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Huge cost of supporting Spurs revealed amid Arsenal and Chelsea comparison

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An exclusive Reach investigation has looked into the price of following Tottenham compared to their Premier League rivals, including Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd and Liverpool

Supporting a football club is more expensive than ever before in England, an exclusive Reach investigation has found - and now you can see just how much each club charges its fans.

The Cost of Football is Reach’s annual investigation into how much each club in the top four divisions of English football charges its fans. It’s the largest of its kind in the country, and looks at three key items - season tickets, match tickets and shirt prices. And for the first time this year it also focuses on the prices of top category "Cat A" matches.

It found that while some clubs have frozen ticket prices amidst the cost of living crisis, overall things are getting more expensive.

The average cost of season tickets, match tickets and replica shirts have all increased to record levels.

The most expensive season tickets cost £3,000 each. Big-game match tickets at one club start at £70 apiece and cost as much as £240 at another. And three clubs are charging £60 for kids’ replica shirts.

You can see how each club compares against the others in their division using our gadget:

The cost of Tottenham's most expensive season tickets cost £2,015.00 each this season, which is a £10.00 decrease from las year.

Only Fulham charge more for their most expensive season ticket, which costs a whopping £3,000.00.

The cheapest season tickets at Spurs cost £807.00 each, which is the same as the last two seasons. Again though, only one club charges more - Arsenal at £973.00.

The average cost for the cheapest adult season ticket at each Premier League and EFL club is now £399.88. That’s the highest on record.

The average is also at record high levels for each division - £535.13 in the Premier League, £377.04 in the Championship, £368.34 in League One, and £341.56 in League Two.

The most expensive season tickets that clubs offer cost a record average of £610.15 across all four divisions. In the Premier League the average is £1,042.25, in the Championship it’s £581.73, in League One it’s £479.84, and in League Two it’s £407.61.

Single adult match tickets for league games without membership discounts across the top four divisions range from £9.00 at Liverpool to an eye watering £240.00 at Chelsea.

Those tickets are in Chelsea's premium Westview section though. The most expensive ‘normal’ tickets at Stamford Bridge cost £76.00 each.

Tottenham charge £37.00 for their cheapest adult match tickets and £103.00 for their most expensive.

Clubs often adopt a tiered pricing structure for different categories of matches.

The top tier, which in this project we’ve named "Cat A", are usually against the division’s top sides, or a local rival, and as such are more expensive.

When it comes to these "Cat A" matches, Spurs' tickets start at £65.00 each. The only club with a higher entry point are Arsenal at £70.00.

The cheapest tickets that clubs offer across all four divisions cost an average of £24.29 each. That's excluding family area tickets, which often require the purchase of junior ticket as well. The most expensive, meanwhile, cost an average of £40.32. However, a total of 21 clubs haven’t produced a publicly available list of prices for each match category.

They are - Burnley, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Luton Town, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Ipswich Town, Queens Park Rangers, Sunderland, Watford, Bristol Rovers, Charlton Athletic, Fleetwood Town, Port Vale, Shrewsbury Town, and Wigan Athletic.

The average cost of an adult replica top across the top four divisions is now £54.14, the highest on record.

Premier League shirts cost an average of £68.37 each, which is also a record.

In the Championship the average is £54.50, in League One it’s £49.48, and in League Two it’s £46.98.

Arsenal, Fulham, Manchester United, and Tottenham have the most expensive standard adult replica shirts at £80.00 each.

Spurs' has increased by £5.00 compared to last season.

The cost of junior shirts has also increased.

The average across all four divisions is now £41.98, while in the Premier League it’s as high as £51.21.

Three Premier League clubs charge £60.00 for their junior shirts - Manchester City, Tottenham, and West Ham.