To think it shouldn't cost so much for kids to go and watch their favourite football team?

That sounds far more reasonable op.

I've been to many premier league games and even recently they aren't more than £50 though admittedly up in the gods! I mostly have bought someone else's season ticket for one match as they couldn't go.

I've also just been reading Facebook comments under an ad for the membership saying that it's a waste of money and some people still never get tickets :-( Seems you have to be really "on the ball" and be on other sites/Facebook groups to try and get face-value priced tickets nearer the date.

Yes, I suspect you might be wasting your money.
Being a member does NOT guarantee tickets, and then when you add in the distance you'd have to travel and the fact someone would have to take him, and presumably you couldn't make a midweek game, and the fact it isn't a system you are familiar with and would necessarily be right on the ball with, the odds are it is going to be difficult to go this way.

Could you perhaps try to see if anyone you know is a member?
DS is a junior member of our local first league team (we are abroad, so no premier league). He's a member of the rugby section but would still be able to get preference tickets for the football team's matches at a reduced rate. (He's not into football, though...although I'm sure his grandad would love to take him. The team offer loads of different sports at amateur level but signing up for one of them gives you access to all of the benefits for the football team.)

Agreed!

You would need to:

Register as members before next season
Enter the ballot
If no success in the ballot (likely) register for Members Sales. E.g. We can register today for a chance to queue for the Boxing Day game v Leicester.

The tickets are cheap - if you are willing to pay hundreds you can just buy hospitality for the same as those resale prices.

We're from Scotland but my eldest has took an affinity with a player that ended up at Man City about 7-8 years ago and ended up as a casual fan (asks for a kit at Christmas etc) as well as being a die-hard for our local team.

I wanted to take them to a City game for their birthday a few years ago and found that by the time I signed us up as members and bought 2 tickets it would have been around £250 - which led me to reseller sites like the one you've posted but I'm all too aware of their reputation.

After a bit more clicking around the City website I discovered they had official 'travel partners' that offered ticket and hotel packages combined. I ended up getting the 2 tickets plus a hotel for the night for under £295 direct with an official supplier, which I thought was a relative bargain! Might be worth looking to see if Liverpool have similar partners

I believe Liverpool legend games are usually in March which isn’t long after his birthday if it’s something you think he might be interested in.

Encourage him to support your local team. For Liverpool, consider the Anfield stadium tour or you will more likely get tickets to a match if it’s an early cup game, a women’s game or the legends matches they do every year with Liverpool legends, not current players.

Could also try and get tickets to see England play? Something like a friendly.

I grew up supporting a premier league team (well, Division 1 in those days). Not one of the biggies, but we've been top flight for decades. My uncle or my dad could decide on a Saturday to take me to the match and we could buy tickets on the day. Scuzzy pub for a drink, kids offering to "watch your van" while we were away, pie at half time.

Premier league football is a money-making racket which has left its roots behind it long ago. Players demand multimillion pound packages and it's all about selling hospitality packages and merch in an attempt to get the money back. Not to mention running fixtures around what suits Sky's subscribers.

Supporters invest their hearts into their teams. And in return for this, we get pampered prima donnas diving and play acting all over the place and a sport that takes us for granted.

My son supported Spurs which is our local team. Almost impossible to get a ticket and had to pay adult prices. But we got tickets for international cricket at Lords for buttons when he was under 16. Growing an audience, allowing young supporters to be involved.

The top flight football clubs despise their supporters. We are cash cows and nothing else.

@ForeverTipsy unfortunately if you’re not accustomed to the ways of premier league football it can be a complete minefield. You are right, those prices would be a madness if they were what the regular home attending crowd were paying, however, a child’s ticket at Anfield probably has a face value of less than £30. The only way to get one of those face price tickets is via the club either as a season ticket holder (impossible, Liverpool has a waiting list that is decades long as far as I understand) or through their ballot system which for this season has already been done and dusted.

So your options are limited, either pay the inflated tout price as identified on the website you shared above or plan for next season and buy 2 paid memberships which allow you to enter the ballot for the game you would like to go to. It’s not a guarantee and may not get you tickets as demand hugely outweighs supply but it will give you a shot at some of those face price tickets and often memberships come with perks such as a free/discounted stadium tour.

Good luck, it can be tough when your kid is a fan of a premier league team that is difficult to get to, particularly if you aren’t a football fan yourself and know how it all works.

That's a reselling website, get them off the clubs website. They are nowhere near that price.

Please dont buy from here, the money is not going to the club but a greedy re-seller at best. At worst those tickets won't work. Only ever buy from the club's ticketing platform.

You need to enter the ballots for Anfield tickets and you are too late for the Premier League matches this season. You might be able to pick something up for a more obscure cup game.

What about an Anfield tour instead? They are £16 for kids and £25 adults. A trip to the club shop after.

Like others have said why not support a local team as well, rather than one that's 4 hours away from you.

It’s straightforward supply and demand. A lot of people want a product in limited supply: the price will go up. And in premier league football, there is massive demand for very limited supply, so the price goes up a lot. If the price goes down, it doesn’t mean you’ll be able to go, because the tickets will be so hard to get hold of, and go up to the crazy prices again on the resale market.

It doesn't cost anything like that for any Premier League Club.

The issue you have at Anfield is that they don't have spare tickets, and you have to become a member and then go in the ballot (and you get priority if you live in Liverpool).

As others have said, there are SO many places to watch football.
My local National League side do season tickets for 12 - 18 year olds for £100 for the whole season, but they are FREE if you are under 12.

You can still "support" a Prem League club, but actually go and watch a team close to you.

In my (admittedly v limited) experience, you should only get premier league tickets from the actual clubs, not from all the ticket seller websites. They’re likely to not work AND are far more expensive.
And to get them from the clubs you probably have to buy club membership for you and for your son. It’s hopefully cheaper for your son. Then you have to get hold of two tickets as they are released. This is a hideous ticket queue opens at 10am type scenario and you might not get anything. But, some matches are less busy (European league or carabo cup or whatever it’s called) and they have more availability. And there are often ticket returns which become available.

…and this is why lower league clubs struggle, people following a Premier League team from hundreds of miles away.

Here's the prices set by the club, nothing like what you are quoting.

www.liverpoolfc.com/tickets/match-day-premier-league-prices

But, the ballots are mostly closed and sold.out for premier league this season, you might get lucky for next season you become a member to enter the ballots.

Don't buy from those touting sites.

My children want to go to concerts, musicals and ballet performaces. Can we get reduced tickets too? These are expensive as well.