{"id":45648,"date":"2025-10-07T09:59:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/arsenal-explores-emirates-expansion-more-seats-and-higher-revenue\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:59:41","slug":"arsenal-explores-emirates-expansion-more-seats-and-higher-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/arsenal-explores-emirates-expansion-more-seats-and-higher-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal explores Emirates expansion: More seats and higher revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Arsenal Explores Options for Emirates Stadium Expansion<\/h2>\n\nArsenal are considering various options to expand and renovate the Emirates Stadium, according to sources close to the club.\n\nThe <em>Gunners<\/em> began studying possible improvements more than a year ago, in anticipation of the twentieth anniversary of the first match at the stadium, which will be celebrated next summer.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It would be premature to speak in detail about any plan, but internal conversations about the stadium have already begun. It&#8217;s not a simple renovation, but we see the possibilities that exist.<\/p><cite>Josh Kroenke, Arsenal Co-Chairman<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nInternal conversations have continued, exploring a wide range of options. These range from minor upgrades to a significant expansion that could add thousands of seats to the current capacity of 60,700 spectators.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>VAR analysis: Should Arsenal&#8217;s penalty have been overturned?<\/li><li>\u00d8degaard suffers medial collateral ligament injury and misses Norway call-up<\/li><li>Saka reveals motivational talk from Henry before Arsenal went top<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nSo far, no definitive decision has been made, and discussions remain in the exploration phase.\n\nAny major renovation would face challenges, given the stadium&#8217;s location on a 17-acre site with a nearby railway line and construction restrictions imposed by Islington council.\n\nAn increase in stadium capacity would seek to boost commercial revenue and offer more standard-priced seats, with the aim of reducing the season ticket waiting list, which currently exceeds 100,000 people.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal Explores Options for Emirates Stadium Expansion Arsenal are considering various options to expand and renovate the Emirates Stadium, according to sources close to the club. The Gunners began studying possible improvements more than a year ago, in anticipation of the twentieth anniversary of the first match at the stadium, which will be celebrated next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[140,9540,1240,1184],"class_list":{"0":"post-45648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-emirates-stadium","10":"tag-expansion","11":"tag-renovation"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}