*News* Fury on track to break membership record

With less than 7-days until the North Queensland Fury play their first home match of the Hyundai A-League 2010/11 season, new Membership application forms are still flooding in.

As the Fury’s new Management and Administration team only started in early July, the Fury were late to market in announcing the details of season tickets for the new season. However, the attractive pricing structure and the growing supporter base for the Fury throughout North Queensland has seen the club inundated with renewal and new membership forms in the past fortnight – with Fury bosses expecting the number of 2010/11 Members* to break the 3,500 mark going into Saturday’s match. This figure represents a 30% increase when comparing figures from this time last season.

Ticketek, the club’s official ticketing partner, are working as fast as they can to process all these applications by Wednesday (11th August) to enable the Fury to put on general sale remaining seats in the Eastern Terrance for Saturday’s match v Sydney FC. General Admission tickets are already available to purchase for both hills, Northern and Southern, and as demonstrated last season, are always extremely popular with families and larger groups of supporters.

Commenting on this encouraging situation, North Queensland Fury’s Chief Executive Rabieh Krayem said;
“The key to any successful sporting club, particularly those with longevity, is the number of members and supporters you can attract. We felt that last season’s ticket and membership pricing structure was not affordable when you take into consideration the financial pressures everyone is experiencing. “So for the 2010/11 season, we heavily reduced our membership and match day ticket prices across the board plus offered a further 15% discount to those involved in Football Queensland or the Defence Forces, to encourage more people to attend our home fixtures and soak up the unique atmosphere which is generated at Fury matches.

“The Fury is a family-friendly club and as such our family tickets this season have been priced accordingly. But the response from around the region has been staggering, with almost 500 family memberships already sold.

“Although we hoped for a good response, the amount of completed application forms we’ve received in the past fortnight has been positively overwhelming and supports our ethos of being community minded in everything we do.

“We had hoped to put all remaining tickets for our Sydney FC match on sale last week but due to the high volume of applications yet to be processed, we can only make available at this time general admission tickets on the hills. By Wednesday we should be in a position to put on sale any remaining silver and gold seats in the Eastern Terrace for this Saturday’s match.

“I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the team of workers at Ticketek in Brisbane who have been putting in the long hours to help us meet our deadlines.”

To buy match day tickets, go to www.ticketek.com.au or call 132 849.


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