Liverpool FC have responded to supporters’ recent protests against ticket price rises, saying that they do not plan to change their stance.
Liverpool recently announced that ticket prices will increase for the next three years, with standard admission forecast to go up by between £3 and £4.50 per person over that period.
It means the club, which cites rising operational costs for the decision, can increase prices for the next three seasons without any dialogue with supporters, raising roughly an extra £1.2 million next year.
Protests have ensued as a result, but the club have since said they will not back down.
In a letter to the Liverpool FC Supporters Board, Chief Legal and External Affairs Officer Jonathan Bamber said: “We have not been able to reach a shared outcome on this occasion, and the Club has now confirmed the planned ticket pricing approach for the next three seasons.”
He did add, though, that the club could be open to review the position in the next three years if the ’12th man sponsorship idea’, proposed by the supporters board, were to reach a successful outcome.
Bamber explained: “We also want to be clear that the door remains open to continued dialogue.
“As confirmed in our communications to supporters, the Club will review its position at the end of the three-year period and will engage with the Supporters Board accordingly, as part of our ongoing and legally binding relationship.
As we have previously stated, we are also ready to continue to explore your commercial ideas, like the 12th Man sponsorship, following our meeting on 1 April, if this is something you remain open to working together on.
We want to share with supporters, in the spirit of the transparency the club wishes to champion, our letter to them and their reply.
We strongly disagree with the portrayal of our discussions and the characterisation of this as ‘some supporters’.
We will follow up on next steps pic.twitter.com/kpjQzfpkrv
— Liverpool FC Supporters Board (@_lfcsb) April 18, 2026
“As we have discussed, if any of these ideas were to progress to a successful outcome within the three-year period, we would obviously review our position at that time.”
The ’12th man sponsorship’ idea would see a brand or company sponsor the club and effectively pay for the £1.2m that would have been earned in ticket price rises.
What now?
Fans withdrew flags and banners from the Kop against Fulham; this will continue until the club come to the negotiating table, as will the boycotting of club-sold food and drink at Anfield.
The Supporters Board, which is legally enshrined in the club’s Articles of Association, have now said: “Supporters have been clear. The club has chosen to ignore that.
“Next steps will now be discussed, with action to follow at upcoming matches.”
Spirit of Shankly’s Gareth Roberts told This Is Anfield last week that action will escalate.
“There are various options being discussed and being mentioned, so there’s walk out, there’s come in late, there’s stay on the concourse, there’s stay downstairs for You’ll Never Walk Alone and don’t be part of such a big part of fan culture at Liverpool.
“So we’ll see really, but ideally what we’d like and what we’d keep saying is just come back and talk to us again, because three years in particular is unacceptable.”