The pint and pie index: what matchday costs

Every away fan has a pricing story: the £7 lukewarm lager, the pie that cost more than the programme. But hard numbers are strangely difficult to find, because clubs do not publish concourse price lists and the prices change season to season without announcement.

Here is what the published reporting says for the 2025-26 season, with sources. Where we could not verify a number, we have not printed one. That is the deal on this site.

Pints: the spread is enormous

The gap between the cheapest and dearest pint in the Premier League is more than double, according to Planet Football's 2025-26 club-by-club survey:

• Cheapest: Old Trafford, where the cheapest lager option starts around £3.00, with Anfield close behind at £3.20.
• Dearest: the Emirates at £6.35, with Stamford Bridge among the priciest at £5.70.
• The turnaround award: London Stadium, where West Ham cut prices from among the league's dearest to £3.90.
• Mid-table pints: around £4.10 at the Stadium of Light and £4.25 at the Vitality.

Two things worth knowing before you plan your matchday drinking around these numbers. First, the quoted figure is usually the cheapest option on the bar; the branded lager typically costs more. Second, you cannot drink in view of the pitch in English league football anyway, so the concourse pint is a half-time sprint, not a session. The pub does it better: our London pubs guide and ground pages cover where.

Pies: the £3 to £5 window

Per Football Ground Guide's Premier League pie reporting, the 2025-26 range runs roughly:

• Cheapest: Turf Moor at £3.00, keeping Burnley's reputation as the spiritual home of the reasonably priced pie.
• Dearest: London Stadium at £5.00. The pint got cheaper, the pie did not.
• The benchmark: Anfield's pie at £3.40 is about the league's centre of gravity.

Why there is no full 92-ground table here

We publish full club-by-club tables when we hold checked data for every ground, like our bag policy directory. Concourse prices do not work that way: clubs do not publish them, they vary within a single stadium, and they change mid-season. A definitive EFL-wide pint table would be partly invented, and invented numbers are worse than no numbers when someone is budgeting a trip.

So treat this page as the verified skeleton. As more clubs publish prices, or reliable surveys land, the numbers here get updated with them.

Sources

Premier League pint prices: Planet Football, 2025-26 season. Pie prices: Football Ground Guide. Checked July 2026. Prices move: if the concourse board disagrees with this page, believe the board and tell us.