FD 27 Direct Your Football Club FD 27 Ticket and Merch Prices
Attendance is a lever. So is goodwill. Neither is a transfer budget.
Ticket and merchandising prices in FD 27: Direct Your Football Club sit on the same board as television and sponsorship. They are not a side minigame. Drop home prices and you may gain season-ticket holders. Raise them like a giant in League Two and the forecast looks rich for a month while the stands quietly empty. This page is the lever. How to manage finances is the yearly shape. How to get sponsors is the four commercial slots that often pay for the right to make tickets cheaper.
The economy menus expose more than one door into the same numbers. Tickets and season passes let you adjust seat prices. Food and drink have their own sliders. Shirt price is a third conversation, closer to culture than to a pie stall. If you delegated finance in setup, the financial director can bounce those sliders after you leave the screen. Responsibilities apply in-game. That is not flavour. See controls and the four departments map.
Seats, away fans, and the cheap-shirt sentence
Home, youth and away tickets are separate. Cutting home prices a notch can add a hundred season-ticket holders in a demo-sized example; the engine is balancing headcount against yield, not awarding moral points. Away prices that fleece visitors are a fan-mood decision as much as a cash one. Youth tickets rarely rescue a wage bill. Treat them as a sentence you can quote, not as a hidden gold tap.
Shirt price fights club vision. An “affordable tickets” culture toggle is a two-month lock in the same family as transfer-policy locks. Disable it and fan anger can jump by a visible chunk. Enable cheap shirts as identity, then hire a greedy analyst, and watch whether the number creeps back up. That conflict is the point of an owner sim. Pick a sentence. Fund it. Do not write “the people’s club” on the vision board and then charge a tourist shirt.
Food and drink sit between goodwill and margin. Public posts do not publish a full elasticity table, and this wiki will not invent one. Watch the forecast after a change, burn a monthly save first, and treat a slider that does nothing as a Steam thread rather than a missing hotkey. Merchandising income was rebalanced to give more weight to club level, which especially helps weaker divisions. Museum and shopping-centre costs and revenue also moved. Retick after patch notes.
What pays for cheaper seats
A stadium naming-rights deal can dwarf a ticket tweak. That is why the shirt and stadium slots exist. Fill them without dumping the shirt on day one, then use the extra line to make seats honest if vision asked for that. Television still dominates at the top of the pyramid. In League One and Segunda, matchday and merch are readable. That is why the club picker keeps pushing those chairs for a first save.
Loans that finish a training ground can be rational. Loans that exist so you can keep tickets cosmetically low while you buy a nine are how February arrives with debt and a thin bench. Investment checks that ignored a new loan when reading the bank balance were fixed on 14 August 2026. Read the forecast after you borrow, then look at prices again. The league assembly can add a fine on top of a pricing mood. Open that forecast before you vote.
Facility completion now notifies you. Expanding the stadium too early in a small division is a loan shaped like pride. Capacity without a reason to come is empty seats at a new price. Pair bricks with facilities priority. Pair Saturday collapses with match day: if the product on the pitch is a 90-minute nil-nil, cheap tickets will not invent atmosphere.
Use the first season checklist month-one box for tickets not set like a giant. Print it. Move one slider at a time. Version 0.1 already lets a pretty commercial month hide an angry stand. Owners who treat prices as a cheat menu meet May with a shirt nobody buys and a vision sentence they cannot quote.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers for the boardroom questions owners actually search.
Will the financial director undo my ticket cuts?
If you delegated finance at setup, yes, they can touch prices. Responsibilities apply. See controls.
Should I max every price in League Two?
No. Yield versus attendance is the point. A giant tariff in a small division empties the stand and fights vision.
Is shirt price the same as a sponsor slot?
No. Shirt price is what fans pay. The shirt sponsor is a commercial contract. See how to get sponsors.
Did merchandising change in patches?
Yes. Weaker divisions got more weight. Museum and shop economics moved. Confirm on patch notes.