Exactly one week before the start of the Professional League Cup, the
AFA Executive Committee
announced this Thursday the
new costs of general tickets for matches in the different categories of Argentine football
, in which it highlighted the
"popular prices"
that are maintained despite the economic context and considered that it is the
cheapest entertainment in the country
, compared to concerts, cinemas and even streaming series and movie platforms.
The price of Argentine soccer tickets announced by AFA for 2024.
In numbers, First Division matches can be seen from the stands for a minimum of 8,000 pesos and a maximum of 9,900 pesos.
Meanwhile, in the First National the margin will be between 8,000 and 6,450, in the First B 6,450 to 4,950, in the First C and the women's tournament 5,850 to 4,000, and in Futsal matches people will pay between 4,000 and 2,800.
There is also a detail and that is that many of the Professional League clubs have as many subscribers as there are places in their stadiums, so they rarely sell tickets to the general public and only rely on their members.
In that sense, the Professional League issued a statement to highlight that
"in a very complicated stage of our economy, clubs accompany members and spectators with popular prices
. "
"In times of inflationary peaks, stings in the pockets and daily remarking of prices, football clubs once again stand on the same side: that of accompanying the efforts of the member or spectator of our competitions and trying to make the most consumed entertainment lighter. of our country," he noted.
The complete statement from the Professional League
It is common that in Argentina the price, for example, of gasoline, is adjusted regularly and increases from one month to the next at a 70% increase per liter. And that is when this increase is not weekly, as has happened in recent months... On the other hand, football, since August of last year, had not had an increase in the value of its tickets. They were five months of the highest inflation in the last 3 decades, and the cost of tickets did not change. Contrary to what happens with the rest of the consumer products or other variants of the entertainment industry and the practice of sport, football institutions absorb a large part of this shock in order to maintain the closeness of the members. , spectators and fans of the most popular sport in the world and that in our country has become a passion only comparable to religious fanaticism. And when we talk about popularity, the reference is to the meaning of the mass phenomenon, of massiveness (because in our nation the concept of “popular” has been degraded and distorted so much and so extremely that it had become synonymous with bad activity. quality, “berreta” product). To wit: while a fee to access, for example, the services of a gym is around $20,000 to $25,000 per month, the fee for a first division club for the same period varies between $5,000 and $9,500. And in that value, the entities include access to the activities of all the disciplines practiced in the institution, to the facilities and - also - to the 2 (average) home games that their team plays in the month. If you look at it carefully, it turns out that what a member of an institution pays is between 30 and 35% of the value of 2 general tickets and with infinitely superior service. And in this methodology - although they exist in all First Division institutions - the discount for automatic debit and the benefits for family plans are not calculated. The clubs expose their sustainability even at the cost of putting the economic balance of their finances at risk. That, with respect to the advantages of joining an entity.
In reference to the value of the tickets or the football pack itself, both the clubs and the companies that own the rights make great efforts so that the attendance of the product's supporters continues to support football with the label of being the most accessible entertainment of all. . That is undoubtedly. A member of a club enters 2 games per month and all the services of the institution for $9,500 - the highest social fee -, while a 4D movie ticket reaches $7,800, a 2D ticket reaches $5,600 or an average ticket at a theater costs around $8,000 pesos. Not to mention music concerts, which are another boom in the post-pandemic entertainment industry: ticket values range from $30,000 to more than $100,000 if it is an international band. The soccer ticket, it is remembered, reaches $9,900, which is paid only by those people who are not members of the clubs.
The football pack, for its part, has a price of $4,360 and this membership allows you to watch -a minimum- 56 matches per month, at a value of almost $78 per match, with each match being “a premiere” of the weekend, and not a movie. /repeated series, where one pays to watch again. Another part of the entertainment industry, such as applications to watch series and movies, cost around $4,199 pesos on average. Let's compare...
The 28 clubs of the First Division of soccer have aligned themselves and are immersed in a great effort to sustain the identity of Argentine soccer. It is already known that the passion with which this sport is lived in our nation is unique, envied and flattered “in extremis” by athletes, media and international observers. The images of the constant pilgrimages of our fans to all the venues of the World Cup in Qatar or the passionate reception that the Argentine people gave to our world champion team on December 20, 2022 (more than 7 million inhabitants took to the streets to participate in the party, without cracks or partisan divisions), are a registered trademark of our sense of belonging. That is why the containing efforts of the clubs in times of increasing numbers and hit pockets. Because the glorious and beloved Argentine football deserves everyone's effort to move forward, with the identity and belonging that the entire planet recognizes us.