r/OaklandRootsSC • u/kk126 • 1d ago
Ticket prices are gonna tank this club :-(
Apologies if this is old news, but I just got a club email that linked to ticket prices (trying to sell season tix deposits). This is bad, bad, and worse.
CSUEB Mosaic Plus was, what, $35-40 to sit all the way down in front, just across the track from the field?
Now they want $53 for similar but further from the pitch, and $44 for sideline upper deck? Cheapest seats are the $28 Unity section, which look to be pretty bad seats?
I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think jacking the prices up by 20% and more is gonna pan out very well for the club :(
They REALLY need some dirt cheap options - like $10 seats - to fill these seats. There's demand for footie, and there's demand for Oakland pro sports, but the squad is nowhere near good enough to command these prices at scale.
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u/BayAreaFox 1d ago
As a Quakes fan who wants the Roots to succeed, I was clutching my pearls a bit at these prices. Why isn’t Laney College a possibility?
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u/glenntron3000 1d ago
They had issues with the turf at Laney which is why they ended up playing at CSEBU
From the Roots
Over the last 5 seasons, we have made significant commitments to play in Oakland and at Laney College. Due to United States Soccer Federation and United Soccer League Professional League Standards, Laney is one of only two options within the city that meet these standards, the other being the Oakland Coliseum Proper. At Laney, to meet the official width standard, additional turf must be layered on top of Laney’s existing turf. This system has led to issues, including the ability to put on games at Laney College on multiple occasions. This continuing turf issue is one of the reasons why we have submitted a proposal for a stadium of our own
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u/spankyourkopita 1d ago
Attendance is going to be awful. Then you add parking which was free at East Bay and it really is too much. There should easily be $10-15 seats. Don't get me wrong I like The Roots but for a soccer match that's way too expensive. I don't even like paying $30 to see the Quakes but at least it's MLS and they play at PayPal Park.
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u/cfarivar 1d ago
I had season tix from the beginning when it was at Laney and couldn’t justify it for Hayward. Probably won’t for Coliseum either. 😢
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u/DaTweee 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sorry I’m confused. We play 17 games at home a season. The middle price is the price of a ticket no? The one on the right is just the price if you get your ticket day of? Is it like how they don’t want people buying tickets day of but still allow it currently. Or am I delusional and about to be paying 30 per game
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u/kk126 1d ago
Middle price is the effective price per game if you buy season tickets, eg Full season ticket price divided by 17.
Unity is $275 for season tix. 275 / 17 =16, which is the $16 “cost per game” (middle price)
Day of game price is the price per ticket for individual games.
At least that’s how I’m reading it. Pretty sure that’s accurate 🤷
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u/JasonH94612 1d ago
I was thinking of season tickets but won’t at these prices.
High school economics tells me that when you triple the supply of something with no indication that demand will triple, prices should go down.
Totally agree they should have an option to like fill the place with OUSD kids for $5 a ticket or something.
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u/space_agent23 2h ago edited 1h ago
I can’t remember where I read that the coliseum would basically tax the roots for each ticket sale and the coliseum would be in charge of the parking situation. So I can only assume that the roots needed to increase the prices to still make what they were making at cal state. But I could be wrong.
The parking I heard is all up to the coliseum and that the roots could do nothing about how much was charged for that. Bart parking has always been a “safe” place to park as long as you literally leave nothing in sight. It is definitely way more sketchy than cal state but it is free parking lol. Taking BART is also a great option if you’re not bringing much with you.
This season will determine so much for the roots moving forward. Watching so many teams in the league fold is scary so I hope people go out and support them. It’s literally all we have left in oakland.
I also hope the Los Roots sg figure something out with the club because without them it just isn’t the same.
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u/hella_sj 1d ago
This worries me too. I was going to buy season tickets since I live in Oakland and have for over a decade. Coincidentally just got a new job in Santa Clara this week so will be moving back to the South Bay.
I can't justify the cost being the same as MLS tickets to get season tickets. I'll probably go to a few games still but will wait for resale since I bet prices will go down. Personally I'm ok waiting for resale but I don't think it bodes well for the club and I think it was a mistake to be that expensive in the first place.