Stadium expansion size - what should it be?

[Bob Weasel Fox]

10 minutes ago, GaelicFox said:

Based on the fact we have had to go to general sale for the community shield I think any talk of a stadium expansion looks a bit silly right now 

 

hope the club wait till summer 2018 to even look at this ! 

 

I don't again want to be sat in a 3/4 filled stadium every week 

Honestly you must be joking

 

we sell out every game even when we were at the bottom season before last

 

anything other than a stadium expansion is just a criminal waste of potential

[GaelicFox]

16 minutes ago, Bob Weasel Fox said:

Honestly you must be joking

 

we sell out every game even when we were at the bottom season before last

 

anything other than a stadium expansion is just a criminal waste of potential

Tickets were always reaching the lowest membership bracket , all members really got accommodated , there was no huge over subscription 

 

The over subscription in memberships and demand only happened last year , in 2014/15 gold members were guaranteed tickets now it's a 1 in 3.5 chance 

 

when we were bottom in 2015 that is when we started to get interesting , also it was our first premier league season in a decade so there was that natural interest and people might have thought lets get along before we get relegated 

 

i think they will wait and see how we go over next two seasons 

[sphericalfox]

On 30 July 2016 at 16:06, LeiFosse 06 said:

Our average home attendance in my opinion would be 38-40k, and I think we'd get 45k for the big league games against Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal etc - and also Champions League nights would be a full house. This is why I feel an expansion to 45k would be sensible. 

Wow, let's see how we get on this season, before we assume to sit at the big boys table.

[Webbo]

I think 36,000 would be plenty 40,000 if you're optimistic. Talk of 45-50k is a bit silly imo.

[lcfcben76]

Just think that with Wembley not selling out I wouldn't want us to have empty seats, if we drop off in the next few years then we will be like Aston villa in the last few seasons, no expansion needed imo

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Even with the fact we haven't sold Wembley out I still think we could do 40k in Leicester. At the risk of sounding a bit of a twat, not every fan is commited enough to travel to Wembley for a pre season game, but would happily go into town to watch a home game. Put 6 or 7K on the top of the east stand, sorted. In the not too distant future put safe standing in the corner between the Kop and the East stand and add another thousand or so onto the capacity, sorted.

[GaelicFox]

2 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Even with the fact we haven't sold Wembley out I still think we could do 40k in Leicester. At the risk of sounding a bit of a twat, not every fan is commited enough to travel to Wembley for a pre season game, but would happily go into town to watch a home game. Put 6 or 7K on the top of the east stand, sorted. In the not too distant future put safe standing in the corner between the Kop and the East stand and add another thousand or so onto the capacity, sorted.

Actually that's probably the spot on if a small expansion is possible, I didn't realise a small expansion was possible , I was told it would be 100m to increase size owing to ground works and strengthening needed 

[Guest CityFan 06]

Success plays a real role in stadium attendances, granted, but I feel next season say we had a 40k seater stadium I still think we would fill at least 36-40k on a consistent basis. When we battling relegation in 2014/15 the ground was a sell out more or less every match. For me it's also the important aspect to change which is the amount of people that are potentially missing out on home tickets, particularly last season.

 

Top flight football will always bring in crowds and will contiune to draw in fans for Leicester City because it's about the best league in the world. We've filled the KP of 32k seats for two seasons running now, and I'm sure there could be thousands more City fans who would like to watch us more regularly at home games. Supporters from every English club in the Championship downwards, they all dream of seeing their club compete in the Premier League, and while we've got that, I would like to see more fans given an opportunity to get to games with an expansion. I'm blessed being a STH but I can understand the other side of it too.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

24 minutes ago, lcfcben76 said:

Just think that with Wembley not selling out I wouldn't want us to have empty seats, if we drop off in the next few years then we will be like Aston villa in the last few seasons, no expansion needed imo

Not selling out at Wembley dosesnt mean much, people are on holiday this time of year and it's a community Shield game not the FA Cup for example 

 

we need to realise our potential imo

 

if that is late 30 thousand or early 40 thousands remains to be seen

[Guest CityFan 06]

Hope this doesn't interfere with the other expansion thread as this was more of a research based thread, whereas I feel the other one needs to be used for proper discussion given it's been going a lot longer and has many more pages. Not sure if it's possible but can mods merge a thread with a poll that's included?  If so, it might be best merging this in the other expansion thread....

