davieG Posted 13 February 2014 Posted 13 February 2014 An additional tier will be built behind each goal Continue reading the main story Related Stories Man City seek stadium expansion Man City planning to expand Etihad Work to start on football academy Plans to increase the capacity of Manchester City's stadium from 48,000 to about 62,000 have been approved. The Premier League club is adding a third tier to the North and South stands. These will each include about 6,250 seats, and a further 2,000 pitch-side seats will be added. The expansion will see the Etihad Stadium become the second largest in the Premier League, behind Manchester United's Old Trafford. Councillors gave the go-ahead for the expansion, aiming to be completed by the 2015-16 season, at a Manchester City Council planning committee meeting earlier. City moved to the stadium in 2003. It initially had a capacity of 38,000 when it was built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Premier League Ground Capacity Arsenal Emirates Stadium 60,361 Aston Villa Villa Park 42,788 Cardiff City Cardiff City Stadium 26,828 Chelsea Stamford Bridge 41,837 Crystal Palace Selhurst Park 26,309 Everton Goodison Park 40,221 Fulham Craven Cottage 25,700 Hull City KC Stadium 25,404 Liverpool Anfield 45,525 Manchester City Etihad Stadium 48,000 Manchester United Old Trafford 75,811 Newcastle United St James' Park 52,387 Norwich City Carrow Road 27,010 Southampton St Mary's Stadium 32,689 Stoke City Britannia Stadium 27,740 Sunderland Stadium of Light 49,000 Swansea City Liberty Stadium 22,500 Tottenham Hotspur White Hart Lane 36,230 West Bromwich Albion The Hawthorns 26,272 West Ham United Upton Park 35,016
Voll Blau Posted 13 February 2014 Posted 13 February 2014 Anyone want to join my sweepstake on when we'll see the first mongy "Emptihad" pun on Twitter?
Munshi Posted 13 February 2014 Posted 13 February 2014 Will the away fans stay in the same place then? I don't really get why they'd expand as they don't always even sell out.
AKCJ Posted 13 February 2014 Posted 13 February 2014 I'm guessing away fans will be put up in the gods then.
Kitchandro Posted 13 February 2014 Posted 13 February 2014 All stadiums will be too big eventually. Most clubs think they're just a bit bigger than they are. I've always thought the ends of the ground looked really small, but they should have just designed it better in the first place.
davieG Posted 13 February 2014 Author Posted 13 February 2014 If the PL clubs used their TV monies to significantly reduce prices many of them could probably justify expanding their grounds. Do you think LCFC could get 40k+ in the PL if ticket prices were a max of £10?
Fox92 Posted 13 February 2014 Posted 13 February 2014 All stadiums will be too big eventually. Most clubs think they're just a bit bigger than they are. I've always thought the ends of the ground looked really small, but they should have just designed it better in the first place. It wasn't designed/created for Manchester City/footballing reasons. It was for the commonwealth games, I'm pretty sure a running track was removed after, and after the games finished Manchester City agreed to move in so the stadium had a future. That area of Manchester is pretty sporty, the national cycling centre is opposite the ground.
Webbo Posted 13 February 2014 Posted 13 February 2014 If the PL clubs used their TV monies to significantly reduce prices many of them could probably justify expanding their grounds. Do you think LCFC could get 40k+ in the PL if ticket prices were a max of £10? For some games, I doubt we'd sell out against the likes of Cardiff or Crystal Palace if they were selling them for a pound.
Iwan is a Welshman Posted 13 February 2014 Posted 13 February 2014 If the PL clubs used their TV monies to significantly reduce prices many of them could probably justify expanding their grounds. Do you think LCFC could get 40k+ in the PL if ticket prices were a max of £10? Possibly, if we set the League alight with a slick no-fear attacking style. Then one of the big clubs would sign our best players, and we'd end up playing Bournemouth at home in front of 22,000 empty seats.
AndWhat? Posted 13 February 2014 Posted 13 February 2014 Hopefully be able to add some safe standing in there as well.
