I know Man City will move into a new stadium next year. It's suppose to be real nice, better than Maine Road. Are there other teams in the EPL getting new stadiums or who are playing in new stadiums?
http://www.footballgroundguide.co.uk arsenal are moving to a new 60 thousand seater stadium. Its supposed to be finished in 05 but if not mistaken they are running into problems. liverpool is also moving to a 60 thousand seater.
In a few years time if it all goes to plan. New stadiums (capacity) [ready for] Liverpool - (55,000) [2006/07] Arsenal - (60,000) Everton - (55,000) Fulham - (35,000) Already built new stadiums Manchester City (48,000) City Of Manchester Stadium Southampton ST Marys Also, Middlesbrough and Sunderland stadiums are fairly new.
Well, the 2 Merseyside stadiums are proposals. Could be a year or two before deals are fully financed and construction started. Has anyone been to City's new ground yet? What are the facilites like?
Not being pedantic (well maybe I am) but Fulham aren't stricly getting a 'new' ground. Craven Cottage is simply being re-vamped.
Liverpool are definitely moving into a new stadium, less than a mile from Anfield just inside Stanley Park. It had been mooted that Everton (who play on the opposite corner of Stanley Park to Anfield, about a mile away) would move to a new stadium at a site on the Liverpool docks around the same time. However, there are now rumours that they will move into Anfield for two years after Liverpool move into their new ground and tear down Goodison and rebuild it before moving back to a new stadium at their spiritual home. Fulham's situation is fluid. Al-Fayed has permission to rebuild Craven Cottage into a 30,000 seat stadium but has said he will not invest in anything less than 34,000 seats. The ground is worth a lot of money as a piece of property, and the suspicion is that he is simply setting the figure to give himself an excuse to sell it off, thereafter either building an entirely new ground elsewhere in west London, or ending up sharing Loftus Road, Stamford Bridge, or whatever. There are almost no "old" stadiums left in the Premiership. Many are altogether new (Southampton, Bolton, Middlesboro) and most others are so completely rebuilt as to be unrecognisable from what they were as little as a decade ago (ManUre, Newcastle, Chelsea). The closest things to "old" grounds now in the Premiership are probably Maine Road, Loftus Road, and Elland Road. Of those, the first is being replaced next year, the middle is a temporary ground, and if Leeds weren't brassic they'd also be on the move in the very near future. Probably a good idea to visit the few cathedrals of football like Anfield now, while they last, because they'll doubtless be replaced with Reebok/Stadium of Light/Riverside-style soul-less monstrosities before too much longer.
I thought Leeds were getting a new place. Has their current financial woe put those plans on hold? And I agree about how awful it is that very shortly, there won't be grounds left that have any style of their own. Though happy to say one of them left is Loftus Road, even if you can't see the pitch from various places.