Over 90% of Lazio season-ticket holders refuse to renew in Lotito protest | OneFootball

Lazio’s simmering revolt against owner Claudio Lotito has spilled onto the balance sheet, with the vast majority of the club’s season-ticket holders refusing to renew for the 2026-27 campaign.

According to Il Corriere dello Sport, via CalcioEFinanza, only a little over 2,000 supporters renewed during the opening phase of the campaign, reserved for existing holders, a non-renewal rate of 93.3%. It is a figure that lays bare the depth of the rift between a large part of the fanbase and the ownership.

The scale of the drop is striking. Last summer, 29,918 fans bought season tickets despite the club’s failure to qualify for Europe and an already tense atmosphere. Twelve months on, roughly 28,000 of them have so far declined to reclaim their seats. Between 2022 and 2026 the subscriber base had held remarkably steady at around 30,000, 26,193, then 30,333, 29,036 and 29,918 across the four seasons, making this year’s collapse all the more jarring.

Lazio President Claudio Lotito (Photo by Marco Rosi – SS Lazio/Getty Images)

Lotito protest could push Lazio towards a record low

A second, open sales phase runs until 20 August, but a recovery to previous levels looks unlikely. The current campaign could even approach the lowest point of Lotito’s tenure, which began in 2004: the nadir came in 2016, amid the fallout from Marcelo Bielsa’s aborted arrival and Simone Inzaghi’s subsequent promotion, when only around 4,000 tickets were sold.

This is not simply a reaction to results or transfer business.

The protest gathered pace in the second half of last season, with supporters staging a silent boycott at home games, before a July 2nd demonstration against the board and a “general assembly” of the fanbase at Rome’s Teatro Manzoni.

Organised groups urged fans not to renew and to follow the team only away from home, framing the sacrifice of their Olimpico seat as an “extreme but loving” act of dissent.

The consequences could stretch beyond the atmosphere. A largely empty Olimpico would dent the predictability of matchday and season-ticket income and weaken the club’s commercial pull, with earlier reports suggesting Lazio risk losing up to €20m should the boycott hold.