FC Goa raise Base tickets To Rs 200

Tickets for the FC Goa home matches have been priced at Rs 200 , Rs 250,Rs 480,Rs 800 plus tax and the box ticket Rs 3000 plus tax. The Rs 800 and s 3000 tickets carry and additional 15& entertainment tax and 14% sales tax. Tickets are to be available online through Book My show according to highly placed FC Goa sources in Mumbai.

Though there appeared a bit of hesitation on pricing the base tickets-at the time of going to press- sources informed The Goan that the remaining prices were settled and that the tickets will “be on sale after Ganesh Chathurti.” “One group of tickets is priced Rs 480 to avoid the tax slab if tickets are priced at Rs 500 and above,” explained our source.

The prices of tickets last year were: Rs 100, Rs 200,Rs 500 and Rs 2,500. “The tickets had to be increased as the revenue generated last year was just around Rs 2 crores. The Fatorda stadium seats 19,800 people. There was little room to manoeuvre,” rationalised the FC Goa source.

“The prices of tickets may change if FC Goa reach the semi-finals. But, the change will be marginal. The prices for the finals in December are fixed by ISL. FC Goa will have no say in that as the finals is organised by them, not the home team,” added our source.

FC Goa has spent around Rs 21 crores just on the players. Another Rs  4 crores is being spent on Zico and his back up team taking the cost overruns to over 25 crores. The response has not been good from advertisers. We have Adidas for the moment but that is not enough. That is why we are trying to rope in some Goan entrepreneurs. We know the impact will not be much but something is better than nothing at this stage,” stated our source.

“The ISL has to be paid a yearly franchise fee of Rs 12.20 crores with 20% service tax. That comes to around 14 crores this year.”  Disclosed our source, elaborating on the cost structure the franchise has to face while bringing together the effort.

In a recently released press statement Chennaiyin FC too declared their tickets at Rs 150, Rs 200,Rs 300,Rs 500 and Rs 2,500. Unlike the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in Goa, the stadium in Chennai accommodates 40,000 spectators.

Meanwhile, highly placed sources in Dubai confirmed that coach Zico will not be arriving with the team on the night of September 22. “Zico is going to Zurich for a few days. He will return to Goa from Zurich. The boys will be looked after by his technical team, in his absence.”

“ I know he is going for some FIFA related work. I don’t know whether his visit has anything to do with the FIFA elections. “quipped our source in Dubai.