One of the incentives of the summer, far behind the transfer market, is the evolution of season ticket campaigns for sports clubs. Essential part of the budget, especially for the most humble clubs or in lower categories.
And in this preseason of 2021/22 it is FC Cartagena that leads the ranking of the teams in the Region of Murcia with the most season tickets. The Albinegros, with more than 8,100 cards sold for their second consecutive season in LaLiga SmartBank, have become the club with the most social mass.
A figure, although impressive due to the conditions related to the coronavirus pandemic, which is insufficient for the club that expected to overcome the 10,000 barrier, a ceiling that they understand that due to the advance of the summer and with the championship already started, it will be difficult to achieve.
Yes, it is possible to overcome the historical record that was already very close last year. In 2020/21, FC Cartagena had 8,472 members, only 10 behind the record of the 2009/10 season, after Alcoy’s promotion, which was 8,482.
One category below, in the recently created First RFEF, the only Murcian team that will participate is UCAM Murcia CF. University students, due to club policy, do not provide data on the campaign and the only thing that Cadena SER has been able to know is that they have exceeded 1,000 and that they seek to exceed 1,400, figures from before the pandemic.
In the Second RFEF, Real Murcia leads the category with 6,100 cards sold. The objective set since the beginning of the campaign is to match the data from last year, when 7,700 were issued, although club sources speak of getting as many faithful as possible.
A distant figure from the Second B record that was set in 2019/20 with close to 11,000. And light years away from the 25,000 subscribers of the last season in the First Division in the 2007/08 season, in a campaign in which the number of new registrations was limited.
In the Mar Menor there are already more than 200 followers with a card and they have a target of 1,000 members for this season in 2nd RFEF. For its part, Águilas, with a larger budget than those of San Javier, has already exceeded half a thousand fans with a seat.
Finally, a newly released 3rd RFEF club, Yeclano Deportivo, finds it impossible to repeat the figures of their return to Segunda B when they exceeded 1,000 members. At the moment they are about 300 faithful in La Consititución and will try to reach 500 in the final phase of this summer season subscribers.
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