Is there any real room in earls court for a 60,000 seater stadium?

I heard a rumour yesterday that the plans have been drawn up to redevelop Stamford Bridge into a 60,000 seater stadium. The feeling seems to be that it's the preferred option for all parties and will be approved. Not sure where the extra will go (though we were speculating), or if we'll have to move elsewhere while the building work is being done. Sounds promising though.

Anyone else heard similar?

 

Taken straight from the Chelsea FC website:

 

 

1. Could a 60,000 new-build stadium be delivered at Stamford Bridge? 

 

The architect and other consultants were asked to look at a complete new build at Stamford Bridge. 

 

The architect reviewed many possible shapes for the stadium and advised that an elliptical-shaped stadium would be the most efficient stadium design on the Stamford Bridge site. He therefore took a stadium design similar to the Emirates, and, allowing for the regulation-required 15 metre concourse all the way around the stadium, concluded that such a stadium could not fit on the current Stamford Bridge site. 

 

However, it could just fit on the area bounded by the railway lines and the Fulham Road, although decking would be required over the railway lines both for stadium construction and for emergency and normal ingress/egress and the concourse would come right up to the edge of the Fulham Road, necessitating the acquisition and demolition of nearly all of the homes and other buildings along this frontage of the Fulham Road. 

 

In addition the club would need to acquire significant additional land, including homes, offices and the Oswald Stoll property, as well as a number of homes whose rights of light would be significantly affected by a new, larger stadium.

 

 

If the club are rumoured to be serious about being a 60k stadium on the existing site then the part(s) in bold from the above quote would all have to of been agreed to and put in place which is a huge amount of work, we would probably have to play at another ground for what, three years?

 

Ground share with West Ham is on the table then. 

We could go to our second home Wembley!

Should have gone for the Olympic stadium. Can't believe West Ham are going to ever going to even half fill that.

Why don't we just buy Twickenham off the RFU? Then lease it back to them for the five days a year they actually use it.

I like that Idea englishman - my sister lives walking distance from Twickers!  It's more or less where I grew up so would fantastic idea for me!

Should have gone for the Olympic stadium. Can't believe West Ham are going to ever going to even half fill that.

Wrong side of London - would completely lose our identity.

Why don't we just buy Twickenham off the RFU? Then lease it back to them for the five days a year they actually use it.

 

It looks really shabby.

Wrong side of London - would completely lose our identity.

 

Dig it up and dump it on top of Craven Cottage.

It looks really shabby.

Really?  Have only been in it once since it was redeveloped and that was for a concert.  Seemed alright and certainly looks a lot better from the outside than it did 30 years or so ago !

Really?  Have only been in it once since it was redeveloped and that was for a concert.  Seemed alright and certainly looks a lot better from the outside than it did 30 years or so ago !

This is what i saw from images:

 

I like that Idea englishman - my sister lives walking distance from Twickers!  It's more or less where I grew up so would fantastic idea for me!

 

The idea is growing on me actually. 80,000 seats in a Chelsea stronghold. And it's already there! Better than paying the best part of a billion quid for an Emirates clone in White City or Old Oak!

One of the things that has always been levelled at us is the fact that we don't sell out SB so what would be the point in building a new ground or even increasing capacity. Several teams supporters and in particular dippers and spuds seem to be the main offenders

Have a look at this site http://www.soccerstats.com/attendance.asp?league=england_2013

Really interesting stuff particularly when you look at attendances as a% of capacity

How close is it to stamford bridge.

 

Also, i think the main reason it doesn't sell out is because ticket prices are so high, which is because we dont have the capacity of other teams..

GinoFC, on 27 Jan 2014 - 12:53 PM, said:

This is what i saw from images:

 

 

 

The second one is the side view - I don't think most stadiums look good around the edges.  Whenever I drive past it, it looks pretty impressive.  The front view is this:

 

Twickenham's about 7-8 miles from Fulham so not particularly close but, crucially for me, still West London.  I've no idea if it would ever be feasible, I'm just selfishly liking the idea because it's home turf for me (albeit I last lived in the area in my teens, which is a year or two back now....).  a few good pubs in the area, and I'd know where to park (ie at my sister's)

Edited January 27, 201412 yr by Beerqueen

The second one is the side view - I don't think most stadiums look good around the edges.  Whenever I drive past it, it looks pretty impressive.  The front view is this:

 

 

It does look nice from there. Maybe a bit of touching up to make it look more like a Chelsea stadium. Not too sure we could fill 82, 000 though.

