Manchester City have confirmed that £10 tickets will be available for every Premier League home fixture during the 2026-27 campaign.
The scheme, developed in partnership with fan advisory board City Matters, is designed to protect the local core of the club's support while giving Mancunians who live near the Etihad Campus a chance to attend matches they might otherwise miss out on.
Between 100 and 500 tickets will be made available per game via a ballot, with the biggest fixtures — Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United — included in the offer. Pricing is set at £10 for adults, £7.50 for concessions, and £5 for under-fives. Groups can apply together if they want to sit with one another.
City Matters chair Lee Broadstock told the Manchester Evening News: “We’re really pleased to see the club take proactive steps to help local people watch Manchester City, with thousands of Premier League tickets available for just £10.”
The scheme covers postcodes in Clayton Openshaw, Ancoats Beswick, Gorton Abbey Hey, Ardwick, and Miles Platting Newton Heath. Seats will be spread across the stadium rather than confined to one section.
The move follows a string of protests last season after the club announced season ticket prices would be frozen for the 2025-26 campaign — a decision chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak described as “not okay” in terms of the growing disconnect between club and fans.
With the North Stand expansion — now renamed the Pep Guardiola Stand — adding capacity, there is awareness at board level that rising attendances could push local supporters further from the matchday experience. Discounted tickets are one way of keeping east Manchester engaged with the project, alongside the nearby Co-op Live venue and ongoing improvements around the ground by City Football Group.
In March, the club unveiled plans for a 400-bed hotel, a 3,000-capacity fan zone, a new club shop, a museum, and a 600-capacity immersive entertainment venue hosting Mamma Mia! The Party. Final planning approvals for those developments were granted three weeks ago.
City open the new season against Bournemouth next month.