Blundell Park Capacity

Saw this question asked earlier on, jokingly on this occasion, but since it's inevitably going to crop up once the season starts and the latest debate on ticketing / ground capacity ensues I thought it would be good to get this out of the way nice and early. To help settle this debate once and for all, I spent 5 minutes banging together a little script to extract the number of seats within each block listed on the club's ticketing site (one minor caveat below).

So, what's the capacity? The answer, give or take no more than 10 seats or so, is 8,874. Breakdown below:

Main Stand - 2,414
Pontoon - 1,808
Lower - 808
Upper - 2,004*
Osmond - 1,840 (551 small section, 1,289 larger section)

The one caveat is that it's hard to get an exact number of seats for block D of the upper; the directors / executive area. For the most part, it's identical to block B, but has a small staircase part of the way through the middle of the block, so I've had to guesstimate this as best as possible based on seat numbers and this image (I make it 256).

So there we have it, more or less the exact current capacity of Blundell Park, and a couple of hundred lower than the official figure. It will be interesting to see how close we can get to that once the season starts. Our biggest crowd last season was 8,414 against Forest, which would equate to just shy of 95% of capacity. Practically speaking, it's going to be difficult to top this for a league game you would think, but you never know what might happen if we start well.

It's been full for those big league games Doncaster / Bradford etc , i think every seat is sold for those games , it's impossible to beat that game against Forrest because everyone is effectively a walk up buying a ticket knowing they would actually be there on the night  (minimal no shows ) . Biggest gate in the league was about 8050  - Do they actually count the Exec box bods in the attendance - because your figure -300 in the exec  and 8400 at the Forrest game nearly matches the capacity .

Quoted from Mappers

It's been full for those big league games Doncaster / Bradford etc , i think every seat is sold for those games , it's impossible to beat that game against Forrest because everyone is effectively a walk up buying a ticket knowing they would actually be there on the night  (minimal no shows ) . Biggest gate in the league was about 8050  - Do they actually count the Exec box bods in the attendance - because your figure -300 in the exec  and 8400 at the Forrest game nearly matches the capacity .

Good question most of those seats are freebies so they might not count them.

BUT

Do they count the ones that pay for the executive boxes. ?

Quoted from Poojah

Saw this question asked earlier on, jokingly on this occasion, but since it's inevitably going to crop up once the season starts and the latest debate on ticketing / ground capacity ensues I thought it would be good to get this out of the way nice and early. To help settle this debate once and for all, I spent 5 minutes banging together a little script to extract the number of seats within each block listed on the club's ticketing site (one minor caveat below).

So, what's the capacity? The answer, give or take no more than 10 seats or so, is 8,874. Breakdown below:

Main Stand - 2,414
Pontoon - 1,808
Lower - 808
Upper - 2,004*
Osmond - 1,840 (551 small section, 1,289 larger section)

The one caveat is that it's hard to get an exact number of seats for block D of the upper; the directors / executive area. For the most part, it's identical to block B, but has a small staircase part of the way through the middle of the block, so I've had to guesstimate this as best as possible based on seat numbers and this image (I make it 256).

So there we have it, more or less the exact current capacity of Blundell Park, and a couple of hundred lower than the official figure. It will be interesting to see how close we can get to that once the season starts. Our biggest crowd last season was 8,414 against Forest, which would equate to just shy of 95% of capacity. Practically speaking, it's going to be difficult to top this for a league game you would think, but you never know what might happen if we start well.

But....what about the internal executive boxes themselves.... And the disabled spaces ? 😉

Quoted from moosey_club

But....what about the internal executive boxes themselves.... And the disabled spaces ? 😉

And what about people like me and no doubt countless others , when the QR code does not work and the turnstile operative says 'just leave it' ? Lol .

If you can't give me the exact number I'm no interested  

So why can't I get a ticket on the system pre-match, only for town to announce a 6000 attendance with photos of loads of empty seats

Quoted from GyMariner

So why can't I get a ticket on the system pre-match, only for town to announce a 6000 attendance with photos of loads of empty seats

Because they announce bums on seats , rather than tickets sold and lot's of season ticket holders did not turn up last season or release their tickets - may well be easier this season with around 500 extra walk up seats available .

We need to start a sweepstake to see who gets closest to the official number........IF.......it is ever revealed.

Quoted from Poojah

Saw this question asked earlier on, jokingly on this occasion, but since it's inevitably going to crop up once the season starts and the latest debate on ticketing / ground capacity ensues I thought it would be good to get this out of the way nice and early. To help settle this debate once and for all, I spent 5 minutes banging together a little script to extract the number of seats within each block listed on the club's ticketing site (one minor caveat below).

So, what's the capacity? The answer, give or take no more than 10 seats or so, is 8,874. Breakdown below:

Main Stand - 2,414
Pontoon - 1,808
Lower - 808
Upper - 2,004*
Osmond - 1,840 (551 small section, 1,289 larger section)

The one caveat is that it's hard to get an exact number of seats for block D of the upper; the directors / executive area. For the most part, it's identical to block B, but has a small staircase part of the way through the middle of the block, so I've had to guesstimate this as best as possible based on seat numbers and this image (I make it 256).

So there we have it, more or less the exact current capacity of Blundell Park, and a couple of hundred lower than the official figure. It will be interesting to see how close we can get to that once the season starts. Our biggest crowd last season was 8,414 against Forest, which would equate to just shy of 95% of capacity. Practically speaking, it's going to be difficult to top this for a league game you would think, but you never know what might happen if we start well.

How did you deal with - for example - Block A in the lower, seats G22/3 and E15?  These don't appear to be offered for sale, at least on the Venuetoolbox website.  I think they physically exist.  Could they be set as reserved on the system?  There appear to be other examples dotted about.

Also, did you include seats marked as restricted view?