Stadt Posted 13 February 2014 Posted 13 February 2014 The introduction of rail seats would be an ample expansion size if we were to consolidate ourselves as a premier league side, if a large proportion of the Kop was changed to safe standing it'd probably bump our capacity to around 35-37k. Yeah, if 3000 seats (maybe a little bit wishful) were changed to rail seats using the ratio of 1.5 rail seats to normals seats you're getting an extra 1500 added on to the capacity which is a fair amount lower than what I thought but the FSF website (not completely sure) states that you can get a ratio of 1.8 but I don't think they do that though because 'it makes it harder to control the crowd'.
Jace Posted 13 February 2014 Posted 13 February 2014 This was the original design for the commonwealth games
Out Foxed Posted 13 February 2014 Posted 13 February 2014 If the PL clubs used their TV monies to significantly reduce prices many of them could probably justify expanding their grounds. Do you think LCFC could get 40k+ in the PL if ticket prices were a max of £10? easily
Hollism Posted 14 February 2014 Posted 14 February 2014 If the PL clubs used their TV monies to significantly reduce prices many of them could probably justify expanding their grounds. Do you think LCFC could get 40k+ in the PL if ticket prices were a max of £10? Less than £200 for a PL season ticket? We could sell 50k
deejdeej Posted 14 February 2014 Posted 14 February 2014 One of the best looking stadiums in the country I think. The more successful they are the more glory fans they'll attract and within a decade or so, it'll probably be full most weeks. Fair play to them, don't mind Man City at all its United and Chelsea I can't stand, not too keen on Arsenal either.. or Spurs.
Ashley Posted 14 February 2014 Posted 14 February 2014 This was the original design for the commonwealth games This might sound stupid but where did the add the third tier down the sides? Did they dig further down into the ground?
Fox92 Posted 14 February 2014 Posted 14 February 2014 This might sound stupid but where did the add the third tier down the sides? Did they dig further down into the ground? They removed the track and lowered the ground to make way for the extra seating. Apparently the stands were temporary so they were knocked down and real stands built. I've been once, our 3-0 win under Adams, but Maine Road is one of those grounds I wish I'd visit and at the minute I only live a 10 minute bus journey away from Maine Road but there's nothing there apart from housing.
Stadt Posted 14 February 2014 Posted 14 February 2014 Definitely one of the better looking newer grounds.
Jace Posted 15 February 2014 Posted 15 February 2014 This might sound stupid but where did the add the third tier down the sides? Did they dig further down into the ground? They removed the track and lowered the ground to make way for the extra seating. Apparently the stands were temporary so they were knocked down and real stands built. I've been once, our 3-0 win under Adams, but Maine Road is one of those grounds I wish I'd visit and at the minute I only live a 10 minute bus journey away from Maine Road but there's nothing there apart from housing. As what Fox92 said if you look at the 3rd pic down on the right hand side they designed it so the ground level tier was indeed the 2nd tier so they would dig deeper and carry on the steel work for the bottom tier. If you look at the left hand side you can see the bottom of the 2nd tier has been hidden away by temporary seating to make it look like the tier is built to the ground level.
Ashley Posted 16 February 2014 Posted 16 February 2014 As what Fox92 said if you look at the 3rd pic down on the right hand side they designed it so the ground level tier was indeed the 2nd tier so they would dig deeper and carry on the steel work for the bottom tier. If you look at the left hand side you can see the bottom of the 2nd tier has been hidden away by temporary seating to make it look like the tier is built to the ground level.I done some reading into this and apprently the first tier was already built under the running track. Technology these days aye
Jace Posted 17 February 2014 Posted 17 February 2014 I done some reading into this and apprently the first tier was already built under the running track. Technology these days aye I'm quite interested to see what the Olympic Park will turn out like looks quite interesting with the bottom tier that moves in towards the pitch and back out for the running track
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 11 March 2014 Posted 11 March 2014 Man City have always had good solid support so no surprise this really
Fox92 Posted 11 March 2014 Posted 11 March 2014 Man City have always had good solid support so no surprise this really They have. When they were at Maine Road, they were still getting 30k-35k even in League One.
SystonFox Posted 11 March 2014 Posted 11 March 2014 AGUEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoOOOoOOOOoooOoOoOOooOooooOOOOO
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