Carlisle United have extended a season-ticket offer in the hope that enough fans will sign up and help them reduce prices.

An early buy and renewal period, intended to close last week, has now been prolonged to next Monday.

The Blues are hoping to hit two targets, for terrace and seating season-tickets, that will trigger discounts for fans who are already on board for the 2017/18 season.

United say they have already sold more season tickets than for the whole of last season.

They now want to hit their early-buy and renewal targets of 600 adult and senior terracing season tickets and 1,200 adult and senior seating season tickets in order for further discounts to kick in.

They have currently sold 492 of the former and 900 of the latter.

Carlisle's ticket office manager Tarn Simmons said: “We’ve extended the deadline because we want to give our fans a further opportunity to make significant savings and we want to do everything we can to get as many people as we can into Brunton Park for every game next season.

“Sales are up significantly on the same stage last year and we want to thank our fans for their loyalty and for the backing they gave us last season.

"They did everything they could to get us over the line and it looks like they’ll be playing their part again come August.”

United have so far sold 1,840 season tickets in total, 100 more than last season.

Simon Clarkson, chairman of the Carlisle United Supporters' Groups, said of the deadline extension: "It gives fans who have already had to pay for home and away leg play-off tickets the chance to make use of another end-of-month pay day.

"Hopefully it will bring a big final push and we’ll see both the terracing and seating discount targets reached before the new deadline expires."

The new early buy and renewal deadline is 5pm on Monday, June 5.