Hull City scrap season tickets for new monthly membership scheme

The current annual season ticket charge will be scrapped and replaced by a rolling monthly direct debit payment

The KC Stadium, home of Hull City (Getty)

Hull City have announced plans to abolish conventional season tickets and replace them with an Oyster-style membership scheme which they claim will save some supporters up to £282 annually.

The East Yorkshire club unveiled the Earn Your Stripes scheme on Wednesday morning and claimed some supporters could pay £11 per match if they remain in the Championship and as little as £13 if they are promoted to the Premier League.

Ehab Allam, the Tigers’ vice-chairman, said: “For too long, the price of football in this country has been much too high. This new scheme will at least ensure the same cannot be said of Hull.

“The membership scheme is about rewarding the supporters for their fundamental part in this remarkable story and ensuring that, wherever the team start their new campaign, the club and the fans will be doing it together.”

The current annual season ticket charge will be replaced by a rolling monthly direct debit payment which will save some supporters up to 47 per cent of their previous expenditure if the club remain in the second-tier.

The KC Stadium, Hull's home since leaving Boothferry Park in 2002, will be split into five price zones offering a “one price per zone” rate which ranges from the lowest general area fee of £21-per-month to a £51-per-month charge in corporate areas.

Family tickets for two adults and two children will start at £84-per-month. While many will enjoy cheaper prices to follow Hull next season, regardless of their divisional status, other regulars are faced with having to leave seats which they have used for over a decade to avoid price hikes.

It has been revealed that anyone forced to relinquish their seats, however, will be given first priority over new members when tickets go on sale.

Fans who currently hold season tickets in the upper tier of the West Stand, amounting to just under 2,000 people, will be moved elsewhere with the club announcing that section of the 25,586-capacity arena will only be opened for high-demand fixtures.

As part of the statement released on Hull’s official website, Allam added: “From the brink of extinction to the Premier League, an FA Cup final and European football, our story is a script which could never have been written – it’s been nothing short of unbelievable.”