Man United have announced plans to increase the price of season tickets for the 2025/26 season.
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The price of season tickets will rise at Old Trafford for 2025/26.
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The Manchester United Supporters' Trust (MUST) has responded to the club's decision to increase season ticket prices for the 2025/26 season by five per cent.
United announced on Monday afternoon that season ticket prices for next season are set to rise of around £2.50 per game, though it has been confirmed prices for Under-16s have been frozen.
Senior concessions will now all be offered at 25 per cent off, rather than some getting a 50 per discount as in previous years. It has also been confirmed that a senior ticket will now be moved in line with the state pension age of 66.
United have said they have been left with little choice but to increase ticket prices. United have also confirmed they will be introducing a game categorisation system for match-by-match tickets, with each Premier League fixture at Old Trafford set to be placed into a designated category to gauge the price of a single match ticket.
MUST has criticised that decision, demanding United put a "strict cap" in place for the number of games that will be placed in a higher category.
In a statement MUST said: "For several months we have argued long and hard that the club need to look at the big picture and freeze ticket prices for next season. Other clubs have done that already and at United it would have sent a powerful message about the need for everyone to pull together to get the club out of the very difficult position it finds itself in.
"We do note that the scale of the headline increase is less than many feared and we believe the enormous amounts of dialogue that fans groups have had with the club, alongside the public pressure exerted through the media and various protests, helped restrain the increase.
"However, the new match categorisation model for non-season ticket holders is a source of major concern with fans facing additional price increases for higher-demand games. We call for a strict cap on the number of games that will be placed in the higher price categories.
"We also need to work to understand the detailed impacts of the seat moves and terms and conditions changes being made. In particular, we fail to see any justification for the increase in season ticket holder minimum usage requirement.
"The devil is so often in the detail, and any changes of this kind should always be carried out with full consultation with those affected."