Attendances

[spacecadet]

Is the North Stand expansion definitely 100% happening?
Heard/read so much on here I honestly can't remember.

They have the planning permission to do it, but there are no immediate plans to expand the North Stand at present. I think they are planning on seeing how things go with the South Stand redevelopment in terms of demand for tickets etc before making a decision.

Thanks Ric.

 

[worsleyweb]

Is the North Stand expansion definitely 100% happening?
Heard/read so much on here I honestly can't remember.

They have the planning permission to do it, but there are no immediate plans to expand the North Stand at present. I think they are planning on seeing how things go with the South Stand redevelopment in terms of demand for tickets etc before making a decision.

Thanks Ric.

Its not that, they are just waiting for the sheik to say to say go for it - its linked to what's happening on the collar site - so as soon as that is signed off the power capacity issues for the area in general can be addressed and work will progress.

The huge crane was built by LOR especially for this project and will be used on the North Stand. It will happen 100% just a question of when - as will the East and West eventually - my guess would be 2017-18 completed up to 62,000. I would hope we will see our East and West stands done early in the 2020s to take us above the scaffold swamp. City were seriously looking at 100k+ capacity stadium on the Collar site. They had no issue over worries about filling it.

Going to be a very different that area in ten years. Exciting times.

 

[Gary James]

THE NORTH STAND (originally referred to as the Scoreboard End):
Original terracing until demolition commenced in 1970. New terraced stand opened in 1971 and became seated in 1972.
Final capacity: 8,527
Seated capacity in 1972: 8,120
Original standing capacity: c.18,000
Standing capacity 1971/2 season: 22,000

MAINE ROAD PROGRESSIVE CAPACITY
· 1923 – 84,000
· 1931 – 86,000
· 1935 – 88,000
· 1946 – 84,000
· 1953 – 76,500
· 1957 – 77,000
· 1963 – 64,000
· 1972 – 54,500
· 1973 – 52,600
· 1989 – 48,500
· 1992 – 39,359
· 1994 – 19,150*
· 1995 – 31,458
· 1997 – 32,147
· 1999 – 34,026
· 2000 – 34,421
· 2002 – 35,150

The first picture is a great one of the crossover between the old and new North Stand. Never seen that before.
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It's in Gary James excellent book "Farewell to Maine Road" - if you don't own it, buy it!! ;)

Thanks for the comments about my book. Much appreciated and a book I loved researching & writing. Actually all those stats are from that book. The photo is by Richard Tucker, a guy who has been capturing great images of a City since the 1950s. His website is rtfract.com and well worth a visit - please respect copyright though. His images have a value and took a lot to capture, gather and develop over the years.

 

[tonea2003]

They have the planning permission to do it, but there are no immediate plans to expand the North Stand at present. I think they are planning on seeing how things go with the South Stand redevelopment in terms of demand for tickets etc before making a decision.

Thanks Ric.

Its not that, they are just waiting for the sheik to say to say go for it - its linked to what's happening on the collar site - so as soon as that is signed off the power capacity issues for the area in general can be addressed and work will progress.

The huge crane was built by LOR especially for this project and will be used on the North Stand. It will happen 100% just a question of when - as will the East and West eventually - my guess would be 2017-18 completed up to 62,000. I would hope we will see our East and West stands done early in the 2020s to take us above the scaffold swamp. City were seriously looking at 100k+ capacity stadium on the Collar site. They had no issue over worries about filling it.

Going to be a very different that area in ten years. Exciting times.

a very comforting post on a cold friday morning

 

[Marvin]

We already know the 54k will be full for League games because the season tickets are already part sold and we'll have around 45k season ticket holders depending on how many the club are prepared to release.

The Cup games should sell out too based on what we're seeing at the moment. The only issue I see is pricing for the Champions League games. These need to be lowered.

A bigger stadium creates demand, because it's a bigger buzz. The reason most kids get hooked o football is because of the energy of a crowd.

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

We already know the 54k will be full for League games because the season tickets are already part sold and we'll have around 45k season ticket holders depending on how many the club are prepared to release.

The Cup games should sell out too based on what we're seeing at the moment. The only issue I see is pricing for the Champions League games. These need to be lowered.

A bigger stadium creates demand, because it's a bigger buzz. The reason most kids get hooked o football is because of the energy of a crowd.

Its not down to the club to how many season tickets they release a certain % has to be held back for match day sales.it dosnt matter how many are in the ground to me but my gut feeling is most cat c games would struggle to sell out .but so what.don't agree with you that a crowd influences a kids to follow a team I think there are a lot more factors than that.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

We already know the 54k will be full for League games because the season tickets are already part sold and we'll have around 45k season ticket holders depending on how many the club are prepared to release.

The Cup games should sell out too based on what we're seeing at the moment. The only issue I see is pricing for the Champions League games. These need to be lowered.

A bigger stadium creates demand, because it's a bigger buzz. The reason most kids get hooked o football is because of the energy of a crowd.

Up until now the main incentive of the Cup schemes was always to guarantee a ticket for Wembley etc.
I wonder how this works once the number of season ticket holders and cup scheme members increase.

 

[Victoria-bahs]

We already know the 54k will be full for League games because the season tickets are already part sold and we'll have around 45k season ticket holders depending on how many the club are prepared to release.

The Cup games should sell out too based on what we're seeing at the moment. The only issue I see is pricing for the Champions League games. These need to be lowered.

A bigger stadium creates demand, because it's a bigger buzz. The reason most kids get hooked o football is because of the energy of a crowd.

Up until now the main incentive of the Cup schemes was always to guarantee a ticket for Wembley etc.
I wonder how this works once the number of season ticket holders and cup scheme members increase.

save your token in the program and the front page of your away program ;))))))))

like i use to do ;)

 

[tonea2003]

We already know the 54k will be full for League games because the season tickets are already part sold and we'll have around 45k season ticket holders depending on how many the club are prepared to release.

The Cup games should sell out too based on what we're seeing at the moment. The only issue I see is pricing for the Champions League games. These need to be lowered.

A bigger stadium creates demand, because it's a bigger buzz. The reason most kids get hooked o football is because of the energy of a crowd.

Up until now the main incentive of the Cup schemes was always to guarantee a ticket for Wembley etc.
I wonder how this works once the number of season ticket holders and cup scheme members increase.

no reason for it to change as its running now

 

[Manchester_lalala]

They have the planning permission to do it, but there are no immediate plans to expand the North Stand at present. I think they are planning on seeing how things go with the South Stand redevelopment in terms of demand for tickets etc before making a decision.

Thanks Ric.

Its not that, they are just waiting for the sheik to say to say go for it - its linked to what's happening on the collar site - so as soon as that is signed off the power capacity issues for the area in general can be addressed and work will progress.

The huge crane was built by LOR especially for this project and will be used on the North Stand. It will happen 100% just a question of when - as will the East and West eventually - my guess would be 2017-18 completed up to 62,000. I would hope we will see our East and West stands done early in the 2020s to take us above the scaffold swamp. City were seriously looking at 100k+ capacity stadium on the Collar site. They had no issue over worries about filling it.

Going to be a very different that area in ten years. Exciting times.

This post made me feel all warm and fuzzy. Very exciting.