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Why is buying Premier League football tickets such a terrible user experience?

Last week I reviewed Arsenal’s new website, and in general I thought the club had done a good job of creating a simplified and user-friendly browsing experience.

However I didn’t look at the ticketing system as part of the review, and it’s since been pointed out to me that several Premier League clubs offer a below par user experience for fans trying to buy tickets.

This sparked nostalgic memories of spending ages trying to buy tickets for Spurs games back in the days of dial-up internet.

I assumed the user experience would have improved by now, but has it?

Why do Premier League clubs offer such an awful user experience?

Due to the global appeal of the Premier League and the fact that most fans buy tickets online you would have thought that e-commerce was a valuable revenue earner for top flight football teams.

However a quick look at the homepages of the nation’s top clubs suggests that they don’t see UX as a top priority.

It would be easy to say that with the amount of money in football they should probably spend some of it on user-testing, but I’ll rise above that and instead I’ll simply point out some of the more obvious flaws that clubs should be looking to address.

For more information on the digital strategies of Premier League clubs, check out our blog which ranks the teams’ search and social performances.

Man Utd are top for search visibility, but Chelsea are champs for social

Manchester City may have risen to the upper echelons of the Premier League in the past few seasons, but the team’s success on the pitch hasn’t made an impact where it really matters, in Google’s rankings.

In fact a new study that analysed the search visibility of the 20 Premier League clubs found that Man City lie in sixth place, while unsurprisingly Man Utd top the table.

Searchmetrics used its SEO Visibility tool to measure how prominently and frequently each teams’ website appeared in Google UK search results.