If you have 80,000 poundsin London many think there are better ways to invest than the stock market or cryptocurrencies or NFTs. One of the sporting events most important and exclusive in the world offers every five years the chance to get one of 2,520 season tickets, whose value can be multiplied by several numbers and where the rarity is such that it usually passes from generation to generation.
These are Wimbledon season tickets, one of the most profitable ways of financing the event and which represent a unique opportunity for tennis lovers.who will be able to attend every day of the tournament on center court for five years, as well as speculators, who are already excited about the opportunity to sell the entire ticket again or on the day.
The subscription price between 2021 and 2025 reaches 80,000 pounds (94,000 euros) and, in addition to allowing access to the center court of All England Club During the 14 days of the competition, it also allows resale, something that is impossible for the rest of the tickets, which are linked to their buyer and their resale is prohibited and punished.
Unlike most sporting events in the world, Wimbledon operates differently when it comes to selling its tickets. This is not done through the traditional system, this is done by raffle, which usually takes place in October of the previous year. If you are one of the lucky ones, You will receive a double ticket for a random day for between £150 and £300.
The other option, the cheapest and most difficult, is to endure the famous ‘the queue’, a queue that forms in the adjacent Wimbledon Park and where people spend the night for a chance to access the tournament in exchange for only three pounds. This is how Wimbledon ensures that the center court is not only reserved for the most elite.
The difficulty of getting a seat in the Tennis Cathedral causes subscriptions one of the most important things in the world of tennis and doing business here is more than simple. Last year’s final alone between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic reached resale prices of more than 13,000 poundsa price similar to that of the final between Federer and Djokovic in 2019, but far from 70,000 they asked to see Andy Murray beat Djokovic in the 2013 finalthe first time a Briton won Wimbledon since Fred Perry in 1936.
The Wimbledon organization itself offers subscribers prices of 900 pounds for the first days of the tournaments and 3,000 for the final, if they want to resell the ticket through the official channel, but in the case of going to the unofficial resale, the prices for the full subscription are increasing. In 2019, a season ticket was again sold for £112,000, more than double the official price. despite the fact that it only has a two-year validity.
Because? For another reason that makes these ‘golden tickets’ special. Existing season ticket holders have priority in the next sales window. This means that the majority of subscriptions are always kept in the same hands and passed down from generation to generation.
Another of its secondary benefits is the seating of subscribers near the Royal Boxwhere it is easy to find members of the royal family and world celebrities.
The sale of season tickets of the All England Club represents, according to the same“the largest source of financing for the tournament.”
“With the sale of season tickets, the loans are paid off and the financing, improvement and renovation of the facilities is helped”they say from Wimbledon, that the first sale of season tickets began in the 1920s, when it helped finance the construction of the center court.
Over the years, season ticket proceeds have been used to build the new press pavilion, press room, interview area, center court retractable roof and court 1, as well as the development of an indoor tennis center adjacent to the tournament.
On March 21, the application period for new season tickets will open, which will be covered between seasons 2026 and 2030. Its value will be revealed on the same day, but with the increased interest the sport has experienced in recent years on the part of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are expected to break the record again. Between those issued in 2015 and those issued in 2020, their value increased by 30,000 pounds.
In addition to center court tickets, Wimbledon also offers this service for track 1, the second in importance. In 2021, The tournament sold 1,250 tickets for this court, with a price of 46,000 pounds
Source: La Verdad
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