Watching the football club that you choose to support can sometimes be a labour of love. For most supporters, the new campaign is usually only a few weeks old when dreams and aspirations of promotion to a higher level are replaced by a bleak and desolate sense of reality about watching your team blunder along in the lower league wilderness for yet another year.
That brilliant striker you wanted your club to sign in the bright summer months opted to sign for your local rivals instead and is banging them in for fun. Meanwhile, the reality has also finally dawned on you have that some of your own team's strikers couldn't hit a cow's backside with a banjo, as you watch your side slip to yet another early season defeat in a game you really should have won.
Yet you know despite the trauma and torture of watching another 12 months of what you know is going to be certain failure, you'll still stump up the money for yet another season ticket at the end of the season, in the eternal hope that things will get better next season and your heroes will start looking semi-capable of finally winning a football match.
However, as you head to your clubs ticket office to renew for another year of watching that boring mid-table team who have been stuck in the same division as your team for years, you start to wonder is it really worth it? Would you rather spend every other Saturday afternoon relaxing with your family, or pay £300+ to watch that useless striker who has stolen another one-year contract blast a shot into Row Z from only a few yards out. Nevertheless, you convince yourself that your team will be better this season and sign up for another 12 months of football.
But how much are you really paying for your season ticket? Is it value for money and can football clubs as a whole justify the prices they are charging. Is it fair that an obscure club two divisions higher than you, who have far better players are charging their supporters less, whilst you are paying premium prices to watch a team recently promoted from the non-league wilderness, rumble into town?
Curious and intrigued by just how much clubs are charging their supporters for season tickets in these dark days of recession and cut-backs, CrossingDartford, chose to investigate.
Listed below is the cheapest possible price of an adult season ticket at each of the 72 Football League clubs for the upcoming 2012/13 campaign. The price is based on an adult (usually aged 16 - 59), purchasing a season ticket for the first time and NOT renewing from the previous season. Adult season tickets available in family sections have also been excluded from this research.
Npower CHAMPIONSHIP –
CHEAPEST ADULT SEASON TICKET AT EACH CLUB
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Club
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Cheapest ST
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Additional
Information
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1.
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Blackburn Rovers
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£225
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Price expired on 30 April
2012.
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2.
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Charlton Athletic
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£240
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Price expired on 5 April 2012.
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3.
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Bristol City
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£249
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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4.
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Peterborough United
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£275
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Price expired on 15 April 2012.
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5.
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Bolton Wanderers
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£285
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Price was only applicable online.
Expired on 9 June 2012.
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6.
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Burnley
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£299
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Price expired on 30 March 2012.
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7.
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Barnsley
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£315
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Price expired on 30 April 2012.
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8.
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Blackpool
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£339
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Price expired on 30 April 2012.
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9.
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Cardiff City
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£345
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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10.
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Derby County
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£350
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Price expired on 1 June 2012.
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11.
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Sheffield Wednesday
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£365
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Price expired on 16 June 2012.
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12.
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Birmingham City
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£369
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Price expires on 2 July 2012.
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13.
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Watford
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£370
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Price expired on 18 May 2012.
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Wolverhampton Wanderers
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£370
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Price expired on 8 June 2012.
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15.
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Huddersfield Town
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£383
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Price expired on 13 April 2012.
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16.
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Hull City
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£385
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Price expires on 30 June 2012.
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Leicester City
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£385
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Price expired on 9 June 2012.
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18.
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Ipswich Town
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£390
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Price expired on 13 April 2012.
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19.
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Crystal Palace
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£395
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Price expired on 3 February 2012.
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20.
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Nottingham Forest
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£397
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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21.
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Millwall
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£400
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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22.
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Brighton & Hove Albion
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£425
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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23.
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Middlesbrough
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£450
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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24.
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Leeds United
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£582
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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Npower LEAGUE ONE –
CHEAPEST ADULT SEASON TICKET AT EACH CLUB
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Club
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Cheapest ST
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Additional
Information
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1.
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Hartlepool United
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£155
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Price expires on 31 July 2012.
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2.
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Shrewsbury Town
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£270
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Price expired on 4 April 2012.
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3.
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Yeovil Town
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£273
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Price expired on 31 May 2012.
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4.
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Crewe Alexandra
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£275
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Price expired on 1 May 2012.
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5.
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Scunthorpe United
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£276
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Price expires on 6 July 2012.
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6.
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Walsall
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£290
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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7.
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Bury
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£295
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Price expired on 31 March 2012.
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8.
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Tranmere Rovers
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£298
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Price expired on 4 May 2012.
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9.
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Coventry City
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£299
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Price expired on 9 June 2012.
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Stevenage
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£299
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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11.
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Brentford
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£300
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Price expired on 31 May 2012.
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Leyton Orient
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£300
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Price expires on 30 June 2012.
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Milton Keynes Dons
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£300
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Price expired on 10 April 2012.
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Preston North End
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£300
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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15.
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Oldham Athletic
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£303
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Price expired on 11 May 2012.
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16.
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Crawley Town
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£305
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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17.
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Notts County
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£325
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Price expired on 30 April 2012.
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18.
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Carlisle United
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£337
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Price expires on 23 June 2012.
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19.
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Doncaster Rovers
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£339
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Price expired on 5 April 2012.
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20.
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Portsmouth
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£345
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Price expires on 6 July 2012.
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21.
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Swindon Town
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£350
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Price expired on 31 May 2012.
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22.
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Colchester United
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£357
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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23.
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AFC Bournemouth
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£361
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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24.
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Sheffield United
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£369
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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Npower LEAGUE TWO –
CHEAPEST ADULT SEASON TICKET AT EACH CLUB
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Club
|
Cheapest ST
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Additional
Information
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1.
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Bradford City
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£199
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Price expired on 31 May 2012.
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Morecambe
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£199
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Price expired on 31 May 2012.
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Northampton Town
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£199
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Price expired on 14 January 2012.
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4.
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Fleetwood Town
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£230
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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5.
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Oxford United
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£252
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Price expired on 12 April 2012.
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6.
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Accrington Stanley
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£255
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Price expires on 29 June 2012.
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York City
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£255
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Price expired on 30 April 2012.
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8.
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AFC Wimbledon
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£260
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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“ “
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Bristol Rovers
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£260
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Price expired on 30 April
2012.
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10.
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Cheltenham Town
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£265
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Price expired on 6 June 2012.
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11.
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Port Vale
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£272
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Price expired on 30 April 2012.
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12.
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Dagenham & Redbridge
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£275
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Price expired on 14 June 2012.
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13.
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Rochdale
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£277.50
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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14.
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Burton Albion
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£291
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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15.
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Torquay United
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£295
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Price expired on 25 May 2012.
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16.
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Wycombe Wanderers
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£300
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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17.
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Barnet
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£304
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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18.
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Aldershot Town
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£308
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Price expired on 30 April 2012.
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19.
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Chesterfield
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£310
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Price expired on 18 May 2012.
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20.
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Exeter City
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£326
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Price expires on 21 June 2012.
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21.
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Plymouth Argyle
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£340
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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Rotherham United
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£340
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Price applicable until start of the
season.
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23.
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Gillingham
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£349
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Price expired on 31 May 2012.
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24.
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Southend United
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£350
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Price expired on 12 March 2012.
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