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Hull City plan to replace season tickets with a membership scheme.

The Championship club claim the new system could see some supporters save as much as £282.

Hull will give fans the choice of three different levels of membership, with the cheapest costing £21 a month.

Vice chairman Ehab Allam 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 BBC's Price of Football survey 2015 found that the Tigers' cheapest season ticket cost £531, while their most expensive was £606.

Their cheapest ticket is currently the costliest in the second tier of English football, but eight clubs have more expensive tickets in the top band of pricing.

Allam added: "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."

If the Tigers, currently fourth in the second tier, reach the Premier League this season then some supporters will pay £13 per match next season, while remaining in the Football League will lower that figure to £11 per game.

It is understood this is the first time such a scheme has been tried by a Football League club, although Barnet, then in the Conference, scrapped season tickets in favour of a monthly non-contract membership scheme in 2013.

Scatman wrote:What was the LMTB thing they used to do at the swamp? Anything similar?

Wonderwall wrote:

Scatman wrote:What was the LMTB thing they used to do at the swamp? Anything similar?

Yeah I remember that, not sure how it worked, I worked with someone who had one, I asked if it was a season ticket and he said no, but he was entitled to go to every league match? I just looked confused and walked away, I had already wasted 15 seconds talking to him.

Blue Since 76 wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:

Scatman wrote:What was the LMTB thing they used to do at the swamp? Anything similar?

Yeah I remember that, not sure how it worked, I worked with someone who had one, I asked if it was a season ticket and he said no, but he was entitled to go to every league match? I just looked confused and walked away, I had already wasted 15 seconds talking to him.

I always assumed that was like our old ones at Maine Rd where you had a book with about 40 tickets in and tore the right one out at the turnstile.

Not sure I see the difference in the Hull one from a season ticket with proper pricing. Those 2015 prices are a joke

Blue Since 76 wrote:Not sure I see the difference in the Hull one from a season ticket with proper pricing. Those 2015 prices are a joke

nottsblue wrote:

Blue Since 76 wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:

Scatman wrote:What was the LMTB thing they used to do at the swamp? Anything similar?

Yeah I remember that, not sure how it worked, I worked with someone who had one, I asked if it was a season ticket and he said no, but he was entitled to go to every league match? I just looked confused and walked away, I had already wasted 15 seconds talking to him.

I always assumed that was like our old ones at Maine Rd where you had a book with about 40 tickets in and tore the right one out at the turnstile.

Not sure I see the difference in the Hull one from a season ticket with proper pricing. Those 2015 prices are a joke

Knowing the rags it would have been a membership scheme costing twenty quid or thereabouts which you had to have to purchase match day tickets. The entitled to bit was probably just that he was entitled to purchase tickets on top of the membership fee.

Blue Since 76 wrote:

nottsblue wrote:

Blue Since 76 wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:

Scatman wrote:What was the LMTB thing they used to do at the swamp? Anything similar?

Yeah I remember that, not sure how it worked, I worked with someone who had one, I asked if it was a season ticket and he said no, but he was entitled to go to every league match? I just looked confused and walked away, I had already wasted 15 seconds talking to him.

I always assumed that was like our old ones at Maine Rd where you had a book with about 40 tickets in and tore the right one out at the turnstile.

Not sure I see the difference in the Hull one from a season ticket with proper pricing. Those 2015 prices are a joke

Knowing the rags it would have been a membership scheme costing twenty quid or thereabouts which you had to have to purchase match day tickets. The entitled to bit was probably just that he was entitled to purchase tickets on top of the membership fee.

That sounds more like ours! They used to get first round of league cup included. Remember going with a mate on his tickets to watch them play Portsmouth. The game was that bad, I was actually hoping Portsmouth wouldn't equalise as I couldn't face extra time.