Hull City will replace the traditional season-ticket for a membership style plan it was announced today.

Earn Your Stripes – the club’s new Season Membership Scheme – will launch for the 2016/17 campaign, which the club says will be a ‘fairer, simpler and, for many, cheaper way of watching the Tigers in action next season.’ 

The new monthly membership programme is aimed at rewarding supporter loyalty, whilst reducing the cost of watching the team in action at the KC Stadium both for members and match-by-match supporters. 

There will be three tiers of Membership – One-Stripe, Two-Stripe and Three-Stripe, with Two and Three-Stripe Membership giving access to a range of extra benefits including away match ticket priority, the option to sign-up to Away Direct and discounted away match travel. 

However many stripes fans sign up for, from the start of 2016/17 the KC Stadium will be split into five different price zones (one of which will be for corporate clients only) offering a ‘one price per zone’ payment plan. 

It’s expected that some adults will be able to make a saving of up to £282, or 47% when compared with the current season, although the new Membership Scheme will mean an increase in price for a minority of existing concessionary Season Card holders.

Speaking about Earn Your Stripes, Tigers Vice-Chairman Ehab Allam said: “From the brink of extinction to the Premier League, an FA Cup Final and European football, our story is a script which could never have been written – it’s been nothing short of unbelievable. 

“Our new Earn Your Stripes Season Membership offers a fairer and simpler pricing plan and is just one of the ways in which the Club can ensure that there is no financial barrier to watching our script unfold.”