New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[Gallaeo]

Anfield holds 5 or 6 concerts every summer at exactly the time an international football competition normally takes place, it would be interesting to see what kind of money they make from them as opposed to whatever share they would get off UEFA for hosting some games. Maybe they decided the concerts were more important to them. Either way we benefit - and the city as a whole, June-July 2028 should be great for the city.

Presumably we’ll be competing for said concerts when we aren’t hosting Europe’s premier competition?

Regardless of how much either gets in 2026, the status of our stadium hosting and representing the city is superb!

 

[Frenk]

Presumably we’ll be competing for said concerts when we aren’t hosting Europe’s premier competition?

Regardless of how much either gets in 2026, the status of our stadium hosting and representing the city is superb!

Too right we will especially when you consider the future development that will happen in the area, once it’s all in place it there wont even be a decision to make. Doubters will see and will eventually eat their words.

 

[Makis]

For a 65,000 stadium I'd sell any of the players

Why? Is stadium size so important you would happily watch the club in the Championship as long as the stadium is 65k?

I would think most fans want to watch a good team on the pitch rather than count seats.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Agreed, starting with the boring beauts crying about not enough seats

I'd start with the ones crying about prayer rooms even though it doesn't affect them

 

[brieverton]

I'd expect the club to compete for these concerts etc.

Is there any economic case for a roof and making it more all purpose and atttacting other events?

I know that's a longer term thing as well, but with the debate on increasing capacity, I'm more interested in revenue generation and maximising transfer funds.

Anything I've read on increasing capacity suggests it's cost prohibitive and with diminishing returns.

 

[Chewbacca]

Anfield holds 5 or 6 concerts every summer at exactly the time an international football competition normally takes place, it would be interesting to see what kind of money they make from them as opposed to whatever share they would get off UEFA for hosting some games. Maybe they decided the concerts were more important to them. Either way we benefit - and the city as a whole, June-July 2028 should be great for the city.

They decided nothing. Anfield isn’t fit to host European Championship football

 

[SLAVEN BILIC]

Anfield holds 5 or 6 concerts every summer at exactly the time an international football competition normally takes place, it would be interesting to see what kind of money they make from them as opposed to whatever share they would get off UEFA for hosting some games. Maybe they decided the concerts were more important to them. Either way we benefit - and the city as a whole, June-July 2028 should be great for the city.

Nothing to do with that, Anfield’s pitch is too small to host UEFA finals or tournaments. They were never even considered so no decision for them to make.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Nothing to do with that, Anfield’s pitch is too small to host UEFA finals or tournaments. They were never even considered so no decision for them to make.

They did though as they could have easily addressed the issue when building their new end to give the extra 4m required.

 

[Double Negative]

They did though as they could have easily addressed the issue when building their new end to give the extra 4m required.

They added to the top of the stand…

 

[Timbucktoo]

Nothing to do with that, Anfield’s pitch is too small to host UEFA finals or tournaments. They were never even considered so no decision for them to make.

They are probably sorry they didn`t knock down another street or two of peoples houses so they could have gained they extra couple of meters they needed to comply with UEFA.

 

[The binman chronicles]

They added to the top of the stand…

They did, but they were also messing around with the seats in the bottom tier, installing some rail seats etc. Whatever, during one of the summer breaks they could have easily cut back a few rows and installed the pull out variants that Spurs use when not in NFL configuration.

 

[9LeagueTitles5FACups]

This is the most ridiculous stadium plan ever, they can’t even fill St Andrews !!!

Where are they going to find 60k plus fans when they have Aston Villa, Wolves and Forest near by ?

They are risking the clubs future if they saddle a league 1 side with a 60k stadium debt

Birmingham City - Change in attendance figures

Die Entwicklung der Besucherzahlen zeigt an, wie sich das Zuschauerinteresse für den Verein Birmingham im Vergleich der Saisons entwickelt hat.

www.transfermarkt.co.uk

This shows that their attendances vary quite a bit year-on-year. Last season they saw an increase in average attendance despite being saddled in the third tier. If you ask me, they have next to no chance of filling a 60,000-seater stadium when they can barely fill a 29,404-seater stadium.

 

[Frenk]

I was looking at Dan Meis’ website the other day and it says quite clearly on his website

“ The proposed stadium capacity is 52,000 seats with the potential to rise to 62,000 seats in the future.”

Are they referring to safe standing capacity?

 

[Back On The Grass]

All the availability I can see on the website is still showing 4 seats remaining for the loge seats (they're the ones priced at 4k each for the derby)

The only one which I can see updated is for Village street against Brighton where it says only 5 tickets left.

Had a look this morning, prices have fallen for most of the least attractive games, Burnley the "cheapest" at £299 now

 

[allen]

I was looking at Dan Meis’ website the other day and it says quite clearly on his website

“ The proposed stadium capacity is 52,000 seats with the potential to rise to 62,000 seats in the future.”

Are they referring to safe standing capacity?

I think a lot of the language on that site is quite dated. I know as well that Meis himself fielded a lot of the fan uneasiness about the capacity, so it may have been written in response to that climate.

Ultimately, we didn't build what Meis designed. We built a rationalised version of his design produced by Pattern.

This is the image that accompanies the entry on the Meis site - it's very different to what we got: