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Fans waiting for the release of the 2024/25 Newcastle United memberships.
The only way to get tickets for home matches if you don’t have a season ticket, unless you go down the corporate route.
A lot of debate last season on the Newcastle United memberships, as the club made major changes.
The 2022/23 season saw tickets for each home match go on sale online at an in advance advertised date and time, where you were allocated a place in the queue and if high enough up in that queue, when you got your turn at the front you could buy tickets if there were any left. A capped limit on the number of Newcastle United memberships sold, also gave fans the reassurance that they had at least a decent chance of getting a ticket on a number of occasions if buying a membership.
However, last (2023/24) season saw the club scrap the queue system, instead fans entering a ballot each time. Membership prices significantly raised to £37 for an adult and no limit at all on the number of Newcastle United memberships sold.
With some fans getting tickets every match, whilst some got none at all in any ballot, during the season the club stated every ballot was a new event totally independent of what went before. So whether you had got tickets for all of the last ten home matches, or whether you hadn’t got a single ticket despite entering all ten ballots, it made no difference, the club saying all members having same chance in each new ballot.
Other aspects proved highly frustrating for Newcastle United members.
The Newcastle United owners refusing to allow fans to know how many Newcastle United memberships had been sold, refusing to say how many members entered each individual ballot, refusing to say how many tickets were available in each ballot to members. This is despite other clubs, such as Arsenal, being totally transparent with numbers of members entering each ballot and how many tickets had been allocated for each ballot.
With widespread reports of the number of Newcastle United memberships having been well over the 100,000 figure and possibly as many as 150,000. If those figures are on the money, then NUFC members outnumbering the 31,000 or so season ticket holders by somewhere over three to one and potentially as much as five to one.
The lack of transparency from the Newcastle United owners was just woeful, at the very least those buying Newcastle United memberships need to know as a minimum how many others have already bought memberships and then for each ballot, how many had entered and how many tickets allocated for that match ballot.
Anyway, for 2024/25 Newcastle United memberships, fans wondering what, if any, changes will be made.
On Tuesday, the club have confirmed that the Newcastle United memberships for next season will go on sale on Friday (14 June 2024).
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Also, the indication is that as well as normal UK Junior and Adult memberships, there will be a new more expensive membership offering extra ‘benefits’.
Much speculation as to exactly what these ‘benefits’ could be but a ‘leaked’ image of the alleged new Newcastle United memberships and benefits has been circulating online…
All eyes on Friday then, to see if this is indeed the range of benefits and prices for 2024/25 Newcastle United memberships.
As ever with these things, is that the devil will be in the detail.
So are the Newcastle United owners going to change their approach and do things differently when balloting (I can’t see them changing from a ballot system) tickets match after match, to ensure a fairer system to prevent some fans ending up with no tickets at all despite entering ballots regularly?
(I also don’t see them putting any caps on the number of Newcastle United memberships sold either)
Just as (more?) importantly, will the NUFC hierarchy allow any transparency at all this coming season, letting fans know gow many memberships have been sold, how many tickets available in each ballot, how many members entering each ballot?
The club have all that information available at a touch of a button, so just a case of whether or not willing to show that transparency.

 
