Matchday Travel offerings to continue in the 2025/26 season | OneFootball

Following the success of our sustainable travel trials we are pleased to announce that our active travel offerings and competitions will continue in the 2025/26 season with minor changes detailed below.

This comes as part of our wider push towards making matchday travel increasingly sustainable.

Matchday Bus Network and Express Bus Service

The award winning Matchday Bus Network will continue to operate across Greater Manchester, Cheshire and High Peak for fans travelling to and from home matches.

16 Matchday buses will operate from 71 different locations with the continuation of the 15 existing routes including an additional bus on route MC9 from Flixton and a new stop at Central Park, Thorpe Road.

Two dedicated express buses will be operated and managed by Transport for Greater Manchester (TFGM) and will depart from Booth St Car Park via Piccadilly Train Station.

Example Journey (12:30pm KO) –

Pre Match •    Bus 1 Depart Booth St 9:15, Piccadilly Station 9:20, Arrive Etihad 9:30 - then returns to Booth St for second run.•    Bus 2 Departs Booth St 11:00, Piccadilly Station 11:08, Arrive Etihad 11:20•    Bus 1 (second run) Depart Booth St 11:15, Piccadilly Station 11:23, Arrive Etihad 11:35.

Post Match•    Bus 1 & 2 Depart Etihad 14:50, Arrive Piccadilly Station 15:00, Arrive Booth St 15:08; - then one bus return to Etihad for second run•    Bus 1 Depart Etihad 15:45, Arrive Piccadilly Station 15:55, Arrive Booth St 16:30

There will also be a single bus running from Victoria Station to the Etihad Stadium with two journeys each way.

Tickets are priced at £2 per journey and there is space for an average of 90 fans per bus which must be pre-booked.

The booking system can be found here.

Detailed information about the routes and the timings can be found on our dedicated Travel & Transport Hub as well as TFGM’s website.

We are also pleased to offer 500 offsite parking spaces at Booth St Carpark which can be booked here.

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Walking

The Citylink walking route connects Manchester Piccadilly Station to the Etihad Stadium, through the bustling areas of Ancoats, New Islington, and Holt Town.

The designated walking route is designed to create a vibrant pre-match experience with interactive lighting installations, live music from local talent, face painters, and playmakers with selfies frames and QR codes to encourage fans to take selfies and submit on Cityzens platform for the monthly and end of season ‘Walk to the Match’ selfie competitions.

The competitions, which will commence this weekend at the Tottenham Hotspur fixture and run until the end of the season, are open to all Cityzens and each entry will be considered for a prize. Prize draws for a player signed shirt will take place monthly along as well as a grand prize draw at the end of the season.

More information on competitions and how to enter coming soon.

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Cycling – Love To Ride

For fans wishing to cycle there are over 300 bike storage spaces across the Etihad Campus. The largest storage facility is underneath the Nexen Tyre Bridge near Ashton New Road and on Joe Mercer Way and there are additional storage facilities outside of the East and West Stands and around the wider Etihad Campus.

Security guards are located at the storage facilities so that fans can leave their bikes with confidence and bicycle helmets can be brought into the stadium subject to security searches and kept in a small bag under your seat.

Across Manchester city centre, Trafford and Salford, the Starling Bank Bikes provide fans with a cheap, convenient and quick option for travelling to the stadium, with several docking stations across the Etihad Campus, more information about these and the bikes can be found here.

Last season the Club collaborated with Love To Ride encouraging fans to cycle to matches to be in with the chance of winning some great prizes and we are pleased to announce these competitions will continue in the 2025/26 Season.

Register on the Manchester City Love To Ride website and log your bike rides to home matches in the Love To Ride app to climb the leaderboard and be in with the chance of winning an exciting prize.

You can find out more information about Love To Ride and where to download the app here.

Further information on matchday travel can be found on our dedicated Travel & Transport Hub.