An adult Kilmarnock supporter heading to Ibrox on Saturday will be asked to hand over £34 to watch their team. Hibernian fans eager to be at their new manager's debut match at Tannadice will have to part with £30. Dundee punters at Falkirk will have to pay £28, as will St Mirren followers at Tynecastle.
All that before you factor in travel, food and whatever else comes with a day at the football. Further down the SPFL, the entry fee drops. But Morton fans could still pay £24 at Arbroath in the Championship; Hamilton supporters £21 at Alloa in League 1; and Kelty Hearts followers £18 at Stirling Albion in League 2.
So how much is too much for a match ticket? The SPFL regularly trumpets the fact that Scotland's top flight is the best attended in Europe per head of population. But does the rising cost of going to games put that status at risk?
What can we learn from elsewhere? And what - if anything - might change? We asked all 42 SPFL clubs how much they charge visiting supporters and below are the figures that they provided.
Within each of the four divisions, prices for adult tickets are broadly similar between the different clubs. The graphics below capture the most expensive and the cheapest price at each ground, with the actual figure changing based on the opponent, location in the stadium, and whether the ticket is bought in advance. A greater variation comes among concession prices, with many clubs offering free child entry with a paying adult, among other deals.
The graphs do not shown these promotions, but rather the range of prices for any kind of individually-bought ticket. Aberdeen fan Glen Schreuder: "I'd like to see an away ticket cap. One of the reasons I don't do much away travel anymore is because it is becoming unaffordable with the rise in not just ticket prices but general prices." Celtic fan Paddy Loughran: "Fans should be in unison in trying to put this argument to the league.
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