[Guest]

Stadiums should be made on the penis idea. The more exciting the game the more it expands. 

[foxfanazer]

42k seems about right to me. I feel the fanbase is there, just look at the victory parade! Ok there were plenty just there for a piss up and loads of daytrippers but even so it was amazing to see that sort of turnout

[Sly]

Building a new stadium is just out of the question. The ground works and construction costs would top £100,000,000. If's not really a good return on investment. It would take years to re-coup that sort of money. It's why West Ham have such a great deal. 

 

Whoever did the feasibility study prior to the construction of the KP sadly got it all wrong. Any lifetime planning was sadly just forgotten as the infrastructure around currently wouldn't support an increased capacity. I'm not sure if we may have potentially land sold off during our administration period that was marked down for this? 

 

Leicester as a whole has this issue. Welford Road faces the same challenges. 

 

That aside, yes for the casual attendee tickets have been more difficult to come across within the past two seasons, though like others have said, a change in form, relegation to the Championship, would we fill an increased capacity stadium?

 

We aren't solely a Football centric city like Derby, Nottingham etc. Do we have the right demographic within the local catchment area to fill a 45,000 - 50,000 stadium?  

 

The Board will make calculated risks. Our first point of call is to prove last season wasn't a flash in the pan. We don't want to end up like Coventry. 

[yorkie1999]

I reckon if they lower the pitch by 15 feet and put 5 rows at the front of the stands up to the grass edges, they could get another 4000 fans in.

[Guest]

put the money into new players and wages.

[Guest]

Just now, FIF said:

put the money into new players and wages.

and then add HD TV in the car park for fans to watch for free outside the stadium.

[Vestan Pance]

14 hours ago, GaelicFox said:

Based on the fact we have had to go to general sale for the community shield I think any talk of a stadium expansion looks a bit silly right now 

 

hope the club wait till summer 2018 to even look at this ! 

 

I don't again want to be sat in a 3/4 filled stadium every week 

That says more about the appeal of the Community Shield than it does about our support. They'll be plenty of empty seats but they won't be the ones that have been on sale to City fans.

[AKCJ]

14 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Even with the fact we haven't sold Wembley out I still think we could do 40k in Leicester. At the risk of sounding a bit of a twat, not every fan is commited enough to travel to Wembley for a pre season game, but would happily go into town to watch a home game. Put 6 or 7K on the top of the east stand, sorted. In the not too distant future put safe standing in the corner between the Kop and the East stand and add another thousand or so onto the capacity, sorted.

Entirely to do with the membership system.

 

We have about 27k members/season ticket holders.

 

We were never going to sell them all.

[sly1]

45000 is plenty

[Collymore]

7 hours ago, yorkie1999 said:

I reckon if they lower the pitch by 15 feet and put 5 rows at the front of the stands up to the grass edges, they could get another 4000 fans in.

That'd be a hell of an excavation, not to mention having to re-plum all of the under soil heating..

[Sol thewall Bamba]

7 hours ago, yorkie1999 said:

I reckon if they lower the pitch by 15 feet and put 5 rows at the front of the stands up to the grass edges, they could get another 4000 fans in.

That would be awesome, the front rows would be right on top of the pitch! 

[yorkie1999]

2 hours ago, Collymore said:

That'd be a hell of an excavation, not to mention having to re-plum all of the under soil heating..

It wouldn't need under soil heating as the pitch would be 15 feet closer to the earths magma.

[Collymore]

2 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

It wouldn't need under soil heating as the pitch would be 15 feet closer to the earths magma.

Yeah.. but with these things there's always drawbacks...

 

 

 

[yorkie1999]

2 minutes ago, Collymore said:

Yeah.. but with these things there's always drawbacks...

 

 

 

Swimming pool for the kids thrown in as well. Bonus.

[norwichfox]

On 03/08/2016 at 11:50, Collymore said:

Yeah.. but with these things there's always drawbacks...

 

 

 

A water polo pitch would appear to the owners....the horses might not like it though...