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A Centre Court debenture at Wimbledon will set back tennis fans £116,000 ($146,000/€135,000) for the next five-year period – an increase of 45%.
The Times reported that it would mean buyers will be paying £1,657 a day for a seat at the tennis championships. The latest price hike from bosses at the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) means that debenture-holders from 2026-2030 will be paying roughly quadruple compared to holders from a decade ago.
The 45% increase is not quite as high as the jump between the 2011-2015 debenture price of £27,750 and 2016-2020’s £50,000, which represented an 80% hike. This then further increased 60% from £50,000 to £80,000 for 2021-2025.
It does include a seat on the same tier as the Royal Box however, as well as car parking and access to a debenture-holders’ restaurant.
While regular tickets cannot be re-sold, Wimbledon permits the debenture seats to be listed on secondary ticketing sites, and can also be traded as corporate bonds.
In a statement to The Times, Wimbledon said: “Debenture tickets are the only Wimbledon tickets which are freely transferable, meaning debenture holders may give away or sell their tickets on the open market on days they cannot attend, or sell their entire debenture.”
The 2,520 debenture offering will raise approximately £292.3m for Wimbledon. The first debenture issue was in 1920 for 25 years from 1922-1947, with an extension for six years until 1953 due to the Second World War.
This year’s Wimbledon Championships will take place from July 1-14.
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