The Burger Index
What a matchday costs a family — burger, pint, programme, ticket — tracked club by club across the English football pyramid.
Ascot United at the Racecourse Ground
£5.70 for the burger, £10 to get in, and a club café that won't take your cash. An FA Cup preliminary round tie on Crown Estate land, at a club with no shares to sell.
Burger Index: Dagenham & Redbridge
A £19 gate, a 4.8-rated burger and one lager served by two people. Dagenham's matchday operation, tested just as new celebrity investment arrived.
Burger Index: Hanwell Town
A £5 burger, three separate food operations and a Step 3 club that has just restructured itself to make outside investment easier.
Burger Index: Leyton Orient
A £6.95 burger at Brisbane Road, and the £4.6m loss sitting behind Leyton Orient's record revenue and new ownership.
Burger Index: Chelmsley Town at Pack Meadow
Free entry, a £4 burger, and our first tier 10 fixture — as far down the pyramid as the logo goes.
Burger Index: Carshalton Athletic
A factory patty at £5, and a club whose own filed accounts tell you more than most about how a Step 3 side actually makes its money.
Burger Index: QPR at Loftus Road
£5.60 for a dry, factory-made burger at our first Championship ground — worse than the £4.50 burger three divisions down.
Kingstonian at Robert Parker Stadium
£4.50 for the burger, £12 to get in. The first entry in The Burger Index — a Kingstonian home fixture played at Ashford Town's ground, and what the price list says about non-league matchday economics.