Just two clubs in the entire Football League offer a cheaper day out than Blackburn Rovers

The cheapest day out at Ewood Park, incorporating a matchday ticket (£12), a programme (£3), a pie (£2.50) and a cup of tea (£2.20), costs £19.70, an amount that only Championship rivals Sheffield Wednesday (£17.80) and Derby County (£18) can beat.

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The figures are revealed in this year’s BBC Sport Price of Football study.

The study also shows that just three clubs in the top five divisions of English football offer a cheaper matchday ticket than Rovers.

Rovers’ cheapest matchday ticket price costs £12 with only Derby and Sheffield Wednesday, and Conference Premier outfit Southport, offering a lower price of £10.

Rovers’ cheapest season ticket, costing £249, is the joint fourth lowest in the Championship after Charlton Athletic (£150), who offer the cheapest season ticket in English football’s four fully professional divisions, Blackpool (£195.30) and Birmingham City (£230).

Rovers’ most expensive season ticket costs £429, a figure lowered in the Championship by only Blackpool (£359) and Wigan Athletic (£385).

Only Wigan (£2.40) offer a cheaper priced pie in the Championship than Rovers (£2.50).

But Rovers’ adult replica shirt, costing £49.99, is the highest priced outside of the Premier League, and higher than 11 top-flight clubs.

The study shows that only two League Two clubs, Dagenham and Redbridge (£179) and Hartlepool United (£180), offer a cheaper season ticket than Accrington Stanley (£200).

Stanley’s most expensive season ticket costs £250, an amount equalled in the entire Football League by only League Two rivals Bury and League One’s Fleetwood Town.

Stanley’s price for a cup of tea, £1, is lowered only by Conference Premier side Braintree Town (80p).

The average price of the cheapest tickets across English football has risen at almost twice the rate of the cost of living since 2011.

The study shows that the average price of the cheapest matchday ticket from the Premier League to League Two has increased 13 per cent, compared to a 6.8 per cent increase in the cost of living during that time.

In the Premier League, the increase is 15.8 per cent, while it is 31.7 per cent in League One and 19 per cent in League Two. In the Championship, the average price has dropped 3.2 per cent.

Compared to 12 months ago, the cheapest matchday tickets in the top four divisions of English football is up 4.4 per cent from 12 months, from £20.58 to £21.49, more than treble the current rate of inflation which is 1.2 per cent.