Rovers have set an ambitious target for season ticket sales as they look to build on the positivity of their promotion winning campaign.

Ewood chief executive Steve Waggott hopes the arrival of new signings in the coming weeks will help further boost the figures as Rovers prepare for life back in the Championship.

Rovers want to sell more than 10,000 season tickets to boost to finances for the return to the second tier. The average crowd at Ewood in 2016/17, when Rovers were relegated, was 12,688.

But, after 27,600 watched the final day win over Oxford United on May 5, Waggott hopes to see positive figures on season ticket sales.

He told the Lancashire Telegraph: “I’ve put a big stretch target to season ticket sales because of the positive around the club and hopefully what we do with the current crop of players and the ones we’re looking to bring in.

“We put a stretch target in and we’re about 25 per cent towards that target already.

“We need as many fans in as possible, we need as many people in the stadium as possible.”

As well as season ticket sales, the Rovers coffers will also be boosted extra television money which will be in the region of £7m next season.

Rovers posted losses of nearly £4m in their most recent financial figures which took in the 2016/17 campaign.

Rovers, despite a season in League One, will be governed by the constraints of Financial Fair Play (FFP) - but they are not currently close to an embargo.

A number of Championship clubs, including losing play-off finalists Aston Villa, have already confirmed they will be cutting costs next season to avoid sanctions.

Rovers were under a transfer embargo from December 2014-December 2015.

This time around they will have money to spend in the transfer market after budget plans were finalised last month.

Waggott said: “We’re constrained to a certain level under that (FFP) but we have a bit of headroom to have some interest in the market.

“We’re under the umbrella of Financial Fair Play. It’s a three year cycle and up to £39m losses or equity from the owners.

“They will go back three years, whether in the Championship or League One, and look at operating losses, equity injection, and you’re allowed £39m headroom.

“If you breach it then you can go in to embargo and you have sanctions.”

On potential summer transfer business, Waggott added: “We have a great recruitment department that we are pulling together.

“We have targets, they are looking at them and they (the owners) know they can trust him (Tony Mowbray).”