• ‘We are discussing a whole range of options,’ says Richard Scudamore • Premier League will not get involved in influencing prices of home tickets

The Premier League chief executive, Richard Scudamore, says top-flight clubs are discussing changes to away-ticket pricing for next season but that home prices will not be subjected to league intervention.

Last week the Football Supporters’ Federation submitted an open letter to the Premier League before its shareholders meeting, calling for a £20 cap on all away tickets following a “Twenty’s plenty” campaign demanding reduced prices. Earlier this season supporters from each top-flight club held aloft banners at matches supporting the campaign.

The Premier League has introduced an Away Supporters Initiative, which reserves £12m of central funding over three years for club-led initiatives, with some clubs reducing away prices and using the money to subsidise away travel. However, the amount is only £200,000 per club, per season, and the league’s £5.1bn domestic TV money for three years will start from next season.

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Scudamore said: “We do think we probably have a role to play about away tickets. Away ticketing is rather unique, home fans pay a season-ticket price whereas away fans have to pay a single match price 19 times even though a lot of them are consistent, regular away fans. They do have a specific and unique role to play in football.

“Therefore we are having discussions with clubs now about some sort of pervasive away-ticket initiative. Now clubs each invest £200,000 on their away fans going away. We are looking with the clubs at the minute to try to see if there is something more pervasive, something wider and broader. For next season. We are discussing a whole range of options.”

Scudamore – speaking at an event promoting the Premier League’s positive impact on the UK economy alongside the business secretary, Sajid Javid – defended the league’s stance of not intervening in home ticket prices, arguing the process would be too complex.

“No I don’t think it’s our responsibility to regulate it,” he said. “The economics of each club are very complex. You could literally measure on one hand the clubs whose ticket pricing you might probably think is a challenge for most people. When you actually get into the reality of it most clubs are working very hard to keep the grounds full.

“What a lot of the clubs in the regions are having to do, as opposed to some of the more privileged clubs in London, is very complex. The problem we have is there is almost no way of coming up with anything that makes any sense centrally because it’s a local economic issue.

“ Even if you said: ‘We think it would be desirable for every ticket price to be x’, there are immediately winners and losers in all of that. We don’t feel we have a central role in terms of home ticket prices because of the local economics – some clubs have got 42 different price points.”