537857094?t=13tcz0T6ZH0pAorqqSlutQ&s=19
There’s a latent seethe off this
Cooraclare is a grand place to watch a match. Is PJ McGuane still involved there? A big football man in his day
PJ will be involved as long as he is standing above soil, the epitome of a life-long Gah administrator. Game is switched to Clarecastle’s swanky new astro now incidentally
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