The Russian Football Union (RFU) has decided not to raise ticket prices for the Russian Cup final in order to make the stadium accessible to fans, the RFU’s development director told reporters. Maxim Mitrofanov .
The Russian Cup final between Spartak Moscow and Dynamo will take place on May 29 at the Luzhniki Stadium. Petersburg “Zenit” became the champion of Russia for the fourth time in a row.
– How do you rate the finished Russian championship?
– It was interesting.
– Many say that there is Zenit hegemony and watching the tournament is not so interesting.
– Zenit only last month, three rounds before the end of the championship, secured a victory. Before that, everything was absolutely incomprehensible, Dynamo also won the championship, a number of clubs chased the leaders. In the middle of the table, in the relegation zone, there was a tense fight everywhere. The point difference was very small, the density in the table was high and any game fundamentally changed the position of the clubs.
– What can you say about the excitement before the Russian Cup final? It looks like the tournament is getting prestigious again, like it was many years ago.
– To my knowledge, there are not many tickets left, this indicates a great interest from the public, an unprecedented effervescence. Unfortunately, not everyone will be satisfied. Yes, we must fight for absolute justice, but it is difficult to ensure it. Faced with such an influx, there are purely commercial levers: it is an increase in ticket prices. But colleagues from the sales department made an absolutely correct decision, keeping the ticket price. We would have earned a lot more, that’s for sure, but we would have received criticism in return for fundamentally different pricing, elite, inaccessibility, etc.
Here we have tried to make tickets as affordable as possible for the average fan. RFU is not a club, RFU doesn’t play 20-25 home games a year, so there are some issues here. Colleagues assure that at least 98% of legal ticket holders will be at the game tomorrow. The ticket operator analyzed payment card data, made one-time purchases and they showed that no type of ticket went sideways, Mitrofanov said.
Source : MatchTV
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