Key ambitions:
– Modernise and improve stadium capacity from 37,645 to c.53,000 seats
– Significant increase to general admission seating, which at present would make Elland Road the seventh largest club stadium in the country
– A core architectural design objective is to maintain and enhance the unique atmosphere
– Phased approach to construction to minimise loss of seating capacity during the project
– Bring Elland Road in line with UEFA Category 4 status, to be amongst the elite in European stadia
– Expert team, combining global stadium experience with local specialist knowledge, assembled to deliver artist’s impressions and planning submission
Boris_Ignatievich on
Love that the line about adding a mass transit route to the ground makes it in, feel like I’ve heard that for about 25 years at this point
Elchipper26 on
Would be some atmosphere with 53000 inside.
JaminSousaphone on
Are they by any chance announcing it today to try and steal some thunder from Man Utd?
CoventryClimax on
Visiting fans in 2029:
My, Elland Road, you’ve… you’ve enhanced yourself
BakersDozen22 on
That’s going to look fantastic on Sky Sports Leeds.
NotLifeOfTy on
A school, for ants?!
Owz182 on
I do love the use of “reimagine” as if all conventional stadium design will be forgotten. Let’s have it inside out where the fans sit in the middle and the pitch is in a ring around them.
Dead_Namer on
Good news for them, it will probably take about 20 years will all the permissions, NIMBYS and appeals.
We have been trying for a new ground for 20 years, we tried a new training ground but Brentford NIMBYS kept on appealing because it would harm the lesser spotted, striped earthworm or something.
We had to build a new training ground in secret and it was done while they were still appealing where they thought we were going to build.
TescosTigerLoaf on
Big single tier rail seated kop please. Make the west as big as the east and have as many wanky tourist seats as you want over there. Reunite all the loud fans in the improved kop, then rebuild the south and stick away fans back in there.
I really don’t like this modern standard of giving as few away seats as possible, it was great back in the day when a big club would fill the south and cheese.
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Key ambitions:
– Modernise and improve stadium capacity from 37,645 to c.53,000 seats
– Significant increase to general admission seating, which at present would make Elland Road the seventh largest club stadium in the country
– A core architectural design objective is to maintain and enhance the unique atmosphere
– Phased approach to construction to minimise loss of seating capacity during the project
– Bring Elland Road in line with UEFA Category 4 status, to be amongst the elite in European stadia
– Expert team, combining global stadium experience with local specialist knowledge, assembled to deliver artist’s impressions and planning submission
Love that the line about adding a mass transit route to the ground makes it in, feel like I’ve heard that for about 25 years at this point
Would be some atmosphere with 53000 inside.
Are they by any chance announcing it today to try and steal some thunder from Man Utd?
Visiting fans in 2029:
My, Elland Road, you’ve… you’ve enhanced yourself
That’s going to look fantastic on Sky Sports Leeds.
A school, for ants?!
I do love the use of “reimagine” as if all conventional stadium design will be forgotten. Let’s have it inside out where the fans sit in the middle and the pitch is in a ring around them.
Good news for them, it will probably take about 20 years will all the permissions, NIMBYS and appeals.
We have been trying for a new ground for 20 years, we tried a new training ground but Brentford NIMBYS kept on appealing because it would harm the lesser spotted, striped earthworm or something.
We had to build a new training ground in secret and it was done while they were still appealing where they thought we were going to build.
Big single tier rail seated kop please. Make the west as big as the east and have as many wanky tourist seats as you want over there. Reunite all the loud fans in the improved kop, then rebuild the south and stick away fans back in there.
I really don’t like this modern standard of giving as few away seats as possible, it was great back in the day when a big club would fill the south and cheese.