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Blundell Park Capacity

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August 1, 2023, 3:38am
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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.


We have had this discussion before. Towns website gives the following:-

https://gtfc.co.uk/visitors/

Main                 2277
Pontoon           1808
Findus Upper   1982
Findus Lower     826
Osmond          1884

Total                 8777

Wiki quotes     9002

DC stated some months ago of a figure of 9030

So take your pick as to the official capacity, and as pointed out on the above posts does it include executive seating, disabled seating etc.?


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So between 8000 and 9000…

Average gate read out in the ground of about 6900 incoming then.


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It doesn't matter whether Blundell Park's capacity is 8777, 8874, 9002 or 9030.  It is still 6000 less than the minimum you would want for the Championship.  I don't think the council would give permission for that.
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After counting up all the seats on the ticketing site i got:

Pontoon: 1821.
Main Stand:  2422.
Lower Findus: 826.
Uppper Findus:  1712*
Osmond Home Corner. 551.
Osmond Away. 1333.

*All seats in the ground were counted including restricted views..  The only seats not counted were executive block in Upper Findus...  My estimate was 269.

Total for the entire ground was: 8934 which included the executive block.
I did this to satisfy my own curiosity and to get a better picture of our home seat sales...
I wish we would give out our attendance figures based on seat sales rather than who attends. After all its the seat sold that counts and which brings in the money.
If we did that we would have a better idea what seats were available. This would show our attendance figure is much higher and just how few tickets are left and further show how much we need to expand the ground.
Last season there were only odds and sods tickets available for most home matches and non available for familes or groups for most matches... This was in the main due to STH not turning up, but whether they turn up or not the money is still coming in and we most certainly need more seats...
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It doesn't matter whether Blundell Park's capacity is 8777, 8874, 9002 or 9030.  It is still 6000 less than the minimum you would want for the Championship.  I don't think the council would give permission for that.


Well, working on the numbers you think are right, we’ve got at least two seasons to convince them…plenty of time…


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It doesn't matter whether Blundell Park's capacity is 8777, 8874, 9002 or 9030.  It is still 6000 less than the minimum you would want for the Championship.  I don't think the council would give permission for that.


I'm not so sure , I like the Rotherham stadium much more than the Doncaster , MK Dons or to the extreme Darlington .

Trying to keep it an intimidating atmosphere in a stadium that's not half (at best) full most the of the time would be my preference - 11 or 12k is about right for us I think in terms of capacity with around 2.5k away tickets available ; you could argue In the Champ or even league 1 there would be teams that could bring 5k + to increase income but you are then taking away the home advantage - last season for 5 games I think away fans outnumbered home fans at that MK dons stadium .

If it's possible to do that at BP and improve commercial revenue , with keeping a touch of the traditional element with a modern twist I would be much more for that than a souless ikea type stadium , I actually think a lot of fans of other teams would rather have a ground like BP than be in there identikit arenas .
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Back in 1995 when the stadium was converted to all seater and for years after the figure always quoted was 8,750.
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In the official league handbook it is listed as 9,052. Which I am guessing is the stands + the box seats total number
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Some are in debate on Twitter space about BP capacity saying it's 9 odd k - I'm going to refer to this for official capacity saying The Fishies counted the seats
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