Supporters
The club spearheaded an initiative in 2007 to slash the price of watching professional football for the 2007–08 season. As a result season tickets to watch Bradford City were the cheapest in England at £138, the equivalent of £6 per match. When the offer finished at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, 31 July 2007, the club confirmed the amount of season tickets sold was 12,019. The scheme enabled the club to top the average league attendances for Football League Two during the 2007–08 season, attracting more than three times more than any other club. The club won the Perform Best Fan Marketing campaign category in The Football League Awards for the scheme and earned them an invitation to the Houses of Parliament. The club aimed to attract 20,000 fans for the 2008–09 by offering a free season ticket to anyone buying a season ticket as long as 9,000 adults sign up, but they fell 704 short of the target. Joint-chairman Mark Lawn announced in November 2008 that season tickets in the Bradford End for the 2009–10 season would be available for just £99 and £138 for the rest of the ground if bought in December 2008.
Basic adult season ticket prices for season 2012–13 were set at £199 until 31 May 2012, they can now be bought for £299.
Bradford City has two official mascots—City Gent and Billy Bantam.
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