I've been to Twickenham for a few rugby matches and it's a pretty nice stadium, but has little in the way of character.  There is no way we'd get it though, for one Six Nations is right in the middle of the Premier League season, and there is usually a Christmas tour for the Southern Hemisphere to come and spank us.  We're going to have to build our own if the Bridge can't be expanded which I'm actually fine with.  The designs for the Battersea stadium were magnificent, and even if we can't have that we can extrapolate that Roman wants to do something unique.

GinoFC, on 27 Jan 2014 - 1:16 PM, said:

It does look nice from there. Maybe a bit of touching up to make it look more like a Chelsea stadium. Not too sure we could fill 82, 000 though.

The capacity is 82,000

 

Sorry misread post - thought it said not sure what the capacity is for some reason. Doh!

Edited January 27, 201412 yr by Beerqueen

I've been to Twickenham for a few rugby matches and it's a pretty nice stadium, but has little in the way of character.  There is no way we'd get it though, for one Six Nations is right in the middle of the Premier League season, and there is usually a Christmas tour for the Southern Hemisphere to come and spank us.  We're going to have to build our own if the Bridge can't be expanded which I'm actually fine with.  The designs for the Battersea stadium were magnificent, and even if we can't have that we can extrapolate that Roman wants to do something unique.

Ban rugby.  Football is the national sport.  Steal ground.

I've been to Twickenham for a few rugby matches and it's a pretty nice stadium, but has little in the way of character.  There is no way we'd get it though, for one Six Nations is right in the middle of the Premier League season, and there is usually a Christmas tour for the Southern Hemisphere to come and spank us.  We're going to have to build our own if the Bridge can't be expanded which I'm actually fine with.  The designs for the Battersea stadium were magnificent, and even if we can't have that we can extrapolate that Roman wants to do something unique.

Looking at the BPS designs really depresses me. Would of been a lovely stadium.

 

 

 

Surprised to see so many people consider Twickenham a decent option.

 

Honestly can't think of anything worse.

 

Sharing a rugby stadium that would be half full for your avarage game.

Surprised to see so many people consider Twickenham a decent option.

 

Honestly can't think of anything worse.

 

Sharing a rugby stadium that would be half full for your avarage game.

Tbh I'm not sure if it is sensible - as I said just liked the idea for selfish reasons.  And I was thinking of taking over, not sharing!

People need to stop worrying about the cost of individual match tickets.  That's not going to change or have much of an impact on how big a stadium we need or can fill.  The extra revenue comes from two main sources, 1 is corporate areas, we have nowhere near enough at SB and there's huge money to be made from those.  The other is tourists, a tourist comes into London and wants to see a well known London club play football, currenlty for a lot that's not Chelsea because you can't get tickets easily, those tourists then become attached to the club they've seen, they go home and buy a new kit every year, so do their family and people around them, because these things spread, all of a sudden our world wide fan base increases dramatically meaning even more revenue from marketing in these far flung parts of the world.

 

I reckon Twickers would be great (speacially if they kept all the beer  tents), but it's been ruled out as a football venue due to segregation issues - something that I'm sure could be overcome easily but the RFU aren't interested - they never have been.

People need to stop worrying about the cost of individual match tickets.  That's not going to change or have much of an impact on how big a stadium we need or can fill.  The extra revenue comes from two main sources, 1 is corporate areas, we have nowhere near enough at SB and there's huge money to be made from those.  The other is tourists, a tourist comes into London and wants to see a well known London club play football, currenlty for a lot that's not Chelsea because you can't get tickets easily, those tourists then become attached to the club they've seen, they go home and buy a new kit every year, so do their family and people around them, because these things spread, all of a sudden our world wide fan base increases dramatically meaning even more revenue from marketing in these far flung parts of the world.

 

I reckon Twickers would be great (speacially if they kept all the beer  tents), but it's been ruled out as a football venue due to segregation issues - something that I'm sure could be overcome easily but the RFU aren't interested - they never have been.

 

Where would you have us go then? Realistically?