Wolves scrap price hike for child season tickets

Wolverhampton Wanderers person scrapped summons value rises for under-14s and agreed to frost nan costs of big play tickets aft a instrumentality backlash.

The nine announced a bid of value increases for nan 2024-25 season, pinch immoderate tickets up 17% and 1 class of under-14s tickets up 176% from £105 to £290.

Members of nan Wolves 1877 Trust, a group which represents fans, were group to meet connected Wednesday evening to talk nan value rises, and a petition against nan increases has gained astir 15,000 signatures since being launched past week.

Wolves said nine representatives had met pinch nan instrumentality advisory committee and person agreed location will beryllium nary value summation for under-14s successful 2024-25.

The Premier League nine besides guaranteed a frost connected big play summons prices, which will travel into unit for nan 2025-26 campaign, and promised a reappraisal of inferior play summons costs.

"Wolves profoundly worth nan feedback from our supporters and nan domiciled nan instrumentality advisory committee plays successful representing their voices," the nine said., external

"We are committed to ensuring unfastened connection and collaboration arsenic we strive to execute occurrence connected and disconnected nan transportation and we judge our speech reflects our dedication to maintaining a strong, competitory and agreed Wolves family."

The U-turn comes aft Wolves said value rises were basal to raise costs truthful nan nine could enactment competitory successful nan Premier League.

“This year, nan reappraisal showed that our big prices were little than most, while inferior prices were among nan lowest successful nan league," nan nine had written successful a instrumentality Q&A.

"To align much intimately pinch comparable clubs, we decided to summation prices. The accommodation this play intends that minimal increases, aliases moreover value freezes, will beryllium imaginable successful consequent seasons.”

However, an unfastened missive successful nan instrumentality petition opposing nan rises criticised Wolves' "extortionate summation for abnormal and inferior supporters" and urged nan nine "in nan strongest imaginable position to reconsider your attack and pricing strategy to protect this nine for early generations".

Wolves protagonist Alex Moore, from fans' group nan Old Gold Pack, told BBC Radio WM: "It's near galore successful nan fanbase emotion disillusioned, disappointment and angry."