The Burger Index
What a matchday costs a family — burger, pint, programme, ticket — tracked club by club across the English football pyramid.
Burger Index: Sutton United
An £8.50 rib cap burger, £24 through the gate and a £5.90 pint at a National League ground that also hosts a WSL club. The dearest visit the Index has made below the Premier League, and the burger arrived burnt.
Burger Index: Racing Club Warwick
A £6 burger, £8 admission and a £2.50 pint at a newly promoted tier seven members' club. The burger is mid-table. The economics around it are more interesting.
Burger Index: Fisher
A £3.50 burger, £8 admission and a £3.50 can from a Bermondsey brewery. Fisher enters the Burger Index at 8.3.
Burger Index: Tottenham Hotspur
No beef burger at a stadium reported to have cost around £1bn — just a £9.95 venison Game Burger. Spurs enter the Burger Index at 8.2.
Burger Index: Hampton & Richmond Borough
A £15 gate, £6 Moretti and a £5 burger at a Beveree Stadium receiving significant new investment. Hampton & Richmond enters at 7.2.
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.