Football fans in Germany, Spain and Portugal get better value for money from top flight matches than English fans because of the hefty £54 average ticket price to see a Premier League game.



The Premier League has been ranked fourth for giving football fans value for money, according to the GoEuro Football Price Index and Onefootball, which calculates the results by combining average game costs and league ranking.

England’s worldwide league ranking, based on data from Uefa, Fifa and others, is three, but its ticket prices push it to fourth for overall value, one slot below Portugal. This is because to watch a game in Portugal’s Primeira Liga costs £23 – less than half that of an English Premier League game.



In an additional analysis of ticket prices and the cost of an away game by GoEuro, England was way out in front of the other 25 countries featured. While the average cost of a Premier League ticket, at £54, just pips the £50 to see a Spanish or Italian top flight game, the cost of travelling to an away game was way beyond anywhere else, except the US.

Fans pay a typical £216 in the UK to see an away match. By comparison, Portugese fans will pay £98. Football fans in the US will pay £217.

“It costs almost the same to travel to Germany to see a Bundesliga match as it does to stay in the UK and attend a Premier League game,” said Naren Shaam, CEO of GoEuro. “These numbers might lead you to question whether home fans in the UK are really getting a fair deal for their money.’’

He said each week more than 2,000 British fans travel to see Borussia Dortmund play.

If cost is a motivation those fans have made a sound financial move. Followers of the Bundesliga can get a return flight out to Dortmund with Easyjet for £114, whereas Chelsea fans wanting to buy a last minute train ticket to see their team play Newcastle on Saturday would pay a minimum of £127 to go there and back.



Some UK based football clubs have made efforts to keep prices down. In July Swansea City announced it was putting a £22 cap on the price of tickets to its away games, while several clubs have previously entered into reciprocal deals with other clubs to keep costs down.

